Ageing With Attitude: Reboot with a liquid diet of coconut water
WE are accustomed to women embarking on liquid diets and swopping weight-loss stories, but the prospect of a group of Irish men sipping coconut water together instead of pints, and rejecting solid food for a week, stretches the imagination.
However, that’s exactly what London-based Cork doctor Dermot O’Flynn is managing to achieve, as several Irishmen aged 50 and over, accompany him on bespoke detox programmes to his idyllic home in Brazil, where they live off a liquid regime of water, coconut water, herbal tea and miso soup for the week, and do four to six hours’ exercise daily.
