The
Mayo Clinic Diet is a new diet program named after the
Mayo Clinic. This diet program has been around for quite some time despite the
fact that it is not endorsed or formulated by the Mayo Clinic. It seems to name
itself after the Mayo Clinic in order to attract people to try out this bizarre
diet. It is bizarre because we have rarely seen a more unbalanced diet. The
Mayo Clinic Diet is based on an unproven concept that grapefruit juice reduces
body weight substantially. Since grapefruit juice is so effective in
controlling weight, the Mayo Clinic Diet asks dieters to eat meat, lots of
vegetables and salad dressings all three times a day.
This
seems like an ultimate diet fantasy of a fast food eater. To be able to eat
meat, tons of veggies and salad dressings in both lunch and dinner and yet not
being able to pile on any weight looks too hard to believe!! The truth is that
half a glass of grapefruit juice as prescribed by this diet will in no way make
you lose weight. If you include the high fat, high calorie foods that you will
eat alongside then your weight loss chances are totally negligible. While it is
true that this diet bans complex carbohydrate intake so as to help you to lose
weight, it should also be remembered that complex carbohydrates are the main
source of energy for your body.
Even if
we take for granted that grapefruit juice is indeed effective in controlling
weight, the diet is still very unbalanced to be continued for a long period of
time. While the diet encourages you to eat fried and fat based foods it should
be remembered that both these kinds of food are known to cause cancer and heart
diseases. It doesn’t make any sense to suffer from these ailments at the cost
of losing weight. Also this diet doesn’t ask you to control your diet and tells
you to eat food in large quantities. In our experience, no diet is going to
make you lose weight unless there is some
kind of appetite control.
Frankly,
this is one of those weight loss diets and programs that try to cash in by
using the names of celebrities or famous institutions. What is most unfortunate
is that many people actually do fall for this kind of weight loss diets and
programs. So if you really want to lose weight, try out some other sensible
diet which might not have a fancy name like The Mayo Clinic Diet but will be
far more effective in controlling your excess body weight.
