Healthy Food Choices for the Beverly Hills Diet

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The Beverly Hills Diet was first released in 1981. It has since been revised and re-released and is now called the New Beverly Hills Diet. This particular program involves combining food what the author refers to as conscious combining. This particular diet plan doesn't count calories; it doesn't actually count portions either. What the author believes is that the combination of how you eat your food is what promotes weight loss, so she emphasizes eating fruits only with other fruits, carbohydrates only with other carbohydrates, and proteins only with other proteins. You will start your day out eating fruit. You want to eat one type of fruit at a time. So, for example, if you start out your day eating bananas, you can eat as many bananas as you want, but if you want to switch to eating a grapefruit, you have to wait at least an hour before you switch to eating that grapefruit. The next thing about this diet is if you want to eat something that's carbohydrate such as you wanted to have a piece of toast, once you start to eat that toast you can no longer go back to eating fruit. The next aspect of this diet is once you decide you want to have something with protein such as tuna, at that point, the rest of your day has to include at least 80% protein. You're allowed one meal that's a combination, something--for example, a tuna sandwich where you could have the bread with the tuna. But from there on out the rest of the day, you're going to make sure the vast majority of your foods are high protein foods, something like peanut butter or cheese or eggs or something to that effect.