The Beverly Hills Medical Diet Author:Arnold Fox The Beverly Hills Diet is a weight loss regimen developed by author Judy Mazel (1943-2007) in her 1981 bestseller, The Beverly Hills Diet. The six-week long program, which begins with 10 days of eating fruit exclusively, has been the target of criticism from the medical community. Mazel had tried and failed to lose weight with existing programs,... more » and developed the diet plan after spending six months working together with a nutritionist in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Under her program, she was able to trim down from a weight of 180 pounds (82 kg) to 108 pounds (49 kg), having struggled with her weight since childhood. After completing development of the program and returning to Los Angeles, she opened a weight-loss clinic whose clients included a number of celebrities.« less