In our fast paced world, many people do not take proper care of themselves and one of the problem areas is diet. Poor dietary habits, such as overeating or eating at the wrong time of the day, have helped promote obesity in young and old alike. To combat this weighty problem, people have turned to exercise and better nutrition to curb their appetites and shed pounds. Healthier living has spawned an entire array of diet plans, and the Cambridge Diet is one of them.
History
The Cambridge Diet has been around for more than 30 years helping people to lose weight. Developed by Dr. Howard over an eight-year period in the 1980s while at Cambridge University, it is a nutritional supplement, which provides 100 percent of the recommended daily requirements of vitamins and minerals.
Plans
There are several different ways to approach the Cambridge Diet and each produces results of varying amounts. A complete commitment to nothing but the diet's products produces the fastest weight loss results. Adding a small amount of low calorie food intake with a little less of the Cambridge supplements will also have results, but will take the dieter on a slightly slower track. An alternate program uses an addition of low calorie food one day, and none the next. Therefore, this diet designed to accommodate different patterns of dietary structure, always focuses on the end result, which is weight loss.
Calories
In order for the Cambridge Diet to work as designed, the participant must limit their caloric intake each day. The program strongly suggests that the calories be limited to a maximum of 1500 a day, which can be done, but willpower is necessary to stay with it.
Components
The Cambridge Diet uses a number of different products to get the dieter through the day. One hundred and ten calorie milkshakes in flavors like vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, plus nutritional bars like chocolate, peanut butter and caramel help to bring the nutritional balance back into people's lives. Soups like potato, tomato, mushroom, and an oatmeal mix used for pancakes or muffins rounds out the menu.
Exercise
The diet does not outwardly promote exercise since the daily caloric intake is possibly too low to provide a stable base for any type of sustained aerobics. Running, jogging or bicycle riding use up a lot of the daily calories that this diet allows, leaving not much left for a person to function throughout a normal day.
Taste
Although the company makes claims of great taste, which may very well be the case, a potential dieter may want to sample the products from someone they know prior to purchasing a large quantity of them, just to be sure.
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