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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.
i really would like to go on the diet but does it work for all body types?
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!
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
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
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!
I dont like this diet.I used it for 2weeks and i gained 10 pounds back.
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.
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!
Does the new beverly hills diet work as well as the old one???
this diet looks good but do u really hav to chge the fruits everyday or can u stick with that diet up there????
Oh, YES it does work. i LOVE fruit, so it is great for me.
At 181 i started this diet….lost 29 ounds in 30 days.
Never hungry, even though i do NOT like watermelon, i did survive those days. There are substitutes (if you must). i used the old diet, and love it. No hunger, beautiful, tight, glowing skin, lots of energy, and the wgt stays off. And in response to the nay-sayers…this is a diet that lets you SEE and FEEL the wgy coming off, and it is a way of eating that transforms as you do, you WILL BE EATING ‘NORMAL’ FOODS very quickly. i found this diet fun and easy. And as far as scientific information…science is a testing ground, and this diet works…if you have the nerve to try it. Think of all the stupid diets you have tried before with little or no results…this one will PEEL the weight off of You, and it is DELICIOUS. i love it, have eaten this way since the 80′s and would never change…read the book…there is a lot more in there about your health than a diet list. GOOD LUCK & do it…you will not be disappointed…just thinner.
please please please dont do this to yourself!!! starving yourself to look better is not what you should od!!! dont you realize that people shuld and will love and care for who you are rather than for what you look like?!?!?! and if some one doesnt accept you for the person that you are (weight and everything included!!!, then they shouldnt even count. it isnt worth it dying to look skinny. NO ONE is perfect, and you should love yourself for who you are. but if slowly killing yourself, and malnutritioning your body to an extent at which you will probably end up being hospitalized is worth it, then keep it up. i guess its worth it dying for a good cause?!?1 well, this is a stupid cause…. dont risk it!!
This diet is dangerous and should never be tried! It promotes anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa beliefs and behaviours and the “scientific” information on enzymes and digestion is basically wrong! I am currently writing an essay based on this diet (I study Psychology) and it’s a short term fix for a long term problem. You will probably put back on the weight you lose and then some.
This diet is insane! If anyone can handle this diet you are my hero :0
Jill, I don’t think people would feel comfortable with sending you the entire eating plan. You need to buy the book and read it before starting this diet, otherwise, you will be misinformed. You can buy the old version of the diet (which is the most effective one IMHO) on Amazon for very cheap. I think mine was about 5$
I agree with the summary for this diet. It is low in proteins, and other nutrients. But I think it would work for some people. However I need protiens in my diet, so it wouldn’t work for me.
it was horrible that was the worst thing i ever tasted
Please can you send me the 2/3/4/5/6 weeks eating plan. I only have the 1st week and would really like to start.Prettyyyy……pleasweeeeeeee
this is rediculouse your body can go into failure and you could die
can i replace the prunes with something else? what else works?
Annie, just so you know I eat very healthy and exercise with a personal trainer and my weight foes not budge. I will continue to do my exercise with the trainer,but I will give this a try. It is very frustrating to eat healthy, exercise and not loose weight!!!
haha! thats the silliest thing ive ever heard! just eat healthy and excercise – thats all you need to do – not eat hardly anything
gosh! haha
You guys are stupid. This is very unhealthy for you so why would you even think of doing it?
Well, this all sounds great…except I’m allergic to most of the fruits!!! I don’t like using my eppie pen so I’ll pass…Good luck guys!
I went on this diet a few years ago and it works. It is a wonderful way to eat. I highly recommend it unless you prefer to remain FAT.
I just saw a friend of mine today and it had been a few months since I saw her. I was shocked because she looked much skinnier than usual. She told me she went on this diet and lost 30 lbs. I think I will give it a try, I like fruits so it shouldn’t be hard for me.
This diet is rediculous anyone that follows it obviously has got no respect for their body.
Yes the diet works. I don’t know about the new, but I know the old does. But you will have to put some will power with it. So I would suggest you get yourself some kind of activity to keep you busy. My theory is if you have nothing to do and you like to eat like I do you will eat. So stay busy doing something outside the house. Also the thing I like about it was I could see weightloss everyday which gave me the strength to keep going.
i just watched beverly hills chihuahua and i really want to look like the main character, so im going to give this a try
(fingers crossed)
wish me luck
You guys or whover you are, are insane, this diet is stupid and pointless. You should know that you are in American and with one of the biggest obesity rates the diet bussiness huge and don’t even work. They’re just a scam to get you money…