Popular Low Calorie Low Carb Diet Under Investigation

I read tonight with interest that the popular diet "Kimkins" with it's web site Kimkins.com and well known founder ("Kimmer") are reportedly now under investigation for potentially fraudulent claims and at least questionable (and potentially seriously unhealthful) advice given.

This has been the source of a bit of an uproar in the low carb Internet community as some have expressed serious suspicions about some of the the founders (supposed) pictures that looked a little fishy. Also some popular low carbers I assume in good faith jumped on the bandwagon and tried this diet approach as well, lending support to the diet that only fueled the fire of criticism by others.

Basically, if what I read is true (in various venues online), even some of the most ardent supporters of this diet, and even some former business partners are now revealing startling information about the founder and the program, and are turning against both publicly.

I have tried to be supportive of some of my low carb friends in the middle of all this broohaha. But now it looks like the truth may be coming out, and it isn't very pretty.

Evidently, a private investigator has produced pictures of "Kimmer" that appear to demonstrate that if Kimmer has ever lost such significant weight as she has claimed in the past, it hasn't taken hold over the long run - at least at present she appears to be a morbidly obese woman pretending/claiming to be someone she isn't. At least that's what things appear like in the stories and pictures linked below:

http://www.slamboard.com/2007/09/05/heidi-diaz-kimmer-of-kimkins-surveillance-picture/

http://www.slamboard.com/2007/09/05/more-surveillance-photos-of-kimkins-kimmer/

http://www.slamboard.com/2007/09/05/surveillance-pics-of-heidi-diaz-kimmer-at-the-kimkinscom-post-office-box/

Wow! I am speechless! Shocking!!!