Old Beverly Hills Diet

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Judy Mazel published her first book, The Beverly Hills Diet (MacMillan Publishing) in 1981. Since then, she has published new versions of the book under new names such as The New Beverly Hills Diet Little Skinny Companion in 1984, 1987, 1996, and 1997.

The original diet was a high carbohydrate, low protein regime with very low calorie content. The new versions are less extreme than the original diet. Mazel’s theory was that the body needs certain enzymes to digest food. If you don’t eat the right enzymes, your body turns what you eat into fat. She talks about “food combining” and “conscious combining” because her diet requires that you eat certain foods in certain combinations, usually nuts and fruit, and that you never mix fruit and protein. Mazel believes that if you mix certain foods, you “confuse the enzymes” and thus gain weight.

The first ten days you are allowed to eat only fruit. On days eleven until nineteen, you eat only carbohydrates, sometimes fruit only and sometimes vegetables only, and no animal proteins. On day twenty, you can eat animal proteins. The Beverly Hills Diet lasts forty-five very food-restrictive days.

Created: 1981

Categories: One Food, Fad, Celebrity

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Meetings: No

Books: Yes

Sample Menu:

A typical day’s menu looks like this (see http://www.everydiet.org/beverly_hills_diet.htm )

Breakfast

8oz prunes

Lunch

Unlimited strawberries

Dinner

Baked potato

Drinks

Water, coffee, or tea

THE NEW BEVERLY HILLS DIET

Judy Mazel revamped her diet in 1996, when she wrote The New Beverly Hills Diet. She stands by her theory that food combinations make you fat, and that the idea of having “three square meals a day” leads to obesity. She believes that if you eat a food that digests slowly, such as a pork chop, along with a food that digests quickly such as bread, the bread gets “trapped” behind the slow digesting pork chop and makes you gain weight.

The New Beverly Hills Diet lasts only 35 days, and allows you more food choices than the original version.

Every day, you begin by eating “enzymatic fruits” such as pineapple, strawberries, grapes or watermelon. You can have as much as you want, but you have to wait an hour before introducing a new fruit and you cannot mix them. If you want to eat something from the fat, carbohydrate or protein food groups, you have to wait two hours. Once you eat something other than fruit, you can’t have any more fruit on that day. If you choose to eat a carb, you can keep eating carbs until you eat a protein. After you eat a protein, then 80% of all the food you eat the rest of that day must be proteins. Carbs, which she defines as salad, vegetables, cereals, and grains , cannot mix with proteins, which includes fish, meat, nuts, yogurt, seeds, cheese and even ice cream. Mazel’s rules are very strict. For instance, the milk in your coffee counts as a protein so that activates the 80% rule.

Here are the first three days on the New Beverly Hills Diet:

DAY 1

Pineapple
Corn on the cob
Salad (1 head of lettuce, 2 cucumbers, 4 tomatoes and a Spanish onion) with dressing made from 1 cup sesame oil, ¼ cup rice vinegar, garlic and ginger

DAY 2
Prunes (8 oz.)
Strawberries
Baked potatoes

DAY 3
Grapes

Mazel suggests “recoup days” for dieters who fall off the wagon or suddenly gain weight. This is the four-day recoup regime:

Day 1

Pineapple; papaya, pineapple

Day 2

Watermelon

Day 3

Prunes, strawberries, baked potatoes, spinach cooked in oil

Day 4

Grapes

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