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No pun intended, but this has got to be one of the crappiest diet ideas to come along in a long time. All juice diets fail, because juicing bypasses part of the digestive process and juicing consequently provides you with faster assimilation of carbohydrates. This means you have a greater insulin response and store more carbohydrates as fat instead of using them properly.

What's especially insidious about the prune juice diet is its laxative effect. People watching their weight drop on the scale congratulate themselves on this diet, but they aren't watching fat loss. They are seeing a loss of water and solid waste material, all of which will come back once the diet is done.

Meanwhile, they are putting themselves into a nutrient-deprivation mode that compromises healthy tissue while triggering the body's fat preservation response.

The resultant dehydration will further compromise the health and fitness progress of anyone embarking on this absurd diet.

The only positive effect of this diet is the extra exercise you get running to the toilet. Other than that, this diet's a load of crap. In more ways than one.