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The New Beverly Hills Diet

What It Is

The new Beverly Hills diet centers on "conscious combining" -- eating the right foods at the right time.

The original Beverly Hills diet began with a highly restrictive 42-day initiation phase. The new one forgoes many of the earlier extremes, and now, according to its author, meets recommended standards for a balanced weekly diet.

Note the phrase "balanced weekly diet." As far as Judy Mazel is concerned, our dietary troubles began when we adopted a 3-square-meals-a-day plan, and they'd soon be over if we stopped combining carbohydrates with proteins, proteins with carbohydrates, and fruit with anything.

"It isn't what you eat or how much you eat that makes you fat," maintains Mazel, a dietary and lifestyle counselor, "it is when you eat and what you eat together!"

For those who thrive on lots of positive reinforcement, are very fond of fruit, and who cope best when armed with affirmations, then this diet book may suit you.

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD, May 2006.

SOURCES: Mazel, J. The New Beverly Hills Diet, HCI, Oct. 1, 1996. David W. Grotto, RD, LD, spokesman, American Dietetic Association.

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