Judy Mazel, the founder of the controversial Beverly Hills Diet, is dead at the age of 63, according to this article on Diet Blog. Mazel died on October 12th of complications from peripheral vascular disease.

The Beverly Hills Diet was criticized frequently by nutritionists and experts, and it's easy to see why. The main premise behind the diet was that food combinations were at the heart of weight loss. So, only one food group could be eaten at a time, and on the first 10 days of the program, dieters would eat nothing but fruit. The diet was unhealthy, bizarre and not based on real scientific evidence, but it's what Mazel says helped her lose 72 lbs and maintain a svelte 108 lbs for the remainder of her short life.

I don't know what specifically caused Mazel's death but 63 is too young to die, if you ask me.

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Have you heard of the Beverly Hills Diet? Yeah, me neither, but it's popular enough to warrant and upgrade, so Ta-Da ... The NEW Beverly Hills Diet has been unveiled. While one might assume that the traditional Beverly Hills Diet would consist of starving yourself after shamefully gorging on a salad without dressing, it's actually a somewhat sensible--albeit slight fad-ish--diet that focuses on food combinations. Here's how it works:

• Eat fruit for breakfast -- you can have an much as you want, but you must eat it by itself and you can only pick one fruit
• The next thing you eat can be a carb of your choice, which you can enjoy as much as you want of
  
• As soon as you eat a protein, the rest of your day must be 80% protein.
  
• You can combine proteins and carbs at one meal a day.
  
• You can have fats with either carbs or proteins

It sounds kind of like the Suzanne Somers Diet, except ... more confusing. Apparently you can lose up 10-15 lbs in the 35-day initiation phase, if you can keep all the rules straight, that is. To find out more about the diet, check out this article from WebMD.

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