Atkins Grapefruit Diet
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. Don't look now, but it may not be what people hope.
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. The Atkins grapefruit diet is purposely deceptive in its origin to convince people that it is a legitimate combination of two popular fad 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.
{The induction phase includes the following foods|Here is what can be eaten in the induction phase|These are the foods allowed in the Atkins diet Induction phase ' sorry Atkins grapefruit diet, no fruit here:
Fish of all kinds
All fowl such as turkey and chicken
Shellfish of any variety
Meat, such as beef and pork
Eggs cooked in any style including fried
Any variety of cheeses
Any vegetable you can name
A variety of herbs and spices
A variety of fats and oils including butter
Water and other low carb drinks including diet soda
Not a piece of fruit to be found. Later phases of the diet do allow fruit juice and even specifically mention grapefruit. But there is far more grapefruit in the Atkins Grapefruit diet than Dr. Atkins would ever dream of allowing.
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 severe disagreement.
A smart person would immediately peruse the Atkins web site in search of the Atkins Grapefruit diet. When they found no mention of that diet on the site, a red light would go off and an alarm would sound.
Don't forget the following. Any diet that relies too heavily on one food or food group is going to be unhealthy. The Atkins diet frowns on eating the way the Atkins Grapefruit Diet recommends.