The Atkins Grapefruit diet is a diet plan, not endorsed by the firm of Dr. Atkins, that plays on the fame of the grapefruit diet and the Atkins diet name. A closer inspection of this diet shows that it may not be all it purports to be.

Firstly, it’s pretty hard to find information on the Atkins grapefruit diet plan. Smart people know that when someone is perpetrating a deception, or a con, they will often gloss over facts. This is exactly what the Atkins grapefruit diet seems to do: it tries to persuade people to associate it with two purportedly effective diets.

So, is the Atkins Grapefruit Diet part of the Atkins Diet or endorsed by the firm of the late Dr. Atkins? The answer is a resounding ‘no’, not only is there no mention of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet on the Atkins website, but there is no fruit of at all mentioned in the list of allowed foods in the Atkins diet Induction phase.

The induction phase recommends the following foods:

Fish of any kinds; any fowl such as turkey and chicken; any shellfish; any meat such as beef or pork; eggs prepared in any style, including fried; cheese; vegetables; herbs and spices; fats and oils; low carbohydrate beverages, including diet soft drinks.

Notice anything? No fruit is mentioned on that list. 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 limited 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 advocates a cup of grapefruit juice or a cup of grapefruit sections, with 8 and 18 carbs respectively. Even the most generous stages of the Atkins diet recommends limiting grapefruit intake to below 8 carbs a day. That’s an exact contradiction of one diet with the other

Most intelligent people would take a look at the Atkins website itself the moment they heard of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet. If they saw no mention of that diet on the website, then a red light would flash and an alarm would sound.

In general, you should remember this: any diet that recommend too heavily on one food, such as grapefruit on a grapefruit diet, is unhealthy for all but extremely short periods. The Atkins Grapefruit Diet is not associated with the Atkins diet, and may disrupt with the results of the Atkins diet in its early phases.

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