The Dr. Oz Youth diet is not an extreme fad diet, but rather a tool for creating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The diet promotes losing weight without making it feel like a strict diet. The book, "You on a Diet, "written by Dr. Michael Rozien and Dr. Mehmet Oz, is designed around a healthy balanced diet that will help you live longer, look younger, and lose weight in the process.
The Diet
Dr. Oz's diet is geared around a healthy lifestyle and is not as much about losing weight. Being a cardiologist, Dr. Oz focuses on health, not on making unsubstantiated weight loss claims. For example, Dr. Oz believes that shrinking the waist down to around 32 inches for women and 35 inches for men may help prevent diabetes and heart disease. The focus is on eating fiber, healthy fats, whole grains, and protein.
Eating Rules
The diet is based around healthy, nutritious foods. Dr.Oz promotes consuming certain foods for their high content of antioxidants, such as spinach, an assortment of berries, oatmeal, and green tea. He also promotes anti-inflammatory foods to help counteract the effects of obesity. These include green tea, omega-3 fatty acids (found in fish and walnuts), coffee, fruits, and vegetables. Adding red pepper and cinnamon to foods has been shown to promote weight loss. Drinking lots of water and eating several small meals a day also help curb cravings.
Foods to Avoid
According to Dr. Rozien and Dr. Oz there are five things that should be banned from your diet forever. These ingredients are hydrogenated oils, also known as partially hydrogenated oils, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, enriched flour, and white foods including bleached flour. According to Dr. Rozien, "we eat 63 pounds of high fructose corn syrup a year, which puts 33 pounds on the typical American."
Exercise
Exercise is also extremely important in the youth diet. The diet recommends walking at least thirty minutes every day and stretching every day in order to help keep muscles loose and prevent injury. Strength training should be done two to three days a week and focus on the major muscle groups of the legs, abdominals, and upper body.
Additional Diet Tips
In addition to eating strategies and exercise tips, the youth diet offers some lifestyle changes. These include getting seven to eight hours of sleep a night. Lack of sleep promotes overeating and sugar cravings. Playing video games will keep your hands busy and not holding food. Also, having monogamous sex can help the appetite by producing feelings of satisfaction.
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