I guess all I can say is Welcome Visitors! Enjoy dietofcorn!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
This is getting weird
When we started this I think we assumed about 13 people would read this. Obviously, things have gotten a bit bigger than we anticipated.
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Hey there - I go to University of Pittsburgh and few of my friends from our club the Pitt Geeks (http://forums.pittgeeks.org) were going to do this same thing right after finals week. However, after consulting with a friend who is a doctor, they were told it would be very unsafe for them to do this. Something about permanent damage to the digestive tract and stomach and lack of calories.
So I guess all I am saying is if you're having any problems (other than pooping just corn) GO SEE A DOCTOR!!
- Adam
My main motivation for doing this stunt was that people made so many ridiculous claims like this one (nothing personal, thanks for visiting).
The lack of calories is a real problem but not eating doesn't damage your digestive tract. You certainly won't starve in a week. In fact I've come to think of this experiment as starving with occasional corn snacks.
Your stomach and intestines don't have memory, they don't know they had corn yesterday or the day before that.
A long term diet of only corn would definitely leave you missing many nutrients, minerals, and essential amino acids but it would take quite a while for that to be a problem.
I don't think the issue was with the lack of nutrients, I think it was because corn cleans you out under normal circumstances and when there is nothing else inside of you, there's a chance it could damage your intestinal lining or colon.
Anyways, I think it's awesome! Good job keeping discipline, must be tough.
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