How to Follow the Sacred Heart Diet

Series Summary

Everyone wants to live a fit and healthy life, but sometimes beginning a new low fat diet can be daunting and even challenging. Changing your eating habits and learning to prepare low calorie, low fat food might be difficult to acclimate to at first, but having a solid knowledge base about the types of foods that you can enjoy without guilt and some inspiration towards creating a delicious menu full of diet-friendly meals is a great start. Healthy snacks, exercise, and a refrigerator makeover are great steps for diet beginners, and this series will help jump start your diet easily. In this free video series on nutrition, licensed dietitian Christine E. Marquette discusses several topics in relation to dieting and nutrition. Marquette begins by explaining how to follow different diets for losing as well as gaining weight. She then discusses other dietary topics, such as: the effects of folic acid on the body, the benefits of apple cider vinegar, food sensitivity tests, allergies and even natural diuretics. Watch these free videos and learn more about nutrition and dieting today.

Video Transcript

"My name is Christine Marquette, and I'm a registered dietitian with the Austin Regional Clinic, and I'm going to talk to you about the Sacred Heart Diet. The Sacred Heart Diet, is actually thought to be based on a diet, from the Cardiology Department at Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital. This is a complete hoax. It's completely false. Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital did not develop this diet, and they really don't advertise it. They don't take any credit for it. They actually are trying to convince people that this diet did not originate from their Cardiology Department. This diet is very similar to the Cabbage Soup Diet, and it's not actually a healthy method of weight loss. It's a seven day diet, where the primary food that you're eating every day, is soup. It's a vegetable soup, made with beef broth and tomatoes, carrots, onions, celery, all the basic soup type vegetables. It doesn't have any starchy vegetables in it. Day one allows you as much soup as you want, as much fruit as you want, but no bananas. Day two, allows you to have vegetables, but no starchy vegetables. Day three, is a combination of fruit and vegetables. Day four adds in a little bit of meat, and so on down the list. Again, it's very similar to the Cabbage Soup Diet, but again, remember this isn't a nutritionally sound diet. The reason why it causes weight loss, is because it is very low calorie, but as soon as you stop the diet, you will just end up gaining back all the weight that you lost, because primarily when people follow this diet, they lose a lot of water weight, but they're not actually losing any fat. As soon as they resume their normal eating habits, they actually gain back any weight that they lost, so remember, the Sacred Heart Diet, is not actually from Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital. It did not originate in their Cardiology Department, and it isn't a recommended method of weight loss."