The New Beverly Hills Diet: The latest weight-loss research that explains a conscious food-combining program for LIFELONG SLIMHOOD [Paperback]

Judy Mazel (Author), Michael Wyatt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1996

Imagine a program where you can indulge in your favorite foods--from steak to pasta, and even champagne--and still lose weight easily. Then imagine being able to maintain your new slim shape forever. With this new program, author Judy Mazel has made your dreams a reality. She shows you how to take charge of the foods you eat to achieve a lifestyle eating plan that will keep you off the "fat track" for good.

The secret to your new slimhood rests with Conscious Combining. Refined and expanded from its introduction in Mazel's original book, this technique teaches you how and when to mix different food groups for optimum weight control. You'll also learn the four golden rules of weight management, plus the significance of enzyme interaction in weight loss.

The program now includes a 35-day "Born Again Skinny" diet with recipes for your new food lifestyle. This is a diet many Hollywood stars have embraced. Judy's private client list has included luminaries such as Jack Nicholson, Jodie Foster, Maria Shriver and Engelbert Humperdinck. They, and countless others, found this to be the lifestyle eating plan that changed their shape forever.

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"It isn't what you eat or how much you eat that makes you fat, it is when you eat and what you eat together," announces this follow-up to the smash original Beverly Hills diet plan. In a switch from the original, this updated version gives day-to-day advice and support and a full 35-day menu plan that includes a more balanced diet that includes animal protein (the first 10 days of the original diet included nothing but fruit). There's no portion control or forbidden foods, ergo the book's mantra: "Cheesecake and cheekbones, hamburgers and hipbones." Enthusiastic and encouraging author Judy Mazel dropped from 180 to 108 pounds by following this diet, optimizing the enzymatic action of foods by eating fruits by themselves, by not mixing carbohydrates with proteins or eating carbohydrates after proteins, and by following protein with protein. The many additional rules of this diet may be hard to keep track of, but the guideline that's easy to remember is that champagne goes with everything (however, wine goes with fruit, and other alcoholic beverages should be combined with other carbohydrates). Warning: some of the prescribed fruits--there are mangoes, papayas, pineapples, and apricots galore--will be hard to find out of season for anyone who doesn't live in southern California.

About the Author

Judy Mazel (December 20, 1943 - October 12, 2007) was the American weight loss advocate and author of the "The Beverly Hills Diet", which became a 1981 best seller and a nationwide diet craze.  Judy Mazel was a devout practicing Jew and was raised in a conservative Ashkenazi Jewish home.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: HCI; Revised edition (October 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558744258
• ISBN-13: 978-1558744257
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #350,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars WOW! Works fast, not hard, (but needs more recipes...), December 16, 1998

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This review is from: The New Beverly Hills Diet: The latest weight-loss research that explains a conscious food-combining program for LIFELONG SLIMHOOD (Paperback)

I bought this book after seeing the amazing results that my best friend was getting. I am on day 10 and have already lost 6.5 pounds despite the fact that for two days I only followed the diet for breakfast and ate whatever I wanted the rest of the day. There must be something to Judy's plan, because losing weight on it is faster what it would be if I ate nothing at all. It's very easy for me because food preparation is simple.(and I'm pretty busy). I'm excited about it because I can eat a variety of things. I have not had any gas, bloating, or felt lightheaded. Another friend of ours with ALOT of weight to lose (more than 100 1bs) is following the original diet and has already dropped 13lbs in 10 days!(She hasn't felt weak or lightheaded either!) The only thing I don't like is that I'd like 1 or 2 recipes for chicken preparation, there isn't much guidance there unless you buy the recipe book. Temptation to "cheat" isn't too great because you can have your favorites here and there, AND because the rapid reduction is so motivating! ALL in ALL, I say TRY IT! You'll lose the weight FAST and keep it off! How's that for the best of both worlds!

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A happy woman, April 2, 2000

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This review is from: The New Beverly Hills Diet: The latest weight-loss research that explains a conscious food-combining program for LIFELONG SLIMHOOD (Paperback)

First of all, I have done this diet with the old book, I just found out there is a new version.

4 years ago I came across the book by accident and being the heaviest I had ever been and very desperate, I decided it wouldn't hurt to try, I had already tried everything else... now I refer to the book as my "bible". It was not easy but after a couple of days the weightloss motivated me to continue and within 6 months I had lost 60 pounds!I took pictures of myself when I started and every 3 months after that and it is amazing to look back at them, I really advise you do the same when you start this diet, it is good motivation...

Keeping my ideal weight will always be a challenge and as soon as I tend to slip (vacations are tough) I grab my "bible", it puts me back on the tracks and makes me feel a lot more energetic and healthy.

I would like to make a comment about the reviewer 'A reader from New York'(March 24 2000): the Beverly Hills diet is not meant to be done for just 2 weeks and then stopped, no wonder you regain, the Beverly Hills diet is a change in your foodpattern, a way of life that you should try and stick with to lead a healthier life, this is clearly specified in the book, so please do not blame Judy Mazel for your weight gain and obvious lack of discipline! To everyone who is ready to try it I would like to say this: the first 6 days are the hardest, then you realize you are over the first half of the 10 days of just fruit...and believe me, the first bite I took of my tunafish sandwich on day 11 was the best I ever had! Good luck people, you can do it and don't be put off by people with negative remarks telling you it can't be healthy etc. I realized those people are just envious of the fact that you are losing the weight when they just don't have the motivation to keep it up and you know what? That just motivated me even more! And thank you Judy Mazel...

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mazel delivered what she promissed! Fascinating!, September 20, 1999

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This review is from: The New Beverly Hills Diet: The latest weight-loss research that explains a conscious food-combining program for LIFELONG SLIMHOOD (Paperback)

I started the diet with scepticism, but quickly was encouraged by the results. I followed the book religiously and lost 16 pounds in 35 days! I feel great as for the first time a diet worked for me with no pain. Thank you Judy! PS: I checked the diet with my doctor. His comment was that the diet is drastic but healthy.