THE DIET: The New Beverly Hills Diet by Judy Mazel
THE CLAIM: Combine or separate certain foods so your body will thoroughly digest every nutrient in each food. This will make you leaner because your stomach and intestines won't create any fatty buildup.
WHAT YOU EAT: During the first 2 days of a 35-day diet, you eat pineapple; corn on the cob; an entire head of iceberg lettuce, tomato and onion salad; prunes; strawberries and baked potatoes. You spend the third day gorging on grapes — just grapes — all day. The list of other foods you can eat is extremely limited and merely prolongs what is actually a modified fast.
BUT OFFICER, THAT'S A FOOD GROUP ON MY BREATH: Mazel divides food into three main nutrient groups: protein, carbohydrates and fruit. This imaginative restructuring of the food pyramid counts ice cream as protein and wine as fruit. Susan Kleiner, Ph.D., R.D., a regular columnist for Physician and Sportsmedicine and a nutrition consultant to professional athletes and sports teams, is familiar with both Mazel's original book and her updated version. Kleiner says, "It was creative writing then and it's creative writing now."
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