Dieting is maybe now more popular than the Beatles. Fad diets are everywhere, like the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet, the We Can't Believe You Fell For This Marketing Ploy and Bought This Stuff Diet, and now the Flat Belly Diet. There is no Northwest Passage when it comes to weight loss, and the Flat Belly Diet is no exception. It does, though, use some solid science and common sense. You won't have to get payday installment loans for shipments of frozen meals, either.

Flat Belly Diet uses Mediterranean Diet

, and doctors are the experts on the human body. The claim is the Flat Belly Diet will burn 15 pounds in 32 days. The first four days are 1,200 to 1,400 calorie days designed to reset the system and get dieters into the mindset of healthier eating. During these four days, you're encouraged to drink 2 liters a day of Sassy Water.

Monounsaturated fats
As fate would have it, Cynthia Sass, inventor of Sassy Water, is a co-author of the Flat Belly Diet book, along with Liz Vaccariello. The 1,600 calorie per day diet is glued together with a compound called Monounsaturated Fat. MUFAs are known to boost good cholesterol and reduce the bad cholesterol.

There is healthy good stuff in it
There's an eating plan and a cookbook. You eat a small meal each and every four hours, and each contain a MUFA ingredient. The idea is to stick to healthy foods like more fruits and veggies, whole grains, beans, lean protein and so forth. You are also encouraged to serve yourself a side of regular exercise.

What the doctors said
WebMD won't be recommending it to Stockholm, though they didn't hate it. The review said that there were very good things about the Flat Belly Diet, but some misleading things. The weight lost will probably be water weight, as a person would have to burn 1,600 calories a day or more to lose 15 true fat pounds in 32 days. They affirm that good weight loss, about a pound or two a week, is slow and steady and reminded people to remember SED – Strength training, Exercise, and proper Diet. There is no miracle weight loss solution.

Citations

WebMD

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/flat-belly-diet

Flat Belly Diet

http://flatbellydiet.prevention.com/default.asp?sname=DefaultOffer&mktSSOfferId=FBD24716&mktBKOfferId=PVN24251

Monounsaturated Fat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monounsaturated_fat