The Hay Diet

This diet began when Dr. Hay was suffering from serious heart and kidney disease and his prognosis for living much longer was not good. Having been faithful to traditional medicine, he turned to the naturopaths for answers he couldn’t find in the medical model.

What resulted was a way to maintain optimum health by eating the right foods in the right combination. It hints at the concentration of a macrobiotic diet, with its concentration on making sure the alkaline and the acid in the body is in proper balance.

Hay classified foods into three types, including Alkali-forming foods, concentrated proteins (acid-forming foods), and concentrated carbohydrates (acid-forming foods).

A dieter faithful to the Hay Diet will design the majority of their food intake around salads, fruits and vegetables. This is the staple of a Hay Diet. This should be complimented by smaller portions of proteins, starches and and fats. It is important to eliminate all refined sugars and starches from the diet, such as white, refined sugar, white flour and margarine.

The website featuring the Hay Diet, hosted by the Netfit Team, outlines the diet and its benefits. It provides a downloadable food chart for committed Hay dieters to keep track of what they are eating. It also promotes combining the diet with exercise with a walk chart and a calorie expenditure chart, outlining how many calories different sports and physical activities burn.

What the website does not do is cite research to support the weight loss theory of Dr. Hay and shows no customer testimonials. There are other diet program websites which provide much more information to potential users. It spells out general philosophy of the diet plan but gives no model for a newcomer to the Hay Diet to follow.

• Downloadable Food Diary
• Downloadable Walk Chart
• Downloadable Calorie Expenditure Chart

• Provides chart of foods that should not be eaten together
• Forms for dieter to use to keep track of food intake and exercise>br>

• Not accessible to those outside of the UK, as a personal trainer is needed for more details
• Website does have the detail it could, which could eliminate the use of a personal trainer if they had an online plan to follow
• Offers no phone number to call, even for those in UK

In conclusion, we feel as though the Netfit Team’s website is not reliable, as it does not put the effort forward required in providing a thorough plan of the actual Hay Diet. Because it offers 13 other diet plans at the website, it suggests that they may not have expert knowledge on how to guide someone through the Hay Diet as a personal trainer—a jack of all trades, but a master of none is the vibe here.

The program emphasizes exercise, but does not give any specific guidelines on the website, thus requiring a dieter to pay for a personal trainer. There are other online programs which offer dieting and workout guidelines. If a consumer does not have time and dedication to give to an online plan, they can also try a weight loss supplement in a capsule form. Products which contain the appetite suppressant herb, Hoodia, along with a patented metabolism booster may augment any weight loss program.