Judy Mazel published the Beverly Hills Diet book in 1981. The diet is based on the concept that the body requires enzymes found in certain foods to digest food properly. The author believes that if food is not digested, it gets converted into body fat. A strange belief, because the body cannot metabolize food until it has first been digested!
The Beverly Hills Diet Plan
The plan is based on a principle called "conscious combining". Fruit is the main food group of the diet, but the diet has vegetable-only days, fruit-only days and other days when some starchy carbohydrates are allowed.
Breakfast
8 oz prunes
Lunch
Unlimited strawberries
Dinner
Baked potato
Drinks
Water, coffee or tea
Diet Summary
This diet is very low in daily calories (about 800), proteins and other nutrients. The diet theory is completely unproven. The promised weight loss is 15 pounds in 35 days.
It would be very difficult to maintain such a diet.
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