Leptin diets are really healthy, safe, or science-based, or is it rather just the next faux craze to sell people overpriced food supplements? We’ll try to cover each of those points.
The leptin diet is indeed pretty new as it’s based on the 1994 discovery of the leptin hormone. The discovery was made by the clinical nutritionist Byron J. Richards who determined that leptin is a hormone produced by the body’s fat stores.
1. Don’t eat before sleep/after dinner2. Don’t go over 3 meals a day3. Make sure each meal is moderate in size 4. The breakfast is an important meal 5. You should cut back on the carbohydrates but still eat some.
The leptin diet is very well balanced. This allows you to eat diverse and delicious food as long as it’s healthy – lots of vegetables and salads, lean meats and fish, fruits (berries, in particular), whole grains and legumes, and so on.
The key thing to remember when looking at a new diet is that every person is different. What works wonderfully for some can be outright life-threatening for others. This extreme is not the case here, of course, as the leptin diet is pretty well-balanced.