I like the self esteem/change of attitude Peter Arnell proposes but his diet seems to be like an old fashioned Vitamin C Flush. Remember that diet?
If an average size orange contains 70 mg of vitamin C and an adult male requires 90 mg per day and an average adult female requires about 75 mg per day then Arnell is way over the required daily dose.
A tolerable upper intake level for both Male/Female is 2000 mg per day.
20 oranges per day
70 mg x 20 = 1,400 mg
30 oranges per day
70 mg x30 = 2,100 mg
For me, this would be intolerable. The acid would wreck havoc with my digestive system. I’d have cankers in my mouth and an irritable bowel. And that's alot of calories albeit natural sugar!
Here is an article from 2007 published in a Men's Health Magazine.
"How a sugar-free diet helped advertising’s It man, Peter Arnell, lose 250 pounds
(content preserved from Best Life magazine, Mar 2007 issue ,
since that link will no doubt disappear within a year or so)
Utter the phrase “larger than life” on Madison Avenue and everyone within earshot will likely think of the same man: Peter Arnell. For more than two decades, the 48-year-old brand inventor has uniquely reshaped the very concept of brand marketing, revitalizing the identities of companies such as Reebok, Banana Republic, and Samsung. But until a few years ago, his supersize reputation wasn’t based solely on marketing genius.
“This is from when I weighed 350 pounds,” says Arnell, holding up a size-60 suit jacket. He had already lost 50 pounds by the time he purchased it in 2001. A lifetime of skipping exercise and eating “Caesaresque” portions of knishes and tongue sandwiches had padded his 5-foot-9 frame with a blubbery 400 pounds. “It was embarrassing,” says Arnell. “I used to leave meetings wondering what people were thinking of me.”
Fed up, he sought the help of Louis Aronne, M.D., director of Cornell’s Comprehensive Weight Control Program. The diet doc’s advice was threefold: Arnell had to reduce his caloric intake to 1,800 calories a day, eliminate sugars and starches from his diet, and organize his meals around complex carbs like vegetables and whole grains. Dr. Aronne hoped to stabilize Arnell’s blood sugar levels, preventing the spikes in insulin that cause food cravings.
Of course, Arnell also had to exercise, working his way up to 45 minutes a day three days a week. And the diet and fitness plan worked. “People don’t believe me when I tell them how much I weighed,” says the 150-pound Arnell, who recently teamed up with Muhammad Ali to create the G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time) brand of vitamin-rich, low-calorie snacks for kids.
The Plan
What Peter Arnell eats to keep the weight off:
Breakfast: 7 a.m.
• 1/2 cup All-Bran cereal with 4 oz. soy milk
• 20 oz. water
Snack: 10 a.m.
• 10 oranges
• small plate of seaweed
Lunch: 2 p.m.
• large plate of grilled vegetables with garlic
• 20 oz. sencha green tea
• 20 oz. water
Snack: 4 p.m.
• 10 oranges
• 20 oz. sencha green tea
Dinner 7 p.m.
• 6 oz. seared tuna (no oil)
• arugula salad with cherry tomatoes and capers
• broccoli rabe (sautéed in garlic with no oil)
• side of asparagus
• shot of Italian espresso
NOTE: We repeatedly see (in newspapers, magazines, and internet articles)
quotes from dieticians and doctors that claim "low-carbohydrate" diets
(i.e. low-sugar and low-starch diets) are FAD diets and do not work.
It seems those professionals choose to ignore repeated instances of
successes by dieters --- and they choose to ignore diet plans promoted by
some of their medical colleagues, such as Dr. Louis Aronne, director of
Cornell's Comprehensive Weight Control Program.
(Although Arnell's diet seems to be drug-free, if you do a web search
on Aronne, you will find that he has advocated for several drugs, like
Xenical, and he has done research for Abbott Labs. One drug he has
advocated, Meridia, has been under fire for possibly causing multiple
deaths. It is encouraging that Arnell seems to have achieved his
weight loss without the use of drugs. Drug side effects are of concern.")
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