What in the world is the MUFA diet? That’s what I thought when I first saw it. It is apparently an acronym for a rather unknown diet called the Mono Unsaturated Fatty Acids diet. It has been known as a fad diet, and it generally has been featured on shows like Good Morning America, which I never watch and would explain why I’ve never heard of it before this. Either way, they rave about it, and they call it the next big trend in celebrity weight loss.
They claim that a thin body and flat belly is all about the food and attitude, period, end of story. To some degree this is true. But then they claim “Not a single crunch required.” In short, they are saying that you don’t need exercise, which is unfortunately not true, or else I would be amazingly skinny by now, unhealthily so actually. Exercise is required, though sensible eating certainly helps too. One cannot be complete without its other half.
There have been other fad diets such as the chocolate diet, which is actually based off the chocolate plant which tastes rather different than the chocolate you are used to eating, even dark chocolate at the grocery store. But they claim that you can eat five basic groups: oil, nuts, seeds, avocados, olives, and chocolate. Sorry to say. But as much as this sounds like the diet of the century, it doesn’t work the way you think. You need diet AND exercise, and it doesn’t work with the foods they are prescribing.