What is The Mayo Clinic Diet Plan?
The Mayo Clinic Diet Plan has a weight loss component, but good health is the goal of the overall plan. Step 4 on this plan does discuss weight loss in detail and works by following these steps: • Weighing yourself • Determining a weight goal • Identifying a calorie level for weight loss • Learning daily servings of each food group appropriate for your calorie level • Adding exercise when you are ready Maybe you’ve feared that you need to start carrying a calculator. Not on this diet. Unlike other similar diets, all the calculations have already been done for you. Just by knowing your weight and gender you can figure out your calorie level and food servings by consulting a comprehensive chart in the book. The Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid, the basis for the plan, includes six food groups. You can eat fruits and vegetables, with virtually no restrictions. You will want to consume only limited quantities of juice and dried fruit. The remaining groups are carbohydrates, especially un
