There’s an article circulating the net on a 1,000-calorie diet consisting of apple cider vinegar, lecithin and B-6. The diet involves lecithin granules mixed with orange juice and milk, and apple cider vinegar with a glass of water after each meal. As supplements, kelp tablets with apple cider, B complex and vitamin B-6. If you want to try this diet, think again.
A response from a popular nutritionist with a column on The Times had this to say (not quoted).
He does not approve of any adult diet that goes lower than 1,200 calories per day, without any supervision of a professional doctor. The 1,000-calorie boundary for the apple cider diet will surely result in vitamin and nutrient deficiencies.
No doubt, the diet will lose practitioners major pounds, but you will surely lose your health along it. He goes on to say that there is nothing in cider and water that causes weight loss. It can, at times, help to keep one feeling full. But, he goes on to add that water usually just passes through the stomach and that fulness feeling will not last very long.
Lecithin sprinkled on orange juice and drinks does nothing as well. Lecithin is a compound of fatty acids with some phosphorus and trace amounts of other nutrients, which can be found in normal, healthy foods anyway. Blood lecithin comes from the liver and not from taking lecithin itself.
Kelp is the same way. It will not help you in any way except if you have an iodine deficiency.
Proper diet loses fat, not pounds, or worse, muscles and body tissue. Healthy diets do not put the body at risk. This apple cider vinegar diet is nothing but another one of those fad diets.