The diet product turned out to be the Moscow Meltdown, a new diet program. It features portable food packets that, when mixed with hot water, are advertised as helping to stimulate metabolism, reduce appetite and promote rapid weight loss.
Scientists in Russia originally
created the products for the Russian
army, Corsover said. When the
troops returned, they reported they
had lost weight while still keeping
their energy up, she said.
‘‘This guy clearly did not belong at
this particular food show. Finding
this product was a total coincidence,’’
said Jerry Corsover, Susan’s husband
and co-owner of D’lites.
As a result of the happy accident,
D’lites is now the exclusive
distributor of the Moscow Meltdown
in the United States.
‘‘We are always on the lookout for
the next big diet trend,’’ said Jerry
Corsover.
Since opening its doors in 1982,
D’lites has provided dieters and
nutrition-conscience consumers with
diet products.
Renisha Glinton, 36, of Lauderhill,
has been a D’lites customer for years.
She was on the Atkins Diet and
searching for low-fat, sugar-free ice
cream when she found D’lites.
“I stopped doing Atkins but I keep
coming back to D’lites about once a
week to buy ice cream,” she said,
adding her favorite flavors are orange
creme, Snickers and Irish coffee.
A regular dieter, Glinton tried the
Moscow Meltdown for 21 days and
lost a dress size.
‘‘I went from a size 9 to a 7,’’ she
said. ‘‘I also learned to eat less.’’
The Moscow Meltdown is
packaged as a five-day program, with
instant meal packets for breakfast,
lunch, and dinner, and sells for
$49.99. Meals consist of soups,
mashed potatoes and buckwheat.
Consumers can also buy packets
individually.
‘‘You get to eat. This is not just a
liquid diet,” said Glinton, who
especially likes the mashed potato
meals. “I felt satisfied. I was
surprised.”
The program also has drinks,
including two types of coffee. One is
said to burn fat while the other
reduces appetite.
The D’lites concept was created
after Susan Corsover had her own
health troubles.
In 1978, at the age of 31, she had
her first of three open-heart
operations. Deciding to take full
advantage at her ‘‘second chance’’ at
life, she began exercising, eating
healthier and gave up the sweets and
fatty foods she loved. But she
couldn’t do without the one thing she
craved — ice cream.
She searched for a fat-free,
cholesterol-free ice cream that tasted
like the real thing, but never found it.
So she created her own and opened
D’lites with her husband, who still
works in the store every day.
“Our products must be what they
say they are,” said Jerry Corsover.
“Many of our customers are diabetic,
have heart conditions or have special
food requirements such as no salt or
sugar. We are not here to fool
anybody and we are not about to
jeopardize anyone’s health. We tell it
like it is about the products we sell.’’
After 25 years, D’lites is still going
strong. ‘‘We have always supplied
products for customers for all of the
many diets,’’ said Jerry Corsover.
‘‘We’ve seen Atkins, The Zone, South
Beach Diet, Weight Watchers —
we’ve gone through all of them. We
think the Moscow will revolutionize
the diet industry.”
D’lites is at 8251 W. Sunrise Blvd.,
Plantation. For information, call 954-340-1131, e-mail info@dlitesemporium.com
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