Check Out the Suzanne Somers Diet

The Suzanne Somers Diet is a reduced carbohydrate diet with its emphasis on food combining. In phase one of the diet, you are asked to eliminate all ‘funky’ foods. "Funky Foods" include:

• Sugar
• White Flour
• Honey and maple syrup
• Carrots,
• Bananas
• Sweet Potatoes
• Nuts
• Whole Milk

Once you are comfortable eliminating these foods, you can begin following the principle of food combining.

Rules of Food Combining Include: meal.

• Do not mix proteins and carbs in the same meal.
• Carbs require amylase for digestion and proteins utilize protease. By mixing the two in the same meal, weakens the body’s ability to produce enough digestive enzymes to properly digest your food.
• Eat fruits alone since they will ferment if eaten in combination with other foods, especially proteins.
• Eat Fats with proteins (no carbs)
• Wait three hours between meals
• Eat small meals
• Eat vegetables with each meal

According to the Suzanne Somers Diet, breakfast should consist of fruit only. At lunch, you could have some salmon with a vegetable salad, and for dinner you could have steak with steamed vegetables. Snacks would consist of eating string cheese, or some fruit. In phase one, you should avoid caffeine and alcohol, whereas in phase two, you are basically onto maintenance and are allowed some red wine and chocolate. You can also break some of the rules of food combining by adding some cheese or olive oil to your pasta.

The Suzanne Somers Diet is an adaptation of the popular Fit-for-Life Diet which also advocates eating fruits alone in the morning, and follows the food combining principles.

The principles of food combining were originally discovered and developed by an early 1900 Naturopath by the name of Herbert Shelton. Shelton put a strong emphasis on fasting to remove toxins from the body, and he believed that one should eat all foods in the raw form. He was the originator of the principles of food combining and wrote books on how to use what he termed the “hygienic diet” to cure disease.

The success of the Suzanne Somers Diet in regards to weight loss, may be in part to the fact that you are restricting the amount of food eaten during the course of a day. One problem remains is that when you eat fruits alone, you are throwing a high glycemic load into your bloodstream which is not good for you especially if you have a sugar handling problem. This will tend to increase your cravings, and make it even more difficult to stay on the diet. I’ve tried recommending the food combining principles to my patients over the years, and it seemed to work temporarily, but history has shown that it is not a diet that one can stay on long term, and when they eventually change their diets, there usually is an immediate bout of weight gain.

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