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By Mayo Clinic Staff. The South Beach Diet is a popular weight-loss diet created in 2003 by cardiologist Arthur Agatston and outlined in his best-selling book, The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss.. The South Beach Diet is a commercial weight-loss diet.
So the South Beach Diet eliminates carbs with a high glycemic rate, such as refined sugars and processed grains, in favor of unprocessed foods such as vegetables, beans, and whole grains. The South Beach Diet also replaces foods heavy in saturated fats with foods rich in unsaturated fats and omega-3 fatty acid. The South Beach Diet has three distinct phases: 1  Phase 1: Lasts two weeks, during which all sugars, all fruits, and most carbohydrates are banned. 2  You also cannot drink any alcohol, including beer and wine, during the first phase. 3  Phase 2: The weight loss phase.