The Atkins Grapefruit Diet: What To Eat?

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. 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.

Does the Atkins grapefruit diet have anything to do with the actual Atkins diet? 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.

Here is what can be eaten in the induction phase:

An type of fish
Chicken, turkey and other fowl
Any shellfish
Meat, such as beef and pork
Eggs cooked in any style including fried
Cheese
Vegetables
Herbs and Spices
Butter, lard, any oils
Low carbohydrate beverages including diet soft drinks

Not a piece of fruit to be found. 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 when compared to the amount of Grapefruit recommended on the Atkins Grapefruit Diet, again there is a disagreement.

The Atkins Grapefruit Diet recommends a cup of grapefruit juice or a cup of grapefruit sections, with 8 and 18 carbs respectively. But the Atkins diet calls for no more than 7 grams of carbs in a day. That's a direct contradiction of one diet to the other.

Most reasonable people would look directly at the Atkins site the moment they heard of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet. It starts to sound fishy when there's no mention there.

In general remember this. Only fad diets - diets to be followed for short periods - rely heavily on one food because eating that way isn't healthy. The Atkins Grapefruit Diet is not associated with the Atkins diet, and may interfere with the results of the Atkins diet in its early phases.

By: Francisca C

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Francisca Cahyaningsih is an internet writer who has generated many articles published in the internet. She now actively writes articles for answer5wh.com/category/health-beauty. Francisca is also a bachelor of English Education Study Program, a singing coach and both Javanese and Balinese dancer. Francisca currently resides in Indonesia with her husband and son.