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. Here is some information that shows the diet may be a fraud, or at least misleading.
You’ll be hard pressed to find information about the Atkins Grapefruit diet, such as any details of the company that produces it. Smart people know that when someone is perpetrating a deception, or a con, they will often gloss over facts. The Atkins Grapefruit diet is purposely deceptive in its origin to convince people that it is a legitimate combination of two popular fad diets.
Does the Atkins Grapefruit diet have anything to do with the actual Atkins diet? No, in fact the Induction phase of the Atkins diet is bereft of fruit, and there’s no mention of the grapefruit version on the Atkins web site.
These are the foods allowed in the Atkins diet Induction phase – sorry Atkins Grapefruit diet, no fruit here:
An type of fish
Chicken, turkey and other fowl
Shellfish of any variety
Any meat such as beef or pork
Eggs cooked in any style including fried
Cheese
All sorts of vegetables
A variety of herbs and spices
Butter, lard, any oils
Drinks low in carbohydrates such as diet soft drinks
Unfortunately for the Atkins Grapefruit diet, there no fruit. 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. Even the most generous phases of the Atkins diet, when it comes to grapefruit, recommends limiting intake to below 8 carbs per day. the two diets just don’t mesh.
Most reasonable people would look directly at the Atkins site the moment they heard of the Atkins Grapefruit diet. It isn’t found there, and that turns off a lot of folks.
Don’t forget the following. Only fad diets a