The Flavor Point Diet

Throw away the measuring cups, calorie counter and whatever other kitchen paraphernalia you’ve amassed from experimenting with hundreds of diets in the past. You’ve come full circle. Yes, the Flavor Point diet is the only way to go. It’s a jargon-free diet program that appeals to our common sense and does not insult the intelligence.

Remember only one thing: one flavor a day.

One flavor is what lies at the core of Dr. Katz’s ever-growing popular diet which he developed as an obesity researcher at Yale University. The fumbling and bumpy Ferris-wheel ride on weight loss may finally come to a full stop. Dr. Katz says 16 pounds in six weeks is an achievable goal if the diet is strictly followed.

Foods in the Flavor Point Diet – the common foods used in Dr. Katz’s diet are not hard to find. No special shopping trips to specialty food stores are called for. This diet concentrates on generous amounts of fruits and vegetables, whole grains and nuts, and fish and poultry. Any form of these foods – whole grain bread for whole grains and almonds and soy beans for nuts – can be integrated into one’s daily program. So while there are no specific restrictions imposed by the Flavor Point diet – even chocolate is allowed – the diet program must have plenty of these food groups. Spices, salts and sugars must be at a minimum, whenever possible.

The Flavor Point Diet is a radical departure from the Atkins, Scarsdale or South Beach diets because it ignores calories, fat and carbohydrates. It sort of echoes the US government’s food pyramid in the sense that it incorporates only healthy foods for individuals to maintain good health through sensible eating. It distinguishes itself from other diets on the basis of devoting one day of the week to a particular flavor until the seven days are completed. To illustrate this more clearly, it might look something like this (you can introduce your own flavor for each day, provided you choose only one flavor):

Monday - pineapple flavor
Tuesday - lettuce flavor
Wednesday - raisins and walnuts flavor
Thursday - tomato flavor
Friday - chocolate flavor (you deserve a treat!)
Saturday - apple flavor
Sunday - chicken flavor

Note the inclusion of fruits and vegetables, whole grains and poultry above.

One flavor a day means that for six weeks, we focus on the main features of the diet: the first four weeks on the “one flavor a day” program, the fifth and sixth weeks are a gradual veering away from the flavors, focusing instead on making the transition to healthy eating.

Before you stage a revolt, however, Dr. Katz’s intention is not to eat pineapple on Monday for breakfast, lunch and dinner. There must be variants for each meal, but the variants should be pineapple based.
Breakfast can be a slice or two of fresh pineapple, pineapple muffins and pineapple juice. Lunch can be ham with pineapple and a pineapple upside down cake, and so on. The pineapple’s the thing.
This is why we said earlier, “one flavor, multiple foods.” You can eat different kinds of foods as long as the selected flavor is the principal part of the meal. And by doing a bit of flavor management, your saturation point, or flavor point, comes sooner rather than later, hence triggering the feeling of having had enough to eat.

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