Will The Flat Belly Diet Reshape Midsections?

Dieting is possibly now more popular than the Beatles. Fad diets are everywhere, like the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet, the We Can’t Believe You Fell For This Marketing Ploy and Bought This Stuff Diet, and now the Flat Belly Diet. A miracle way to make yourself Hollywood skinny has been sought for years, just like the Northwest Passage, and also the Flat Belly Diet likely isn't it either. Nevertheless, it uses common sense and some really solid science. It won't send you running for installment loan for bulk orders of frozen dinners that taste like cardboard, either.

Mediterranean Diet is related to the Flat Belly Diet

WebMD has a review of the Flat Belly Diet. The claim is the Flat Belly Diet will burn 15 pounds in 32 days. The first part consists of a four-day 1,200 to 1,400 calories per day initiation period, wherein dieters ingest foods targeted to cut back bloating and mentally adjust to eating healthier. During these four days, you are encouraged to drink 2 liters a day of Sassy Water.

The secret ingredients are monounsaturated fats

As fate would have it, Cynthia Sass, inventor of Sassy Water, is a co-author of the Flat Belly Diet book, along with Liz Vaccariello. The key to the 1,600 calories a day Flat Belly Diet is a compound called Monounsaturated Fat. MUFAs are known to boost good cholesterol and reduce the bad cholesterol.

There is healthy good stuff in it

There’s an eating plan and a cookbook. You eat four portion-controlled, small meals per day, each of which involves a MUFA ingredient. The idea is to stick to healthy foods like more fruits and veggies, whole grains, beans, lean protein and so forth. Exercise is encouraged to complement the diet.

What the doctors said

The WebMD review was mixed. They had some reservations about the Flat Belly Diet, but they did praise some features. They point out the 15 pounds will probably be water weight, in that a person would have to burn over 1,600 calories a day to lose the claimed 15 pounds in that time. The best weight loss results are slow and steady — a couple of pounds a week — and to remember SED – Strength training, Exercise (meaning cardio), and a healthy Diet. There may be no Northwest Passage to weight loss.

Article resources

WebMD

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/flat-belly-diet

Flat Belly Diet

http://flatbellydiet.prevention.com/default.asp?sname=DefaultOffer&mktSSOfferId=FBD24716&mktBKOfferId=PVN24251

Monounsaturated Fat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monounsaturated_fat