People trying the Mayo Clinic plan can also eat foods like nuts, unsaturated oils, whole grains, fish, and lean meats. Foods high in fat, like some fish and nuts, keep hunger at bay.
Pop a few nuts in your mouth as a mid-morning snack to keep from feeling hungry before lunch. Again, we are told that low fat is good for us, but there are some healthy fats, and also, fat helps you to feel full longer.
Exercising daily aids in weight loss. The heart muscle also gets some much needed exercise when the rest of our body is active.
Increased cardiovascular health lowers blood pressure and increases oxygen to the brain for clearer thinking. All of these are taken into consideration with the Mayo Clinic diet plan.
The plan also includes eating grapefruit to rev up the metabolism. It’s the grapefruit that had this plan infamously linked to the Grapefruit Diet which is a fad diet.
Grapefruits are not a miracle fruit for weight loss but they do contain properties to get the fat burning process started, which is why they are a part of the Mayo Clinic diet.
But keep in mind the warnings we mentioned in the Grapefruit diet plan about grapefruit with medications.
This is not a comprehensive plan as compared with other diets, and the recipes are not great. On the whole it is a pale imitation of the Johns Hopkins publications on weight loss. They work, and the Johns Hopkins guidelines don’t use fad diets, plus, the recipes taste great.
