Whats Wrong With The Beverly Hills Diet?
It’s supposed to be the secret of Hollywood stars, or so claims Judy Mazel, author of “The Beverly Hills Diet” which previously made it to the bestseller lists of both the New York Times and Time magazine. In her diet plan, Mazel said you can lose weight without feeling hungry. That’s because you can eat all the ice cream, steak or whatever you want and leave the rest to the body’s powerful enzymes which supposedly burn away fat. Mazel’s incredible weight loss strategy is to “lose weight by feeding the body, not by starving it.” Fat, she says, comes from undigested food and one way of fighting it is to properly combine foods. Proteins should be eaten only with other proteins and fats; carbohydrates should be taken only with other carbohydrates and fats; while fruits should be eaten alone. Once you know this, you can eat like a whale and not gain weight, she claims. However, Mazel’s diet is really very restrictive. For the first 10 days, the dieter is advised to eat nothing but fruits,
