DIET PLANS FOR YOU--BEVERELY HILLS DIET

 DIET PLANS FOR YOU--BEVERLY HILLS DIET

The Beverly Hills diet may be a food combining diet that relies heavily on fruits. According to the diet, papaya softens body fat, pineapple burns it off and watermelon flushes it out of the body.

Judy Mazel, actress and founder of the diet plan, promises not only that you'll lose weight, but that you'll be "skinny." The problem is she chooses a slightly different way of combining foods - there are days where all you can eat are grapes; on other days you can only have melon.

Diet Rules

The diet recommends eating fruit by itself and never eating protein with carbohydrates in order for food to be properly digested and not stored as body fat.

Begins with a 35-day plan that gives specific items to be eaten at each meal, without counting calories or grams of fat.

In the first 10 days, only fruits are permitted

From the 11th day to the 18th day, you eat a half-pound of bread, two tablespoons of butter, and three ears of corn

On day 19, complete protein food are added

Fatty treats are permitted like cheesecake and ice cream.

3 Day Food Plan

The foods below are listed in a very specific order. This order lists them within the sequence during which they're to be eaten. Don't switch them around or skip any. If a selected amount is listed, you want to eat that quantity.

Remember, this is not a three-meal-a-day plan. You aren't confined to breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You may stop and begin as you would like, but don't continue to subsequent food listed until you've got finished the specified amount of the primary.

You will shed pounds by taking care of your body, not by starving it. If a food is listed and an amount isn't shown, then you'll eat the maximum amount of that food as you would like. There are no restrictions. With fruit, especially, the more you eat the more you'll lose.

DAY 1:

Pineapple

Corn on the cob

LTO salad with Mazel dressing

LTO Salad

1 large, firm head iceberg lettuce

1-2 cucumbers, peeled

4 tomatoes

1 large red or Spanish onion, peeled

Mazel dressing or olive oil

With a pointy knife, cut all vegetables into good-sized chunks. Toss with dressing or oil.

YIELD: 2 servings

Mazel Dressing

1/4 cup rice vinegar

1 cup sesame oil

1-2 small cloves chopped garlic, to taste

Chopped or grated ginger, to taste

Freshly ground pepper

Combine all ingredients.

YIELD: 1 1/4 cups

DAY 2:

Prunes (8 oz.)

Strawberries

Baked potatoes

DAY 3:

Grapes

Overall

The New Beverly Hills Diet is a very unbalanced way of eating. It is very low in vital nutrients and the Journal of the American Medical Association deemed it "the worst entry in the diet-fad derby". It may also cause diarrhea and because it's low in protein, it promotes the breakdown of muscles and vital organ tissue if followed for longer than 10 days.