The Grapefruit Diet

The Grapefruit Diet is one of the fad diets that were really popular
back in the 1980s although it has been in one form or another since
1930. Most of the time, the grapefruit diet has been discounted by
experts as dangerously unbalanced or simply unable to deliver on its
promises. It was generally thought that consuming vast quantities of
grapefruit cannot influence weight loss in any way, which relegated
this diet to the status of yet another fad, one of those things people
go crazy about without any real reason. However, time has passed and
new discoveries are about to rock the traditional view.

The basic idea behind this diet is to eat grapefruit whenever you can,
drink a glass of unsweetened grapefruit juice with every meal, add
grapefruit to cocktails and also to salads. Grapefruit is supposed to
go well with the lean meat from crab and chicken and with vegetables,
such as red onions, spinach and celery. The biggest advantage is, of
course, the fact that grapefruit is virtually fat-free and has few
calories. An entire grapefruit has about 70 calories, which means that
you can eat about as much as you can stomach and still lose weight.

The best thing about the Grapefruit Diet is a recent study carried out
by a team of scientists led by Doctor Ken Fujioka, from the Nutrition
and Metabolic Research Center of the Scripps Clinic in San Diego. The
study has found that, contrary to the opinions voiced by experts in
the 1980s, adding grapefruit and grapefruit juice to your diet can
actually help you lose weight. And what's really great about it: you
don't have to change your eating habits at all. Naturally, eating less
fat and sweets and doing some exercises is a very good way of speeding
up the weight loss process, but you don't have to go out of your way
with this diet.

According to the study, eating half a grapefruit before each meal and
exercising a bit every day helped a group of obese people drop an
average 3.6 pounds in 12 weeks without any change in their eating
habits whatsoever. A second group had to drink a glass of grapefruit
juice before every meal and lost 3.3 pounds in the same 12 weeks.
While it's true that losing 1 pound per month gives a whole new
meaning to the phrase "slow diet", you have to appreciate a diet that
lets you eat whatever you like and still shed a pound per month. If
weight loss is not a stringent affair, then you can stick to this diet
for a long time and reap the benefits.

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