If you haven't heard of the grapefruit diet, I'd be surprised.The Grapefruit diet is one of the original fad diets but there's some proven truth that The Grapefruit Diet works. The Grapefruit diet dates back to the 1970's in terms of popularity and has been making a great comeback as a food that can help you burn more calories. There are differing variations of the diet out there but the premise is that by adding grapefruit or grapefruit juice to your diet, you can increase your metabolism and burn more calories. Studies have been shown that people who drink grapefruit juice or eat grapefruit over a long period of time compared to people who did not, had several pounds of weight loss.
Grapefruit is even indicated as a negative calorie food according to many who believe that some foods take more energy to process in your body than they hold in terms of caloric value which results in weight loss.
There are different schools of thought on the theory of grapefruit diets but grapefruit may be responsible as well for helping with your blood sugar levels.
There is a caution that grapefruit can be contraindicated with many drugs because it can cause your body to metabolize the drug too quickly or in a manner that delivers more into your bloodstream in the case of timed-release medicines than is safe so always err on the side of caution when taking grapefruit with any other prescription or over the counter medication and even when taking herbal supplements.
When you consider that it has a great amount of fiber and that it is chocked full of vitamin C, so long as you aren't taking it against doctor's advice or with contraindicated drugs, you can't go wrong.
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