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In the book shop yesterday I picked up “The Flat Belly Diet”

A diet that can give you a flat belly without doing a single crunch. Yeh right!

I scan read it in the book shop and the idea is something like this.

You reduce your overall calorie intake. Have four 400 calorie meals per day. One meal every four hours. With each meal you add a serving of monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) You get MUFAs from avocado’s, dark chocolate, healthy oils, cashew nuts, pine nuts, peanuts etc . Throughout the day, MUFAs combined with other foods keep your stomach feeling full enough and you feel energised. It kind of makes sense I suppose.

Apparently by including MUFAs with every meal, the fatty acid prevents build up of fat in the belly area and assists with the removal of fat that has built up there already.

I’d love to hear from anybody who has tried The Flat Belly Diet. Does this work or just a load of hype?

The thing is that most foods that contain EFAs (Essential Fatty Acids) are pretty high in fat (good fats mind you) ... and fat gives a high level of satiety when eating, i.e. you tend to feel quite full after eating them. Most people will see a weight loss on a diet of 1200 cals a day anyway and encouraging the addition of these healthy fats within that diet, is certainly not a bad thing.