Want to eat spaghetti and meatballs and not get fat?
That is possible provided you eat them separately with a considerable time gap, states the Beverly hills diet. This fad diet was introduced by Judy Mazel, who decided to share the techniques she used to get rid of her 72 pounds.
Her concept revolved around the idea that eating wrong food combinations eg, eating protein with carbs makes it hard for our body to fully digest the food which causes fattening. So her diet plan revolves around consuming only a fruit-based diet for 35 days and then adding in proteins, fat and carbs slowly under strict rules of how to pair these three categories.
So here is a summary of the diet plan.
- Start your day with a fruit, eat to your fill, and prefer enzymatic fruits. If you want to eat some other fruit then wait for an hour after eating the first type of fruit.
- If you want to eat protein or carbs then do so two hours after the last bite of your fruit.
- Carbs can only be eaten with carbs and fat. Protein is to be eaten only with protein or fat. You can never combine carbs with proteins so forget about hamburgers or fish and chips.
- No artificial sweeteners or sodas are allowed.
- Most beverages are carbs however wine is considered a fruit.
This diet has so many scientific inaccuracies that we had to explain them all under the myths section.
Myths Busted:
According to Judy Mazel, fattening is a result of making wrong food combinations which then aren’t digested properly by our bodies and so the undigested remains of our food within our bodies, remain within and make us fat.
This is where she got her basics wrong, which should come as no surprise considering she is neither a dietician nor a medical professional. What is even more shocking is that, without any training in science or nutrition, she managed to run a weight-loss clinic based merely on the central concept of how she lost 72 pounds.
This ridiculous concept presented by an armchair “expert” contradicts the already existing knowledge about food and the body. We have quoted the reviews of some well-known doctors and dieticians for you to have a thorough understanding of how inaccurate this diet is.
As stated by Dr Gabe Mirkin of the University of Maryland and Dr Ronald Shore of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,
”Not only is there no scientific evidence to support this diet plan, but it also contradicts established medical knowledge about nutrition,”
The doctors stated that the undigested food is passed out of the body through faeces and adds no nutritional value or calories to our body which according to Dr Mirkin and Dr Shore,
”Contrary to the main contention of the Beverly Hills diet, then, it is the digested food that has the potential to make you fat, because undigested food cannot possibly be fattening”.
The doctors also corrected that enzymatic fruits have no role in aiding the process of digestion. So all these quotations from authentic and professional sources strongly suggest that the fundamental concept of this diet is nothing but rubbish.
This can help you lose weight, but that comes with a list of cons and absolutely 0 positive influence on your health.
Here is a list of the health risks this diet has.
Health Risks:
To begin with, this diet has been designed by someone who is not medically trained and has a completely wrong take on the most basic concepts about weight gain and weight loss.
Secondly, this diet requires the dieters to consume more and more fruits and limits them to only a minimal amount of salt. This can increase the sugar levels in the blood and low body salt levels can induce severe water loss by diarrhoea.
This can cause severe muscle fatigue, exhaustion, and anxiety, and that is not all, in serious conditions, this can even drop the blood pressure to such a low level that it may disturb the circulation of blood.
Restricted intake of protein and carbs can result in mineral and vitamin deficiencies leading to poor stamina, and skin and hair issues.
Not all areas enjoy fresh fruit supply so in that case, this might get tough for you and your pocket.
Also, because this diet plan includes such high levels of fruit intake, this is not at all suitable for diabetic patients.
And most importantly there is absolutely nill scientific backing for this diet.
A Word of Caution:
Before checking the credibility of a diet, make sure to check the credibility of the source that created our introduced you to that particular diet.
Any noob, who’s trying to sell you a plan that they created, is someone you need to stay away from.
Before you sign up for any particular meal plan or diet that promises weight loss, make sure to consult your physician first.
This is required because we all have different physical tendencies and requirements and following the footsteps of another person blindly might not be a wise choice.