Jorge CruiseFounder & CEO, Zero Hunger Water · Founder & CEO | Zero Hunger Water — Science-backed appetite control | 13× NYT Bestselling Author

The Dr. Oz Show

10 Feb 2016 · 2 min

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In a holiday‑focused segment of The Dr. Oz Show, Dr. Oz introduces celebrity trainer Jorge Cruise, who shares his approach to staying "tiny in all the right places" during the festive season. Cruise advocates a "wake‑up vegan" strategy, emphasizing that a part‑time vegan breakfast can deliver detoxifying, skin‑brightening, and waist‑slimming benefits without requiring a full‑time commitment. He outlines his go‑to morning parfait—coconut yogurt topped with kiwi, blueberries, and granola—as a fruit‑and‑protein combo that fuels the body. Cruise then highlights pea protein powder as his "best secret," noting that a single scoop can suppress hunger for up to four hours, making it an effective vegan tool for weight control. Throughout the interview, both hosts maintain a conversational, upbeat tone while promoting these specific dietary recommendations as practical holiday weight‑loss solutions.

For so many of you, being tiny in all the right places is at the top of your holiday wish list. Whether you've been naughty or nice this year, your wish is gonna come true because celebrity trainer Jorge Cruise is here. He's gonna show us how to get tiny while still eating during the holidays.
Hey, Doctor Oz. How are you? Nice to see you.
Nice to see you. Natural weight loss, you argue, has a lot to do with eating the right foods at breakfast, specifically Waking up vegan, which I know a lot of you guys can get freaked out by, but why is that critical?
Well, what the research has shown, and I work with a lot of A-listers that don't have any time and they want the best information, and what the information has shown, if you can wake up vegan, you get the best food that is healthy, clean, detoxifying, and best of all, you don't have to do it full-time. You can be a part-time vegan and you get all the benefits, younger skin, more energy, it detoxifies you, and best of all, you get tiny in all the right places. Places, especially the waist. Now let me start off with this because it's really about fruit and protein. And the protein I like in the morning is coconut yogurt. You pair that up with some kiwis and blueberries, a little granola, you have a perfect morning parfait. Very, very exotic tasting.
Very exotic, right?
And finally, the protein. And then this one, this is my best secret, this is the best thing in LA right now. Like everyone in LA knows pea protein. They're not doing any other proteins right now. Pea protein is stellar because it's vegan, of course, it's plant-based, but best of all, it's been shown One scoop will keep your hunger away all morning long, and that's powerful because it's up to 4 hours. Very easy.
But protein for breakfast makes sense anyway.