Do You Try It? The O2 Diet.

The New Year is just around the corner and so are the fads, the fixes and the far out things like the Cookie Diet of the Stars or whatever that all promise to get you in tip-top shape.

With all the exercise you might find yourself doing in the coming weeks those resolutions fanning the flames of discipline, it's good to exercise a little caution, too, when it comes to jumping at the next big thing. To that end, let's take a look at the O2 Diet, which Fit Sugar examines here.

Nutritionist Keri Glassman wrote the diet book based on the idea that eating high-ORAC (oxygen radical absorption capacity) level foods (like chia seeds) will make you "healthy, thin and beautiful." High ORAC foods are purported to help raise the antioxidant levels of human blood, so the boost you'll get will be good for your health.

So it's not so much a "diet" in the traditional sense because nary a calorie is counted and foods aren't restricted. Rather, Glassman suggests taking in 30,000 ORAC points a day, so if you're eating a well-balanced diet containing colorful foods like blueberries, pomegranates and even dark chocolate, you're probably doing a pretty good job on your own.

The book includes recipes and a four-day fast, which may be the real key to getting "thin" eating super-antioxidants.

Thin and beautiful? Sure, that's cool but genuinely good health is the best reward of all.

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