Friday, March 13, 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. Here is some information that shows the diet may be a fraud, or at least misleading.

You'll be hard pressed to find information about the Atkins Grapefruit diet, such as any details of the company that produces it. Smart people know that when someone is perpetrating a deception, or a con, they will often gloss over facts. The Atkins grapefruit diet is purposely deceptive in its origin to convince people that it is a legitimate combination of two popular fad diets.

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.

These are the foods allowed in the Atkins diet Induction phase - sorry Atkins grapefruit diet, no fruit here: 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

Not a piece of fruit to be found. Later phases of the diet do allow fruit juice and even specifically mention grapefruit. But when compared to the amount of Grapefruit recommended on the Atkins Grapefruit Diet, again there is a disagreement.

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.

Most reasonable people would look directly at the Atkins site the moment they heard of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet. It isn't found there, and that turns off a lot of folks.

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