BROWSE DIETS

Beverly Hills Diet

The Beverly Hills Diet was a diet book originally published in 1981 by Judy Mazel. It has since been revised, and re-released as the New Beverly Hills Diet.

The diet is based on a theory that the body needs the enzymes found in certain foods in order to digest the food properly. The author believes that when food isn’t digested, it turns to body fat. A strange belief because the body cannot metabolize the food until it has first been digested!

The Beverly Hills Diet Plan

The diet is based on a food combining principle (called conscious-combining). The main food group of the diet is fruit, but the diet has vegetable-only days, fruit-only days, and other days when some starchy carbohydrate is allowed.

Breakfast
8oz prunes

Lunch
Unlimited strawberries

Dinner

Baked potato

Drinks
Water, coffee, or tea.

More all fruit recipes can be found here.

Diet Summary

This diet is dangerously low in daily calories (about 800), and also low in proteins, and many many other nutrients. The theory behind is completely unproven, and fantastical. The promised weight loss is 15 pounds in 35 days.

It would be very difficult to sustain such a diet without become deficient in certain nutrients, or simply putting the weight back on after the diet.

Not to be tried.

User Reviews

  • Julia
    June 26th, 2009

    oh, by the way - I used to have headaches and pimples. Headache’s gone, skin looks totally different already!

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  • Julia
    June 26th, 2009

    Hi! Today it has been my 12th day of the diet. So far I’ve lost 13 pounds (I was roughly 181(81,600kg), now - 168(59,900kg))! It is a fantastic result! I do crave some protein (do not even dream of a fatty pork chop, just want some boiled chicken breast) and grilled veg. No carvings for sweets at all! I eat a lot of different fruit and berries, starting yesterday - added 1 portion of carbs a day (which is shredded wheat for breakfast). I do not do any other physical activity but at work (mind children + doing some tidying up) and the weight just flies away. It is not cheap to buy all different berries and fruit, but summer is just the right time to try it! Should you have questions, email me!

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  • lilian miles
    June 5th, 2009

    I tried this diet, it works! I have lost 30 pounds and stick to this diet almost for one year. Some of my frieds tried it too. It is not an easy diet you have to stick to it in order for it to work. Good luck!

  • Dee Dee
    June 1st, 2009

    I tried the diet for the first three weeks. It works and continues to work. It is a diet only for the strong. If you stick to it, it will benefit you. It is low in calorie and nutrients. But once you complete it, then you can return to eating normal, but you won’t want to. I brought back my chicken and fish and veggies. The fruit is the key!!! Keep up the diet for breakfast and lunch and have a sensible dinner. You’ll be fine. You can find portions of her book online to give you the complete diet or just buy the book, it is worth it! A team of us teachers tried it and it was easy because of our schedule. If you aren’t busy during the day it will be hard for you to stick to. Good Luck

  • TERRI WESSELS
    May 30th, 2009

    i had this book, does anyone have it? i need the recipe for bagels.it’s in the back of the book
    thanks

  • somebody
    May 24th, 2009

    cant wait to try this diet..but can you use other fruits instead of strawberry?pls. e-mail me at mabw02@yahoo.com.ph

  • FAI
    May 19th, 2009

    I AM REALLY INTERESTED IN THIS DIET. COULD SOMEONE PLEASE E-MAIL IT TO: fai.tembo@yahoo.com?THANKS

  • lianne
    May 8th, 2009

    Carnt wait to start this diet as soon as I do and start to lose the weight ill let u know.I carnt wait.

  • Erika Billinger
    May 2nd, 2009

    I did this diet in 1985, lost almost 40 pounds, and want to do it again. I did love this diet as I was full of energy. Who can email me the diet at shnoodsle@hotmail.de please?

  • Susan G. Bechtel
    May 2nd, 2009

    Hi,

    I would just love to find a group of people who regularly chat about this diet and their day-to-day experience with it - either one “The Beverly Hills Diet” or “The New Beverly Hills Diet” both diets are by Judy Mazel.

    I used to frequent her website “Cyberskinny.com” but as you likely know she has since dies and the site is no longer up and running.

    Is there anyone out there who knows of a forum I can join with people on this diet?

    Thanks for any help you can give me. By the way, I love this diet - it is healthy and it works.

    Sue.
    Ontario, Canada

  • Christie
    April 28th, 2009

    I would love to try this diet to see if it works for me. If someone could email it to me that would be great. csbrandis@yahoo.com

  • Leeanne
    April 23rd, 2009

    I lost loads on the BH diet, and looked and felt MARVELLOUS!!! No indigestion, high energy. would love it if somebody could email me the diet as I no longer have it
    PS you have to stick to it …..

  • Anna
    April 16th, 2009

    I tried the original Beverly Hills diet back in the 80’s and lost eleven pounds in ten days. I kept the weight off for 15 years and never budged more than a pound off that weight. Now in my 40’s I just went on it again…Wish me luck! Anyway, in my mind it is a book to retrain your digestive system and give it a brake from overload, kind of like when you were a baby an were introduced to foods incrementally. This is nutritionally balance just not all in one day or one meal. Good Luck!

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  • liza
    March 27th, 2009

    i really would like to go on the diet but does it work for all body types?

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  • JENNIFER
    March 12th, 2009

    I TRIED THE NEW BEVERLY HILLS DIET IN 98′ AFTER I HAD A BABY, AND NOT ONLY DID I LOOSE THE BABY WEIGHT OF 30# BUT AN ADTIONAL 20# MORE. THE DIET IS NOT JUST PRUNES, STRAWBERRIES AND BAKED POTATOES! I LOVE THIS DIET!

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  • Paris
    March 1st, 2009

    would be so kind if someone could just take a few moments out of their time and email me the diet? i would love that since i cannot purchase the book online :( i really need to get onto this..
    my email id is - hotparis11@yahoo.com

  • miriam
    February 18th, 2009

    hi!!I really need your help !!I want to do this diet and didnt find the book online .There is a chance to buy it like a ebook!!!!or something i need the book please tell me where i can buy it online !!!!to read it online :) :) :) :Thanks Miriam

  • h.majesta
    February 11th, 2009

    I am an African American teenager from southern California and my mother was always a fan of the Beverly Hills Diet. I myself tried this diet several times starting at the age of about twelve. During my senior year of high school I buckled down for about three months and lost 40 pounds. Since then i have been able to maintain. The point of the diet is not to eat fruit only for the rest of you life but to live a balanced well rounded life and eat consciously. The Beverly Hills Diet DOES WORK. You just have to be strong enough to handle it!

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  • Haley
    January 31st, 2009

    I dont like this diet.I used it for 2weeks and i gained 10 pounds back.

  • Somebody
    January 6th, 2009

    I tried this diet over 25 yrs ago.( Only diet I ever tried,
    I just eat healthy!). You do lose weight, and what I remember the most was my skin looked beautiful and my eyes got brighter. Seriously! The problem is that Americans tend to eat like there is no tomorrow…the gain up 400 lbs,and then suddenly they want to lose the weight over night, I really don’t know any other country with more serious weight problems than USA. American kids are obese, too. Sad.

  • sally
    January 3rd, 2009

    did this diet since 1986- it is great -lost lots of weight -over 40#, need to stick to maintaince guidlies it works well. Had lots of energy!

  • Anonymous
    January 1st, 2009

    Does the new beverly hills diet work as well as the old one???

  • fatima kapula
    December 18th, 2008

    this diet looks good but do u really hav to chge the fruits everyday or can u stick with that diet up there????

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