Executive Summary about  Diet Grapefruit by Susan Gerald

The Grapefruit Diet

This Grapefruit diet is based on the premise that grapefruit has fat burning properties. Grapefruit is high in vitamin C, potassium, several carotenoids including beta-carotene. The white pith contains pectin and bioflavonoids which makes grapefruits an excellent antioxidant food.

Meals are accompanied by grapefruit. Research suggests that dieters might be more successful if they select foods with staying power like whole citrus that help curb appetite and prevent overeating.

Summary of the Grapefruit Diet

• Have half a grapefruit for breakfast – it’s virtually fat free and contains just 35 calories. Sprinkle artificial sweetener rather than sugar if you like it sweet.
• Have a glass of grapefruit juice with each meal but make sure it’s unsweetened. Allow 45 calories for a 150ml glass.
• Make a Florida cocktail and serve as a starter – peel and segment half a grapefruit and one orange and mix with a little unsweetened grapefruit juice.
• Add grapefruit to salads – it goes well with crab, prawns, chicken, avocado, red onion, celery, radicchios and spinach.
• Use grapefruit juice as a mixer for alcoholic drinks such as vodka or gin.
• For special occasions splash out 170 calories on a Sea breeze cocktail – shake 50ml vodka with 75ml each of grapefruit juice and cranberry juice.

Advantages

• It helps you shed stubborn pounds safely and easily by speeding up your metabolism, cleansing your digestive system and curbing your appetite.
• Adding grapefruit to every meal is beneficial; as grapefruit is full of vitamin C. Pink grapefruits also contain beta-carotene.

Disadvantages

• This is a very restrictive, frustrating diet.
• Its lack of variety deprives the body of calcium, iron and vitamins.
• Besides being monotonous, it is also unhealthy.
• It is based on momentary results. Regaining weight usually follows.

Grapefruit Diet Fact and Fiction!

Executive Summary about  Diet Grapefruit by Todd N. Wesley

The Grape Food diet is a fad diet if I’ve ever heard one. A diet based on grapefruit consumption for weight loss is not and should not be considered a long term diet plan. The grapefruit diet dates back to the days of early Hollywood. The grapefruit diet is intended for quick weight loss. Grapefruits are considered a low glycemic index food.

Grapefruits are eaten with each meal. Grapefruit replaces the starch in the meal. Not many calories are consumed on this diet. Let the grapefruit diet go the way of other fad diets. If special events come up often, look for a weight loss plan that offers permanent weight loss.

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Executive Summary about Grapefruit Diet by Samantha Reardon

The Grapefruit Diet

Basically the grapefruit diet is eat a grapefruit at every meal, and an enzyme is supposed to burn away body fat. The basics of the diet are as follows; consume grapefruit pulp, juice, or capsules, choose from one of many different grapefruit diet programs online or from a book, combine grapefruit diet with a strict low-calorie or other diet of your choice.

The grapefruit diet has been around since the 1930’s. The most common of these diets is basically that the dieters eat grapefruit, drink grapefruit juice, or swallow grapefruit capsules at or before meal time.

Most of the grapefruit diet plans out there require a really strict low calorie or other type diet along with the grapefruit plan. Just eat a grapefruit before you eat anything.

Grapefruit Diet, One of Slow Diet Plans

Executive Summary about Grapefruit Diet by Ruddy Gunawan

What do you know about grapefruit diet? Let me tell you, grapefruit diet is one of diet plans that tell you to always eat and drink “grapefruits” in breakfast, dinner, and lunch. It is part of the fad diets. Fad diets were very popular 20 years ago but after several researches by weight loss experts, most people left this type of diet.

Grapefruit Diet created because the “creator” believes grapefruit is effective when you mix it with all kinds of food. When you eat chickens, veggies, spinach, and other type of foods, you can also combine them with grapefruit.

Let’s say in example, if you eat 2 chickens every dinner, you now only need to eat 1 chicken and replace the other chickens with grapefruits. Grapefruits contain few calories and free from fats, that’s why they recommend this type of diet to you.

You only need to replace half of your meals with grapefruits. So in average, when you are practicing this grapefruit diet, you can lose 3-4 pounds in 2 months. Maybe you can categorize grapefruit diet as a slow diet. Yes, grapefruit diet is slow and can only help you lose 1-2 pounds every month.

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