WHATS OLD IS NEW
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010The Cambridge Diet
The Cambridge Diet was the diet to follow in the 1980s, and now it’s making a massive comeback with sales of the book on the rise. It’s a tough weight-loss plan that revolves around a regime of low-calorie soups, shakes and snack bars in the place of solid meals.
It’s very similar to Lighter Life – the meal-replacement diet that became hugely popular last year. You see a Cambridge Diet counsellor before you start, who will talk you through the diet and your reasons for going on it. There are six stages, with Stage 1 being the toughest and Stage 6 being the easiest (if you’re very overweight you may be advised to start with Stage 1, and you can make your way through the stages depending on your weight loss). Once you hit your goal weight, you can go back (carefully, and with the advice of a counsellor) to regular food.
The reason the diet was so popular thirty years ago was because weight loss is fast and dramatic. However, like Lighter Life, because of this the diet has also attracted criticism with some nutritionists worrying that the daily calorie allowance is too low (as little as 500 calories a day – though the makers of the Cambridge Diet say that all their shakes and snacks are specially designed to give you the correct amount of nutrients).
*To find out more about The Cambridge Diet, visit http://.Cambridge-Diet.co.uk