What is the Atkins Grapefruit Diet?
The Atkins Grapefruit diet is a diet plan, not endorsed by the eponymous Dr. Atkins company, that tries to play on the fame of two diets: the grapefruit diet and the Atkins diet. However, a close look at this diet shows that it may not be all it claims to be.
First of all, it’s very difficult to any find information on the Atkins grapefruit diet plan at all. Smart people know that when someone is carrying out a con, they will usually skim over the facts. This is what the Atkins grapefruit diet appears to be doing while trying to get people to associate it with two seemingly effective diets.
Is the Atkins Grapefruit Diet part of the Atkins Diet or support 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 web site, but there is no fruit of any kind mentioned in the list of allowed foods in the Atkins diet Induction phase either.
The induction phase includes the following foods: fish of all kinds, all fowl such as turkey and chicken, any shellfish, any meat such as beef or pork, eggs cooked in any style including fried, cheese, vegetables, herbs and spices, fats and oils, low carbohydrate beverages including diet soft drinks.
Please, notice one thing – fruit is not on that list. Later phases of the Atkins diet do include limited amounts of fruits such as cantaloupe and even strawberries, and the pre-maintenance and maintenance phases even specifically allow small quantities of grapefruit. But when compared to the amount of Grapefruit recommended on the Atkins Grapefruit Diet, again there is a massive disagreement.
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 liberal phases of the Atkins diet recommends limiting consumption to below 8 carbs per day, with regard to grapefruit. That is a direct contradiction from one diet to the other.
Most sensible people would look directly at the Atkins website the moment they heard of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet. When they found no mention of that diet on their site, a red light would go off and an alarmbell would ring.
In general, please remember this: any diet that relies too heavily on one kind of food, such as grapefruit in a grapefruit diet, is not healthy for any but very short periods. The Atkins Grapefruit Diet is not associated with the Atkins diet, and may interfere with the results of the Atkins diet, especially in its early phases.
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