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You eat your favorite foods without counting calories, deprivation, or cravings. All you do is sprinkle everything you eat with flavor-enhancing Sensa crystals, and you'll lose weight, say advertisements promoting Sensa.
Alan Hirsch, MD, founder and neurologic director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, developed Sensa crystals or "tastants" that promote feelings of fullness and, ultimately, weight loss. If you stick with Sensa, you could lose 30 pounds in six months, according to the company web site.

What Is the Sensa Diet?

While it's sometimes called "The Sprinkle Diet," the Sensa weight loss method is not a diet per se.
Sensa sprinkles are food flakes made from maltodextrin, tricalcium phosphate, silica, and flavors.  You sprinkle them on food as you would salt or sugar, and they enhance scent while adding  either a mildly salty or sweet taste. Savory flavors include cheddar cheese, onion, horseradish, ranch dressing, taco, and Parmesan cheese. Sweet flavors are cocoa, spearmint, banana strawberry, raspberry, and malt.
All the tastants are calorie-free, sugar-free, and sodium-free.  
Sensa is intended to work with your sense of smell, fooling your brain and stomach into thinking you're full, Hirsch says. He uses the term "sensory-specific satiety" to describe the process by which smell receptors send messages of fullness to your brain.
"The flavors may make people focus on the sensory characteristics of food -- smell and taste -- and can actually cause a change in eating habits and behavior," Hirsch tells WebMD 
A one-month Sensa starter kit costing $59, and a 6-month kit at an introductory rate of $235, are available on the Sensa web site.  (The Consumer Affairs web site cautions dieters that the free trial is associated with an automatic enrollment plan, and incurs an additional charge of $89.99 if you don't send all of the product back within 30 days.)

Does SENSA Actually Work? 

Well, if you look around on the net you’ll find a wealth of Sensa weight loss information, advertising, reviews, etc., with some suggesting that Sensa is the best thing since sliced bread in terms of weight loss. But questions need to be asked as some claims seem too good to be true.

They state that Sensa is ‘clinically proven’ to work – this is not entirely true. In fact, Dr. Hirsch maintains that there was a ‘study’ reviewed by peers of The Endocrine Society supporting the claim that test subjects lost 30lbs+ using Sensa, yet The Endocrine Society says they never reviewed such a study.

Also mentioned that they were “surprised and troubled by the promotional nature of his presentation” on ABC news in 2008.
Reviews on Sensa weight loss are a dime a dozen. Many reviews are of a negative nature and claim that the Sensa diet doesn’t work, but there are those who say that it works wonders. Combing through these carefully though, one almost gets the feeling that people were paid to write these ‘high-flying’ Sensa comments.

So does Sensa work then? Well, judging by the lack of scientific evidence and growing dreadful user reviews found on Amazon and other locations, probably not. And if you’re planning to buy Sensa, It is probably a good idea to do your homework as there seems to be talk of a Sensa weight loss billing scam as well.

Judging by the statistics that are given above i would say that "Sensa" reporters abuse the statistics of thier advertisement!

Sources: http://www.reinventingaging.org/diet/sensa/sensa/ 
                http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/truth-about-sensa

Andrea Yates "A Cry in the Dark"

1.) Andrea Yates was just a normal woman taking care of her famly until she gave birth to her fourth child Luke. Soon after giving birth to Luke, Andrea tried to commit suicide twice. The first time on an overdosage of her fathers perscriptions, and the second time tried to stab herself in the neck with a knife.  She was admitted to Memorial Spring Shadows Glen hospital and was diagnosed with the disease Postpartum Psychosis.  The doctors put her on medication and it helped tramendously and everything became normal again. Andrea dicided she wanted to have another child so was taken off of her medication. Soon after giving birth to her fifth child Mary. Seven months later she she drown all of her children because she thought satan was after them. She was sentenced to life in prison for drowning three of her five children and is not able for parole for forty years.

2.) I think, in her mind, she was trying to save her children. I do not think she wanted to kill her children, but i think she thought it was the only way to keep satan from them. So in a way she ment to kill them, but not in way of wanting to get rid of them.

3.) I think she was mentally insane at the time because she said she was hearing voices in her sleep and she thought she was bad for her children. From what i can tell she loved her children and to me if you love your children you should do whatever it takes to take care of them.

4.) Her husband seems like he cared for her, but to me if he truly cared for her health he should have kept her in that hospital until she was truly herself again. Instead he wanted her home. He also left her by herself knowing that she has tried to kill her twice and leaving her in the state she was in by herself with the five children. To me he should have taken off of work and stayed with her if he wanted her to stay at the house.

5.) I feel the reason that she killed her children is that she felt herself to be a bad parent. She would say that the devil was inside of her and was going to get her children.  After two failed attemps at suicide I think that she felt her only way to pertect all five of her children from the devil was to kill them to keep the devil away from them.

6.) As a society I feel we can learn more from the disease and make sure you keep a watchful eye on the patients who have this disease and pay attention to what the patient really needs. I feel that the patient should talk to someone regularly and alert the family if the patient says anything that might should be dicussed within the family.