Atkins Grapefruit Diet - Is it a Hoax?

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All About This Diet

One of the urban legends has been that eating grapefruit at each meal will melt the pounds away. Is this true or simply a hoax? The Grapefruit diets have been around for 70 years believe it or not. Before I get into what grapefruit can do for the body, it is essential to understand what exactly the grapefruit diet is. The grapefruit diet is not a diet that consists of eating only grapefruit for a short amount of time, like the cabbage diet or a soup diet. The Atkins grapefruit diet has now taken it a step further by incorporating grapefruit into their famous diet.

So How Is It A Hoax

The theory goes that grapefruit contains a special enzyme that really burns fat. Grapefruit is simply high in fiber, high protein, low in sugar and contains no trans fats. However, Atkins' menus average 60-75% of calories from fat and contain no fruit. You see how the Atkins diet can appeal to many people? One reason this diet gets is popular is that the diet does work to cause weight loss and the conventional diet is so unhealthy and fattening that people need to do something that works.

First of all, physicians from the American Heart Association are extremely worried because a high-animal protein and high-fat diet is damaging the heart condition and blood vessels' health (blood flow and blood clots especially). Dr Atkins' theory is really quite simple: when you cut out carbohydrates, your body is forced into burning its fat stores to provide it with energy; as you burn more calories when your body burns fat compared with carbohydrate, you'll lose weight more quickly

Some nutritionists define a fad diet by a series of questions rather than assessing it popularity. Why do you lose weight at first but then gain it all back? This diet promises a quick fix, but is there really a quick fix when we are talking about your health?