The Atkins diet has become one of the most popular diet plans followed by men and women trying to lose weight all over the world. This is because of its effectiveness to help people to not only lose weight but also keep the weight off permanently.
It has also become extremely popular since it is one of the few diets that have been recommended and backed by medical professionals so much that even individuals with cardiovascular diseases and diabetes are able to benefit from using this diet. Because of this diet's popularity, there have been a number of variations now being promoted as a form of spin off to the original. One of these is the Atkins grapefruit diet.
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This new spin off grapefruit diet, in every sense, resembles very much the original Atkins diet such that it still restricts the amount of carbohydrates taken in by the individual during the first few stages of the diet program. Only during the last part of the diet program would the Atkins grapefruit diet allow the re-introduction of certain types of carbohydrates into the individual's diet.
What makes the Atkins grapefruit diet what it is, is the introduction of grapefruit during the initial stages of the diet program. Grapefruit has long been considered as a great fruit to accompany any diet plan. This is because grapefruit contains a number of different properties that help the body burn fat faster and as such increases the body's metabolic rate leading to you losing weight easier. Although this may be the case, there are a number of Atkins diet purists that have considered the Atkins grapefruit diet as a hoax.
This is because despite the fact that grapefruit does promote fat burning hormones to be produced in order to help you lose weight faster, grapefruits contain low amounts of carbohydrates and sugars, which are supposedly restricted during the first stages of the original Atkins diet. As such, Atkins diet purists are claiming that the Atkins grapefruit diet to be different to the main concept of the original Atkins diet. In spite of the contradiction, the Atkins grapefruit diet has proven to be just as effective in helping people lose weight and keep the weight off permanently as the original Atkins diet. As a result, supporters of the spin off grapefruit diet have disputed that it is not a hoax.
Rather, it is merely a variation of the original Atkins diet to meet the needs of certain types of people. Particularly those that need a steady supply of sugars and carbohydrates for health reasons such as those people who are suffering from hypoglycemia.