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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:25
Sassy Water, MUFA and "Eat Mostly Plants, Especially Leaves"
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These are the concepts of  two new diet plans for 2009:
Are these for real?


* Flat Belly Diet: Sassy Water & MUFO
* In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto: Plants & Leaves

Liz Vaccarielloo and Cynthia Sassy of Prevention Magazine published a new diet book for the year, the Flat Belly Diet. It promises the dieter who drinks  Sassy Waters & MUFO's:                

* a flat belly without doing a single crunch,
* lose 15 lbs. in 32 days
* lose up to 7 lbs. & 5  3/4 inches from your waist in 96 hours
* conquer emotional eating
* eat delicious foods

The Flat Belly Diet is based on eating 4- 400 calorie meals, including a food from the"MUFA" group with each  meal. MUFA is shorthand for monounsaturated fat, a so called good fat. MUFA's are supposed to reduce bloating and produce fullness. They include Canola oil, olive oil, seeds,nuts, avocado, peanut butter and peanut oil.  At the same time  the Flat Belly Diet requires you to drink two liters of Sassy Water a day.!  If you don't know what Sassy Water is, here is the recipe:

Sassy Water: 8 cups water, 1 tsp. grated ginger, 1 medium cucumber, 1 medium lemon and 12 spearmint leaves.


Flat Belly Diet Meal Ideas:
  • Toss sliced avocado, chopped olives, or sliced nuts in your green leaf salad
  • Pour Oil Based Dressings on top of your salad specifically Olive Oil, Sun Flower, or Peanut Oil
  • Add avocado to a Mexican chicken or black bean soup
  • Instead of croutons, add nuts and seeds to your or soup or salad
  • Add nuts to stir fry dishes
  • Ask for Olives in your Enchiladas or other Mexican Food.
  • Dribble Pesto sauce over a small bed of noodles
  • Add a dollop of pesto to dishes such as tomato soup or baked potato
All of the weight loss claims are based on a study from Australia published in 2003. In this study 8 men ( ages 24-49 ) followed the diet for 4 weeks and lost 2 more pounds than those following a normal diet.


In Defense of Food: an Eater's Manifesto.
An honest,  intellectual approach is presented in Michael Pollen's new book.  Pollan, professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, has written five books on the state of eating in this  country.  He is no doubt a brilliant author and his books are fun to read. His latest book,  In Defense of Food proposes several "rules of thumb" to solve the obesity crisis among them "Eat Mostly Plants, Especially the leaves.
  1. Don't  Eat Anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize
  2. Avoid Foods that contain ingredients that are unfamiliar,  have more than 5 ingredients, or have high fructose corn syrup
  3. Avoid Foods that make health claims
  4. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket, stay out of the middle (presumably processed foods are in the middle) fresh, vegetables and fruits are on the periphery.
  5. Get out of the supermarket-shop at a farmers market, grow you own food
  6. Eat mostly plants, especially the leaves
  7. If you have space, buy a freezer
  8. Eat wild foods when you can
  9. Be the kind of person who takes supplements
  10. Eat like the French, the Italians, the Japanese or the Indians or Greeks
  11. Regard Nontraditional foods with skepticism
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Some of the other suggestions by Pollan is to buy a hole hog, and to cut  it up and put the pieces in a freezer.  He lectures on  the differences between  "free-range" and "pastured" eggs and the virtues of going foraging in the wild for your salad greens. Other alternatives are  buying fresh foods at farmers market and food cooperatives.


All of this might be great if you are a university professor at Berkeley, but for the vast majority of overweight people is this kind of thinking doing them any service?  Does this plan and  the even more crazy, The Flat Belly Diet offer  overweight people a realistic plan to lose weight? I think it just makes them feel even more helpless when they see what the "experts" tell them they should eat. Both of these  "health" food based diets are complicated, time consuming, and expensive. These diets plans involve all kinds of  food shopping, and preparation whether low calorie, low carb or low fat. They will rarely help you loss weight. Debates over the benefits of farm fresh or wild salmon, free ranged or pastured eggs, or the benefits of MUFA and Sassy Water  four times a day seems s irrelevant for most people.

The 100 Calorie Secret offers  you  a real plan based on eating real foods you like which surround you all day.  Eating so called "health" foods is no guarantee of weight loss, in fact often  it leads to weight gain when portions are not considered.
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