What Is the Fit for Life Diet?
The Fit for Life diet comes from a book named Fit for Life, which was written by a couple named Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. The diet is a plan for weight loss and general good health that is based on avoiding combinations of certain types of foods. Its creators claim a person can lose weight without reducing caloric intakes or exercising, as long as he does not combine certain foods.
The authors of Fit for Life assert that people have trouble losing weight because they combine dead foods with live foods. Dead foods, which the creators say are meats and starches, work to clog a person’s body. Living foods, which are fruits and vegetables that are eaten raw, are said to cleanse the body. The authors also discuss enzymes in one version of the book, calling some foods enzyme deficient. They also state that enzymes capable of digesting proteins interfere with those that digest carbohydrates and vice versa.
In order to follow the Fit for Life diet, a person would need to consume only fruit and fruit juice until lunch time, or noon, each day. The diet also recommends eating fruit by itself, no matter what time of the day a person chooses to eat it. Fruit, the diet creators assert, works to cleanse the body, but not if it is combined with other types of foods.
At lunch and dinnertime, a person on the Fit for Life diet can enjoy two types of foods. He can either eat vegetables and carbohydrates or vegetables and proteins. According to the diet’s creators, dieters should never combine protein-rich foods with carbohydrates.
The dieter is also supposed to avoid dairy foods at all times. When following the Fit for Life diet, dairy foods are not considered a good choice at any meal. Even water makes the list of things to avoid, at least some of the time. Dieters are not supposed to drink it with their meals.
Some people say they’ve lost weight on the Fit for Life diet, though some in the health field dismiss it as unlikely to work. Some health experts do say that the diet’s inclusion of plenty of fruits and vegetables is a good thing. On the other hand, the Fit for Life diet excludes dairy products, which contain a good deal of calcium. Some people may have difficulty consuming an optimal amount of calcium with dairy products excluded.
Written by N. Madison
