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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Is the Jennifer Aniston Cucumber Diet Real?

Rumors abound that Jennifer Aniston lives off very few calories and have called her meal plan the cucumber diet.
One of the hottest bodies in Hollywood belongs to Jennifer Aniston. At 41 years old, time appears to have passed her by. Her personal chefs, Jewels and Jill Elmore, released a cookbook The Family Chef earlier this year, and Aniston wrote the forward, thanking the two for helping her to eat better.

According to a review on dailymail.co.uk, however, the diet didn't seem like a realistic option for the everyday woman. The article's author writes that she often felt hungry while eating the meal plan and wrote of her lunch on the first day, "The inclusion of a little halloumi cheese and a quarter cup of puy lentils doesn’t disguise the fact that I’m essentially eating cucumbers and tomatoes."
The cookbook recommends eating a salad a day and has a recipe for lunch which includes an approximately 150 calorie celery soup. Many of the ingredients seem to be a little out of reach for many of us, and aren't the typical foods that most of us have in our pantries. They include foods like Persian cucumbers and maitake mushrooms, and may be a little far fetched for some.
The authors though have since come out saying that their cookbook was never meant to be a diet plan. According to abcnews.go.com, "The comment about the cucumber diet is especially misleading and could even influence young girls who want to lose weight to think this is a weight-loss measure," said Jewels. "We do not consider ours to be a diet book. The recipes are for healthy, delicious food."
Indeed, most nutritionists recommend that a diet not fall below 1200 calories per day and say that the best way to lose weight is to eat smaller meals more often. Dropping the calorie count too low can lead to health problems and even slow metabolism.