Dieting is perhaps 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. There is no Northwest Passage when it comes to weight loss, and the Flat Belly Diet is no exception. However, it uses common sense and some really solid science. You won’t have to get short term loans for shipments of frozen meals, either.
Flat Belly Diet builds on Mediterranean Diet
WebMD has a review of the Flat Belly Diet. The claim is that 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. Dieters are designed to drink 2 liters a day of Sassy Water during this phase.
The secret ingredients are monounsaturated fats
Indeed, Cynthia Sass, who invented Sassy Water, is a co-author of the book along with Liz Vaccariello. The key to the 1,600 calories a day Flat Belly Diet is a compound called Monounsaturated Fat. MUFAs, as they're called, are known to help reduce levels of low density lipoproteins (that's the bad cholesterol) and potentially boost High Density Lipoprotein (the good kind).
There is healthy good stuff in it
The diet itself has an eating plan, a cookbook, you name it. You eat four portion-controlled, small meals per day, each of which includes a MUFA ingredient. The idea is to stick to healthy foods like a lot more fruits and veggies, whole grains, beans, lean protein and so forth. Exercise is encouraged to complement the diet.
What 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. They affirm that good weight loss, about a pound or two a week, is slow and steady and reminded people to remember SED – Strength training, Exercise, and proper Diet. There is no miracle weight loss solution.
Citations
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
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