The Cambridge Weight Plan: How it Works.

The Cambridge Diet is a very-low-calorie diet (VLCD), as low as 330calories/day, combined with minerals, vitamins and fatty acids to reduce the loss of nutrients. The diet formula is intended to imitate the weightloss properties of starvation, while providing enough protein to protect lean tissue, the right level of carbohydrate to promote a mild ketosis and eliminate a sense of hunger, and the right levels of vitamins, minerals, trace elements and essential fatty acids to maintain good health.

When on the Cambridge diet, or, any other low calorie diet, your body goes into ketosis.

Ketosis is a normal metabolic process that occurs when your body does not have enough carbohydrates from food for your cells to burn for energy, in which case, stored fats are broken down for energy, resulting to weightloss. This is something your body does to keep working.

The aim of the Cambridge Diet is to try and burn off unwanted fat by forcing the body to rely on burning fat for energy, rather than carbohydrates.