The latest celebrity dieter to hit the headlines is 41-year-old actress and Friends star, Jennifer Aniston. According to recent reports, the secret to her currently svelte figures lies in – wait for it – pureed food.

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Jennifer Aniston does a Baby Food Diet

In fact, the media is going one step further in naming her diet the Baby Food Diet. Aniston doesn’t seem impressed by this media label – well, who would, when it talks about baby food? – but the fact of the matter remains that she’s said she’s eating a diet mostly made up of small portions of pureed food.

The diet idea was created for Aniston by celebrity trainer, Tracy Anderson, who’s also worked with big names such as Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. The cleanse eating plan is based on the idea of eating up to 14 small portions of pureed food throughout the day, followed by a healthy adult dinner in the evening. The purees are all made from healthy foods, such as fruits and vegetables, although Tracy Anderson was quoted as mentioning a chocolate pudding too, which doesn’t exactly sound super healthy!

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The idea of a liquid cleanse isn’t new and is something that often crops up in detox plans, but it’s not exactly the most exiting diet regime. You may get to ‘eat’ regularly throughout the day, but the portions are small and you lose all the pleasure of eating, chewing and digesting food, as practically everything is all mushed up and pureed.

Not surprisingly, when you’re eating very small amounts, the weight does come off. Jennifer Anison reportedly lost 7lbs in a week whilst doing the pureed cleanse programme. She wanted to lose a bit of extra weight before heading to Hawaii to film her latest movie, Just Go With It.

The pureed baby food cleanse diet doesn’t sound like a healthy long term diet for me, so I think I’ll be giving this one a miss. If you want to follow Aniston’s example, don’t do it for more than a couple of days at a time and remember to eat a good, healthy balanced dinner, with plenty of carbohydrates and vegetables, in the evening.