Grapefruit Diet

No one knows who first created the Grapefruit Diet, but since it first emerged it's drifted in and out of being vogue, usually brought back into the spotlight by a celebrity on a diet who decide to try one of the dozens of variations. The mainstay of the diet revolves around eating half a grapefruit or drinking an eight-ounce glass of unsweetened grapefruit juice before each meal. Proponents of the diet claim that grapefruit has a fat-burning enzyme, helping you eliminate fat, and their claims may not entirely off. A study from a 2006 issue of the ‘Journal of Medicinal Food' revealed that people who ate half a grapefruit before each meal for 12 weeks lost 3.6 pounds. Likewise, people who drank a serving of grapefruit juice three times a day lost 3.3 pounds. However, many individuals in that study lost more than 10 pounds. Researchers suggest that grapefruit may lower insulin, which is a fat storage hormone. Yet it's important to note that in this study, individuals ate healthy, balanced diets and could exercise up to three times a week. Note that this is substantially different from the Grapefruit Diet, which takes an unhealthy approach to weight loss and will inevitably set people up for diet failure.