Tuesday, March 3, 2009

How Useful Is The Atkins Grapefruit Diet?

By Slim Slater

The Atkins Grapefruit diet is a diet plan, not endorsed by the estate of Dr. Atkins, that plays on the popularity of the grapefruit diet and the Atkins diet name. Don't look now, but it may not be what people hope.

You'll be hard pressed to find information about the Atkins Grapefruit diet, such as any details of the company that produces it. Hard to find information is a pretty good tip off that a con job is being perpetrated. This possible con does it's best to make people assume it has something to do with the official Atkins diet.

Does the Atkins grapefruit diet have anything to do with the actual Atkins diet? Nope - the Atkins company doesn't mention the diet on its web site, and the most critical phase of the famous diet called the Induction phase does not allow any fruit.

The induction phase includes the following foods: Fish of all kinds All fowl such as turkey and chicken Any shellfish Meat, such as beef and pork Eggs cooked in any style including fried All sorts of cheese All sorts of vegetables Any herbs and spices to make food more exciting A variety of fats and oils including butter Low carbohydrate beverages including diet soft drinks

Fish of all kinds Flying game such as turkey and chicken Shellfish of any variety Beef, pork and other meats Every type of cooked egg including poached, scrambled and even fried All sorts of cheese All sorts of vegetables Herbs and Spices A variety of fats and oils including butter Water and other low carb drinks including diet soda

Fish of all kinds All fowl such as turkey and chicken Any shellfish Meat, such as beef and pork Eggs cooked in any style including fried All sorts of cheese All sorts of vegetables Any herbs and spices to make food more exciting A variety of fats and oils including butter Low carbohydrate beverages including diet soft drinks

There's a lot of grapefruit in the Atkins grapefruit diet - up to 18 carbs. Even the most generous phases of the Atkins diet, when it comes to grapefruit, recommends limiting intake to below 8 carbs per day. the two diets just don't mesh.

The cup of grapefruit juice offered by the Atkins Grapefruit diet has 8 grams of carbs while the cup of grapefruit sections it mentions has 18 carbs. Even the phases of Atkins that allow grapefruit limit intake to below 8 grams of carbs of grapefruit per day. That's a severe disagreement.

Keep this in mind. Only fad diets - diets to be followed for short periods - rely heavily on one food because eating that way isn't healthy. The Atkins Grapefruit Diet is not associated with the Atkins diet, and may interfere with the results of the Atkins diet in its early phases. - 15438

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