Revival Slim & Beautiful Diet
Revival Slim & Beautiful Diet
by Dr. Aaron Tabor, MD
Book Review by Marilyn Green
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r. Aaron Tabor, MD, created his Revival Slim and Beautiful Diet for his mother, who, in his words, had a midlife meltdown as she went through menopause at 50. He devised a diet that was effective for her and for other women in balancing their moods, reducing or eradicating the unpleasant symptoms of menopause and renewing skin, hair and nails.
Tabor is not opposed to drugs for combating the problems of menopause, if they are necessary, but they weren’t in his mother’s case or in the cases of many women who have written to him. "If my mother did need drugs, though, I would have made sure she had soy with them," he stated. However, an unexpected result also showed up, one which has brought many women to the diet who do not need the benefits for menopause.
" It involves fruit, vegetables, soy bars, drinks and crunchies and a small, lowfat meal at night. In two weeks I lost 16 pounds."
"As women began to use the Revival Slim and Beautiful Diet, I got all kinds of reports on how well it was working, and then they would say, "Oh, and by the way, I lost 20 lbs.," he said. So he 
and his mother created the book, which not only contains the diet plan but all sorts of encouragement and tips for keeping a slim, svelte figure, good heart health and benefits to hair and skin.
Dr. Tabor, a Johns Hopkins graduate now located in Winston-Salem, NC, said the average weight loss on his system is 26-29 pounds in 16 weeks, with up to 25% reduction in belly fat during that time, improved appearance of wrinkles and skin, increase in hair silkiness, less splitting, ridging and flaking of nails and promotion of normal hormonal levels (including reduction of hot flashes), bone health and cholesterol levels.
In summary, the soy-based diet includes three small meals and three snacks, all low fat, but amazingly satisfying and very tasty. Breakfast is a protein shake or bar with fruit, midmorning is a piece of fruit; lunch is a protein shake, protein chips and (in my case) a salad; afternoon snack is a salty revival snack or a piece of fruit; dinner a hot entr e with hot vegetables and evening snack fruit again.
I tried the diet just for weight loss, and found it very easy to maintain, a welcome change from other ways of eating. It involves fruit, vegetables, soy bars, drinks and crunchies and a small, lowfat meal at night. In two weeks I lost 16 pounds.
There is room for substitution and on some days I skipped the morning snack because I wasn’t hungry and had two snacks in the afternoon because I was. The bottom line for the Rapid Weight Loss plan is two or three protein shakes or bars, five servings of fruit and vegetables and a low calorie meal, totaling about 1,200 calories a day. An interesting wrinkle is that users of the plan report no plateaus in weight reduction.
If you choose to try Tabor’s diet, be sure to place your order through www.Revivaldiet.com to get his specially created products with longer and slimmer bars than the standard Revival choices. I initially visited the general Revival Soy site and ordered, and I experienced some severe gas toward the end of my two weeks. When I switched to Tabor’s bars I had no problems, and they are delicious (I’m an addict now of the chocolate peanut radiance ones). They are more expensive than other protein bars, about $3 a bar even when you sign up for the monthly delivery, which can be cancelled at any time. In my case, the encouragement of losing so much weight while feeling much more energetic was easily worth the cost.
Dr. Tabor has written extensively on the benefits of soy in relation to heart health, weight loss, menopause symptoms, the glycemic index, Crohn’s Disease, breast cancer patients etc. He said there are no studies showing that consuming soy raises the human estrogen level and points to studies showing that the soy antioxidants don’t behave as estrogen, and have been shown to reduce density on mammograms, not increase them. He added that since 1999 the FDA has authorized the use of health claims about the role of soy protein in reducing the risk of coronary heart disease, which causes more deaths in the U.S. than any other disease, in labeling of foods containing soy protein.
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