The Beauty Diet was created by Lisa Drayer, a registered dietitian and health reporter, who is a regular contributor to CNN. Drayer also maintains a private practice in New York City, where she has helped many people improve their health and achieve their weight loss goals, including television celebrities, models, politicians and executives.
In her book, , she highlights ten basic foods that she says will not only make you look and feel better, but will also help you to lose excess weight.
Drayer introduces dieters to the ten foods that she says will enhance natural beauty and promote easier weight loss. These foods provide important nutrients required by your body for optimal cellular function and repair.
According to Drayer, “These foods give your body the materials it needs to keep you healthy, radiant, vibrant and young — so you have delicate, soft skin, thick, shiny hair, long, smooth fingernails, clear, bright eyes, and a brilliant, gleaming smile.” For each of the foods she goes into detail about the nutritional components they contain and how they work to enhance specific elements of health and beauty.
She advises dieters to include at least one of these foods with every meal or snack while following a 1500-calorie diet. In addition to the top ten beauty foods dieters are recommended to eat a wide variety of fresh foods each day.
The Beauty Diet provides a four-week meal plan with over 100 recipes. The meal plan includes three meals and two snacks daily. Also included are beauty tips such as explaining why it is necessary to use slightly acidic topical treatments, the connection between vitamin B12 and gray hair and a recipe for a homemade facial mas.k
Wild salmon, low-fat yogurt, oysters, blueberries, kiwifruit, sweet potatoes, spinach, tomatoes, walnuts, dark chocolate, green tea, egg whites, feta cheese, goat cheese, turkey, avocado, figs, almonds, whole wheat bread.
