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The flavour diet

An American scientist has invented a new diet that will allow you to eat chocolate flavoured foods all day, one day in seven.

On the other days you spend all day munching on similar flavour themes including orange, spinach, onion and peach.

This may sound bizarre, but the diet, devised by Dr. David Katz of Yale University, is taking America by storm.

The flavour point diet claims to be based on sound science. Dr. Katz reckons that we find it hard to lose weight because at each meal we are bombarded by flavours, which stimulate our hunger.

Each bite of food, triggers nerve endings on our tongues, releasing chemicals, including opioids, the bodys natural painkillers, into the blood. And the more flavours we register the more the brains appetite centre is stimulated, craving more food.

Hence Dr. Katz recommends that each day we stick to one overriding flavour so that we reach the point in the meal where we feel full much earlier than if we ate a lot of flavours.

And amazingly there is no need to count calories.

The Diet

The plan lasts for six weeks and involves eating around 1,500 calories a day. His book includes a list of recipes so you can make up his dinners.

It also recommends 30 minutes of exercise a day and six glasses of water a day.

Each week could feature days themed on the following flavours:

• Raisin and currant
• Peach
• Tomato
• Onion
• Spinach
• Thyme
• Lemon
• Orange
• Chocolate

Source: Daily Express