DIET PLANS FOR YOU

DIET PLANS FOR YOU

Fit for Life was a book written in the early '80s by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. The authors are believers in a type of "food combining" whose theory states that when foods are combined inappropriately, they become "rotten" and cannot be absorbed from the intestinal tract. This toxifies the body and makes people fat.

Specific guidelines are given for types of foods to eat throughout the day. 70% of the eating routine depends on leafy foods, while dairy items and meats are seriously restricted. Weight loss results from improved digestion and is not based on counting calories or grams of fat.

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Diet Guidelines

In this program, eating foods in specific combinations at certain times of the day is meant to result in increased energy and natural weight reduction.

Basically, fruit should be eaten from the time you get up until noon because it helps to cleanse the system and move things along. Fruit should never be eaten with anything else. For lunch and dinner, you can either have a carbs-based meal which would be grains, beans, and veggies, or a protein meal, which would be protein and veggies. You should never combine a carb and a protein as they "fight" in the stomach and then become toxic. Dairy foods and refined sugar is banned and although fruit is good, it must not be consumed at the end of a meal.

How Does It Work?

Fit for Life asserts that people gain weight, not because of overeating and too little exercise, but because they wrongly combine protein-rich foods with starchy foods. Fit for Life says our digestive tracts cannot assimilate more than one of these "concentrated foods" at a time, since the enzymes that digest protein nullify the enzymes that digest carbohydrates, and vice versa.

Good Sides of Diets

You can eat as much of the specific foods as you wish; there is never a reason to measure portions or worry about calorie intake. Weight loss tends to be rapid due to the elimination of many higher-calorie foods.

What Is Bad About The Diet?

Fit for Life does not look like a balanced diet program. Food combining may create deficiencies in zinc, vitamin D, vitamin B12, and possibly protein since the diet limits animal protein and bans dairy products. The ban on dairy foods certainly jeopardizes calcium intake, as dairy products account for over 70 percent of the calcium in the American diet. So it's not a healthy diet for life. The diet is a difficult diet to follow and hard to incorporate with family or friends. The diet plan is confusing about what foods can/cannot be combined.