Diet plan uses color to optimize weight maintenance and health
by Anonymous

Dulles, VA August, 2003 -- Nutritionists have long advocated eating a wide spectrum of colorful foods to optimize health and longevity. It has been proven time and time again that eating a variety of colors, from leafy greens to deep red tomatoes and berries, to oranges and carrots and beyond, is the best way to maintain your health.

Celebrated artist Mindy Weisel, together with a her daughters Carolyn, a nutritionist, and Jessica, an esthetician, have taken that concept one step further to create THE 7-DAY COLOR DIET: The New Way to Health and Beauty. Complete with a 7-Day Color Diet Plan, a maintenance plan, more than 100 recipes and seven days of colorful beauty treatments and tips¡V¡VTHE 7-DAY COLOR DIET is an effective eating plan to lose weight and gain health.

THE 7-DAY COLOR DIET is a moderate calorie, moderate carbohydrate diet, based on fresh fruits, vegetables, proteins, and complex carbohydrates. In the 7-Day Color Diet plan, each day is assigned a color: White, Red, Green, Orange, Purple, Yellow, and Rainbow. For each color, a menu plan is presented incorporating foods of that color.

"When it comes to natural, unprocessed foods, you can often gauge how healthy your diet is just by the number of brightly colored fruits and vegetables present," says nutritionist Carolyn Weisel Miller, M.S., R.D. "Besides making a pretty plate, it has been proven that there are significant nutrients in the colored pigments of the natural foods that host a variety of health promoting benefits."

In THE 7-DAY COLOR DIET, there is a core of white foods in the diet. To this basic core, fruits and vegetable of different colors are added on each successive day.

For example, on Green day, dieters can choose from salads such as Oriental Cucumber Salad or Spinach Mushroom Salad with Yogurt Dill dressing; Yellow day offers Tropical Tuna Salad and Yellow Squash Soup. "The daily variation of the color of foods selected provides variety to your eyes and to your taste buds," Mindy Weisel says. "It also serves as your basic eating control."

The 7-day color diet is based on simple planning and healthy, colorful cooking. "All the decisions that normally plague dieters have been made for you. All you have to do is follow the daily diet for the particular color day you are on," Mindy says. Meals on the diet are easy to prepare, and unlike other diet plans, the 7-day color diet will not in any way interfere with your lifestyle.

"You can eat out, entertain, feed your family, and use the diet at work. There is no magic involved; it is simply a fun way to get thin and stay thin."

There are a number of advantages to THE 7-DAY COLOR DIET:

It is not monotonous

Those following the plan will not feel deprived, which increases the chances of success

There is no measurement of food or counting of calories

It advocates an ¡§everything in moderation¡¨ approach to dieting¡Xthere are no ¡§forbidden¡¨ foods

Overall health is improved on this plan

It includes beauty treatments based on color to improve skin health as well as lose weight

The addition of a skin care regimen makes THE 7-DAY COLOR DIET different than other diet books. Developed by registered esthetician Jessica Weisel Courtney, the book contains easy, color-based, at-home beauty treatments for all skin types are outlined. "The many fresh fruits and vegetables and low-fat proteins included in The 7-Day Color Diet will do much on their own to make your skin healthier and more beautiful," Jessica says. "Just as our body benefits from the nutrients and enzymes found in different colored foods and fruits, so does our skin. These enzymes work to give us a brighter, healthier complexion. They also encourage the development of stronger, fresher layers of healthy skin cells." Throughout the book are suggestions for color-based exfoliating, moisturizing, and clarifying treatments that promise to leave skin healthy and glowing.

"THE 7-DAY COLOR DIET is a health-conscious plan that debunks the fads and gets your body into the best shape of your life," Mindy Weisel says. "It is a positive tool that can help you lose weight and keep it off."

Mindy Weisel's art hangs in museums and institutions around the world, including the Smithsonian, Hirshhorn Museum, National Museum of American Art, Israel Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, and the U.S. Capitol. The New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, Art News, and more have reviewed her work.

In 1980, she wrote The Rainbow Diet, a book outlining a diet based on color. She lives in Washington, D.C. Carolyn Weisel Miller, M.S., R.D., is a clinical nutritionist with a practice in New York City. Jessica Weisel Courtney, a licensed esthetician, is the founder of Hydra Skincare Studio in Miami, Florida.




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