Michelle Schoffro Cook, the author of The Life Force Diet is no stranger to healthy eating and weight loss. She is the author of the immensely popular Ultimate Body Detox Plan, a 4-week program that cleans the body from the inside.
The basic premise of the book is that the food we eat is deprived of health and wholesomeness. This is why most people suffer from illnesses and a lack of energy. If you want better looking skin, lustrous hair and lots of energy, then, your food must contain elements that facilitate the same.
In The Life Force Diet, Cook introduces us to a number of enzyme-rich foods that she claims can revitalize the body and the mind. Enzymes are substances that influence all the important biochemical reactions within the body. When the food is deficient in enzymes, all its biochemical reactions are affected. In addition, the body has to spend a lot of energy to create these enzymes.
This is why a diet rich in food enzymes is a must for optimum health.
The Life Force Diet is structured around a 3 week eating plan.
You will begin with the first phase by adding enzyme rich foods into your diet and abandoning all foods that are harmful to you (a list of such foods is provided). In the second week, you will carry the process forward by giving up foods like meat, dairy, processed foods and refined carbs.
But the meat of the program is in the third week when you take in what the author calls Life Force Silver Foods. These include foods like wild rice, salmon, lentils, sweet potatoes and different vegetables. During this phase, you will also learn how to curb hunger cravings and snack smart. That is, you get all the tools for optimal eating and quick weight loss.
To strengthen and enhance the production of enzymes, particularly in a time and age when people do not pay enough attention to their food, it is recommended that you take in a green food supplements like spirulina, alfalfa or wheat grass juice every day.
In addition to enzyme rich foods, the plan also recommends the intake of a host of food supplements like conenzyme Q10, probiotics and other specified products. These aid in the production of enzymes.
The Life Force Diet: A review
The diet emphasizes the importance of sound eating habits. It leans heavily on the intake of natural, healthy, wholesome foods and restricts the intake of unhealthy, fattening, processed foods.
By eating food that is natural and rich in nutrients, you can experience weight loss, increased energy levels and better health automatically. Kicking out ‘junk’ foods and depending heavily on healthy food allows people to reach nutritional balance quickly.
Life Force Diet Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Emphasizes the importance of healthy foods
- Recommended natural food improves digestion and increases immunity
- Introduces food changes slowly and therefore followers are more likely to sustain these changes
- Eliminates unhealthy food
- Introduces fibers
- Teaches effective hunger management
- Contains many delicious recipes
Cons:
- Eating guidelines are strict with little flexibility
- Requires the intake of supplements
- Maybe difficult to sustain in the long term
- No emphasis on exercise
In conclusion:
The Life Force diet is not really intended to be a diet, but an introduction to a healthy way of living. But, some people may find the diet restrictive and may not be able to sustain it for long. If followed strictly, this diet can help followers lose weight and gain health.
