The 24-hour version of the celebrity diet is a liquid fast that is supposed to help you lose up to 5 lbs. in one day. You must purchase a special diet supplement and avoid food for a full day. If you are considering this very-low-calorie diet, consult a doctor first, especially if you have a health condition.
Identification
This celebrity diet, officially called the Hollywood 24-Hour Miracle Diet, is promoted by supplement maker Sunset Health Products. It was developed by Jamie Kabler, diet counselor to Hollywood stars, according to the diet website. To perform the diet, sip the liquid supplement throughout the day along with eight glasses of water. You do not eat any regular food. This fast is supposed to detoxify your body and help you shed weight. The company recommends performing the diet either once a month or every other weekend.
Ingredients and Calories
The liquid supplement you consume is a blend of juices and vitamins. Ingredients include cranberry, apple, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry and strawberry juices, acai citrin, blueberry flavoring and xathan gum. The drink is fortified with vitamins A, C, E, D, B-3, B-5, B-6, B-2, B-1, B-12 and folic acid. When you consume a 4-oz. serving of this drink, it gives you 100 percent of the daily recommendation for each of these vitamins. On this diet, you consume four 4-oz servings of the supplement throughout the day. Each 4-oz serving has 100 calories, so your total caloric intake for the day is 400 calories. Very-low-calorie diets such as this should be medically supervised, according to the "American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide," by Roberta Larson Duyff. On the plus side, the supplement does not contain any red flag ingredients like caffeine or ephedra, notes the Diets In Review Website.
Fasting Drawbacks
While fasting is purported to be a good way to jump-start your weight loss efforts, doing so deprives your body of needed energy and nutrients such as protein, according to Duyff. Also, the weight you lose will be water and muscle, not fat. Fasting can lead to fatigue, nausea and dizziness. If you have a health condition, such as diabetes or kidney disease, a very low-calorie diet can be harmful.
Detoxification
Sunset Health advocates this diet as a good way to detox. However, little evidence supports the theory that fasting diets remove toxins from your body, according to Katherine Zeratsky, a dietician with MayoClinic.com. Most of the toxins you take in are removed efficiently by your liver and kidneys and excreted in your urine, Zeratsky notes. Duyff warns that detox diets may actually backfire because chemicals in your body called ketones build up when not enough carbohydrates are available to provide energy. Ketones that accumulate can be harmful to your health and can put an additional burden on your kidneys, Duyff notes.
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