Atkins Grapefruit Diet
The Atkins Grapefruit diet seeks to cash in on the popularity of the fad grapefruit diet and the less fad but still fad Atkins diet, although it has nothing to do with the Atkins estate or company. Don’t look now, but it may not be what people hope.
It’s a challenge to find clear cut information, such as a web site, for the Atkins grapefruit diet. One common element of cons is that clear information is generally hard to find. This is what the Atkins grapefruit diet seems to do in an attempt to get people to associate it with two supposedly effective diets.
Is the Atkins grapefruit diet something that was found locked away in a safe by the late Dr. Atkins? The answer is no, not only is there no mention of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet on the Atkins web site, but there is no fruit of any kind mentioned in the list of allowed foods in the Atkins diet Induction phase.
These are the foods allowed in the Atkins diet Induction phase - sorry Atkins grapefruit diet, no fruit here:
Seafood
All fowl such as turkey and chicken
All sorts of shellfish
Meat, such as beef and pork
Every type of cooked egg including poached, scrambled and even fried
Any variety of cheeses
Vegetables
Herbs and Spices
Butter, lard, any oils
Water and other low carb drinks including diet soda
Notice one thing - fruit is not on that list. Later phases of the Atkins diet for fat loss do allow fruit juice and even specifically mention grapefruit. But there is far more grapefruit in the Atkins Grapefruit diet than Dr. Atkins would ever dream of allowing.
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.
When they hear about the Atkins grapefruit diet people should naturally visit the Atkins web site to read more about it. When they found no mention of that diet on the site, a red light would go off and an alarm would sound.
Truth about diets review: 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 philosophy of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet is counter to that of the Atkins diet.
