The Atkins Grapefruit Diet

The Atkins Grapefruit diet is a diet plan, not endorsed by the firm of Dr. Atkins, that plays on the fame of the grapefruit diet and the Atkins diet name. A closer inspection of this diet shows that it may not be everything it claims to be.

First of all, it's very difficult to find information on the Atkins grapefruit diet plan. Clever people realize that when someone is perpetrating a deception, or a con, they will usually gloss over facts. This is what the Atkins grapefruit diet seems to do in an attempt to get people to associate it with two purportedly effective diets.

Is the Atkins Grapefruit Diet part of the Atkins Diet or endorsed by the estate of the late Dr. Atkins? The answer is no, not only is there no mention of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet on the Atkins website, but there is no fruit of any kind mentioned in the list of permitted foods in the Atkins diet Induction stage.

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The induction phase includes the following foodstuffs:

Fish of any types; any fowl such as turkey and chicken; any shellfish; any meat such as beef or pork; eggs prepared in any style, including fried; cheese; vegetables; herbs and spices; fats and oils; low carbohydrate beverages, including diet sodas.

Do you notice anything? No fruit is on that list. Later phases of the Atkins diet do recommend limited quantities of fruits such as cantaloupe, strawberries and even lemon juice, and the pre-maintenance and maintenance phases even specifically allow limited amounts of grapefruit. But when compared to the amount of Grapefruit recommended on the Atkins Grapefruit Diet, once more there is a discrepancy.

The Atkins Grapefruit Diet recommends a cup of grapefruit juice or a cup of grapefruit sections, with 8 and 18 carbs respectively. Even the most generous phases of the Atkins diet advocates limiting grapefruit intake to below 8 carbs per day. That's a direct contradiction of one diet with the other.

Most reasonable people would inspect the Atkins website itself the moment they heard about the Atkins Grapefruit Diet. When they found no mention of that diet on the site, a red light would go off and an alarm bell would sound.

In general, you should remember this: any diet that relies very much on one foodstuff, such as grapefruit on a grapefruit diet, is unhealthy for all but extremely short periods of time. The Atkins Grapefruit Diet is nothing to do with the Atkins diet, and may interfere with the results of the Atkins diet in its early stages.

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