"Maker's Diet"

Information and Review

The Maker's Diet was created by Jordan S. Rubins. It is a religious diet that is based on the author's interpretation of Biblical principles to observe God's dietary laws: Eat any fish with fins and scales but avoid fish or water creatures without them. You should avoid smooth-skinned species such as catfish or eel and hard-shelled crustaceans such as crab, lobster, and clams. You can eat the meat of animals with a cloven or split hoof that also chew the cud such as cows, goats, sheep, oxen, deer, and buffalo. Do not eat pigs, which have divided hooves. They do not chew the cud and are not clean animals.

The Maker’s Diet also focuses on combating insulin, infection, and inflammation. By balancing insulin, the diet is supposed to improve physical, mental, and emotional health. Balancing your blood sugar will also result in sharpening your concentration and enhance your mood, the plan promises. By reducing infection, you will decrease the toxic burden of germs that you encounter. Other benefits promised are decreases in aches and pains and decrease risk factors for such diseases as heart disease and cancer.

As a person who thought he had seen everything in the world of weight loss, the Maker's Diet makes me scratch my head. There are basically few unique diet and weight loss regimens that exist, but within each category (ie. low-fat, low carb, vegetarian, herbal pills) there are hundreds that attempt to re-package and market the basic concepts in a different way. This diet is no different. Just in the marketing of this diet you know it is basically a low-fat, complex carbohydrate diet, which is more-or-less the Food Guide Pyramid.

For me, this diet makes something simple complicated, while infusing religious guilt. And they have plenty of other products to sell you. For me as a Christian it is simple, treat others like you'd like to be treated, and in weight loss, eat balanced nutrition and add exercise to your daily life. Your mind, body and spirit will do great and you'll save money.