Can anyone comment on the Isagenix products? I work in a place where everyone seems to be jumping on that bandwagon. I'm curious and skeptical.
At the outset let me be quite clear that I have zero personal experience with these products, in fact I had never heard of them before....perhaps because I have always used the 'eat everything' diet as outlined in the article that leads this thread, I have never had a weight problem and so have never looked into any dieting products.
What I did was a quick web search with the keywords "isagenix" and "scam"....after the first couple of pages of junk hits, I got to some discussion boards where people were talking about Isagenix. It seems to be sold via a MLM or Multi-Level Marketing arrangement, where people who are selling it and want to make money have to continually recruit new "victims" to also sell the products in order make money....it sounds almost like a pyramid setup, and this explains the 'hype' that you mention where "everybody is jumping on the bandwagon". People selling it HAVE to generate hype in order to recruit and therefore maintain their income. Isagenix has a panel of doctors who rave about it's effectiveness and they have some celebrity endorsements, including, apparently, the Osmonds who also sing it's praises.
After I got this far I lost interest in pursuing it further because it doesn't pass the 'smell test' to me, given those findings.
I would encourage you to do a similar search, as I got the info that I did after less than five minutes.
If someone is hyping a medically-related product to you, find out if there are any articles about it in well-established peer-reviewed medical journals, not advertisements or interviews with celebrity shills.
My advice? Eat everything, eat less, exercise more and live your life.