What You Need To Know About The Beverly Hills Diet Plan

The Basics

The Beverly Hills diet is a combination diet that relies on specific chemical reactions within the body. The main assumption is that enzymes found in food "activate" the human body. It says that the enzymes necessary for digestion are found in the foods themselves. Certain fruits create specific reactions in your body: papaya softens fat, pineapple burns it off, and watermelon flushes it out of the body.

Things to Eat

For the most part you eat fruit by itself and never mix it with proteins. This way the food is properly digested.

Ideally, proteins go with proteins; carbohydrates go with carbohydrates; fruit must be eaten alone.

You are suppose to begin each day with a single enzymatic fruit from the list of fruits included in the plan -- i.e., pineapple, strawberries, grapes, papaya, watermelon, mango, kiwi, persimmon, prunes, apricots or figs. You may eat as much of the fruit as you want, but eat just one fruit at a time -- don't mix grapes with strawberries, for example. They tell you to wait one hour before switching from one fruit to another fruit.

You should wait two hours before eating food from another food group. Once you eat food from another food group, do not eat fruit again for the remainder of the day.

If the next food you eat after fruit is a carbohydrate, you may eat them without restriction until you eat a protein. Once you eat protein, no matter how small the amount -- even if it is just milk in your coffee or chicken in your Caesar salad -- 80 percent of what you eat for the balance of the day should be protein.

Why They Claim It Works?

The diet is mainly based on fruit which, it claims, contains the enzymes that can activate the human body's metabolism to burn fat faster, while combining a protein with a carbohydrate can destroy the enzymes which slow down the process causing an increase in body fat.

Some Opinions I Found

The Beverly Hills diet does not live up to its promises of being healthy, preventing disease, detoxing and rapid weight loss. It is very unhealthy and unsafe. There may be some weight loss but there are a variety of different diets around that are far healthier and easier to follow.

The Beverly Hills diet fails to tackle the issue of portion control or exercise, both of which are directly relevant to any successful weight loss program.

Its results are questionable. You can lose a lot of weight initially, but the rapid weight loss may end in health complications. The Beverly Hills diet is also very low in protein and misses some essential vitamins and nutrients.

My Thoughts

I recommend caution with any diet paln that directs you to rely heavily on one type of food. In this case, fruit.

I think there may be health issues thay may result with this diet. I would not recommend this one.


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