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May 7, 2008 1:30 pm US/Pacific
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Flat Belly Diet Promises Tighter Tummy
(CBS)
Forget crunches, and counting carbs. There's a new diet that claims to be tasty and healthy and promises flatter abs without the need to do crunches. It's called the "Flat Belly Diet".
Missy Bromwell, a mother of two, says she's tried crunches, counting carbs and more for a tighter tummy.
"I've tried a lot of different things; sit-ups crunches, running, the gym. Nothing has worked," explained Bromwell.
But now she plans to try a new diet which promises to take-off and target that belly fat with no exercise at all.
It's called the 'Flat Belly Diet'. It first appeared in "Prevention Magazine", and some say it's the next fat-burning blockbuster.
"Everybody wants a flat belly," exclaimed Lisa Dorfman, a renowned nutritionist. She says one of the keys to the "Flat Belly Diet" is a healthy dose of fat at every meal.
"When you do include fats at every meal it helps to satiate you. So you're not hungry a half-hour, an hour after you've eaten."
But it's not just any fat. It has to be mono-unsaturated fatty acids, or MUFA's.
"Mono-unsaturated fats are the fats that you primarily find in peanut oil, olive oil, and canola oil," said Dorfman.
The "Flat Belly Diet" begins with a four day anti-bloating phase, followed by 28 days of dieting.
The meals are 400 calories each, 4 hours apart, and based on the heart healthy Mediterranean diet.
"One of the positive points about this diet is that it does encourage you to select a variety of healthy food choices, whole grains, fruits, and vegetable into small meals throughout the day," said Dorfman.
While the plan claims to allow 1600 calories a day during the diet phase, Dorfman's own analysis finds it might be much lower than that.
"1000, 1100 is what I found for the anti-bloating phase, and then 1200 for the program, even though they say it is 1600 calories."
Missy Bromwell says she's going to give the "Flat Belly Diet" a try.
"I want my belly to look super-flat, I want it to look six-pack abs." Bromwell says she wants to have a bikini belly by summer.
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The Flat Belly Diet.
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