The F2 Diet

Author, Audrey Eaton offers her latest book, The F2 Diet. On the front cover stands the claim, this diet is a “Big Bio Breakthrough.”

What that means is this diet offers you a well-balanced way of increasing fiber, eating foods used by the body for natural elimination.  Replacing bad bacteria in the gut with good bacteria, this diet claims to be the “fastest, healthiest weight loss program on the market today.”

The book is printed in large, colorful text and once you wade through the first couple of chapters, the rest of the book is easy to follow.

The author starts with an ominous warning that obese people are susceptible to high-risk diseases including cancers, clogged arteries, heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, diabetes and more.

The F2 Diet lowers this risk by:

• Removing excess fat quickly.
• Allowing you to lose weight without suffering “hunger pangs.”
• Arming your body with a surplus of good bacteria too help cleanse your system.
• Guarding you against cancers.
• Reinstating your “inner health.”
• Removing life-threatening waste matter.
• Lowering your cholesterol.
• Slowing down the release of sugar in your bloodstream.
• Giving you brain food.

Women appear to crave sweets more then men due to hormones. Ms. Eaton makes a further observation that she believes the reason women are drawn to the sweeter foods in life is because women were the original hunter/gatherers of long tube roots, thus genetically women want sugar more than men. She also cites the unfair advantage that men have when they diet. They can lose weight by eating more calories than a woman.

The premise of the F2 Diet is simple; an increase of fiber-enriched foods, an elimination of processed foods, alcohol and other high- calorie drinks.

Colonic cleansers are discussed but not routinely encouraged. The reason being once you drink these elixers they will rid your body of bad bacteria, but they also flush out the good bacteria.

The F2 Diet contains fresh vegetables, homemade soups and salads, beans, lentils, probiotic drinks, and some fruit. For those who crave sugar, honey is recommended. No fiber supplements are available in The F2 Diet. The fiber is found naturally in the foods.  Ms. Eaton calls this fiber “dietary fiber” for its ability to hold water once introduced into the body.

Nowhere in the book does it mention consulting your doctor before attempting this diet. There is no correlation between the cravings of sweets possibly being a magnesium deficiency in the body, something I learned recently in my life.

The diet she lines out is really just common sense, although the encouragement to eat greenish bananas does seem odd.

The foods suggested: grapefruit, whole-grain cereal, soups and salads, whole-meal breads, grain-based foods, fish instead of meat, water, low calorie teas seems sensible and has been addressed in other diets over the years. Is this a revolutionary diet, or just the diet of the month? That is up to the readers to determine should they decide to embark on the F2 Diet Plan.