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Information About The Atkins Grapefruit Diet |
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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. A closer look into this diet shows that it may not be all it claims to be.
First of all it's pretty difficult to find information on the Atkins grapefruit diet plan. Hard to find information is a pretty good tip off that a con job is being perpetrated. 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? 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.
Here is what can be eaten in the induction phaseThese are the foods allowed in the Atkins diet Induction phase – sorry Atkins grapefruit diet, no fruit here:
Seafood
Chicken, turkey and other fowl
All sorts of shellfish
Meat, such as beef and pork
Eggs cooked in any style including fried
All sorts of cheese
Any vegetable you can name
Any herbs and spices to make food more exciting
Butter, lard, any oils
Water and other low carb drinks including diet soda
Unfortunately for the Atkins grapefruit diet, there no fruit. Later phases of the Atkins diet do include limited amounts of fruits such as cantaloupe and even lemon juice, and the pre-maintenance and maintenance phases even specifically allow small quantities of grapefruit. But there is far more grapefruit in the Atkins Grapefruit diet than Dr. Atkins would ever dream of allowing.
There's a lot of grapefruit in the Atkins grapefruit diet – up to 18 carbs. Even the phases of Atkins that allow grapefruit limit intake to below 8 grams of carbs of grapefruit per day. the two diets just don't mesh.
When they hear about the Atkins grapefruit diet people should naturally visit the Atkins web site to read more about it. It isn't found there, and that turns off a lot of folks.
Don't forget the following. Any diet that relies too heavily on one food, such as grapefruit on a grapefruit diet, is unhealthy in any but extremely short periods. The philosophy of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet is counter to that of the Atkins diet.
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