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.
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
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