The Baby Food Diet
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The theory
Eating baby food as a diet plan has been the talk of celeb-land ever since super-svelte iconic menswear guru Hedi Slimane - formerly head designer at Dior - admitted to keeping his waistline enviably slim by cutting out two meals a day and replacing them with food created for newborns.
The plan
Fill up your store cupboard with baby food. You won't have to think too hard about menu, food preparation or chewing.
Pros
Absolutely no pros whatsoever - this is completely bonkers and is an indictment of how nutty food fads have become.
Cons
It could easily appeal to those who are borderline anorexic and could be dangerous. The emphasis of all that has been written on this approach has centred on 'skinniness'. No longer is it enough to be slim but we have to be skinny!
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Duration
A week if you can do it, but you'll get fed up after one day.
Checklist
- Restaurants: No - unless you want everyone to stare at you while you tuck into a jar of baby food
- Alcohol: No, not recommended for babies
- Caffeine: Not discussed, but undoubtedly stong black coffee is needed to keep the hunger pangs away
- Need to buy special foods: Yes, jars and jars of mush.
- OK for vegetarians: If you want to cut out yet one more food group - go ahead
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What the pros say
What a total waste of time and what a lousy idea. Grow up! Anyway pulverised baby food makes any low-ish GI food into fairly high GI food as it is absorbed more readily, and if you don't chew food after a while you will lose your teeth - very attractive.
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