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My First Time

Lissa Rankin, January 10, 2012

When I first thought about doing a green juice detox cleanse three years ago, my first thought was “No way in hell.” After all, I’m a total foodie, I like my wine, and giving up food flashed me back to a decade of deprivation during medical school and residency, when I was lucky to get one meal a day because I was too busy working my ass off to eat.

10 Reasons People Don't Cleanse (And Why You Need To Get Over Them!)

Lissa Rankin, January 3, 2012

Lissa Rankin

My inbox has been jammed and my phone has been ringing off the hook since my green juice cleanse teacher Tricia Barrett and I officially launched the Pink & Green Detox Cleanse yesterday. (Check out what I’m talking about here).

The HCG Diet Fraud

Lissa Rankin, March 13, 2011

HCG diet

No! Not again! Stop the madness!

I live in Marin County, the land of the fit, thin, and affluent, so the ads for the recently revived but long ago unproven HCG diet abound. “LOSE 40 POUNDS AND YOUR BELLY FAT IN 6 WEEKS WITHOUT HUNGER, AND KEEP IT OFF!” As an MD who ran an integrative medicine center before switching to a coaching practice, I just have one thing to say. Bullshit.

Hear me out.