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Dear Editor, My friends have told me about the grapefruit diet and it sounds exciting. You must drink 8 full glasses of water and you eat until you feel full. You follow their list of foods to eat along with 8 ounces of grapefruit juice to burn fat. My friend sent me the diet plan and it looks simple to follow. I can eat bacon and eggs for breakfast, salads with meats for lunch and dinner. On the surface it seems like a good diet plan but I heard it's just another fad diet plan. Can you tell me if this diet plan will work? Dear Reader, Though the grapefruit diet has some merit, it is another fad diet plan. You can not eliminate anything from the diet plan, especially bacon and eggs which is ridiculous. The grapefruit diet claims that by eating the foods they suggest, your body will burn more fat, and it restricts certain healthy vegetables. Eating their suggested combination of foods has nothing to do with burning fat or losing weight. Your body burns a certain amounts of calories per day no matter what you eat. Some foods facilitate losing weight easier than other but their suggest food list doesn't do anything special. Again, the restriction of healthy vegetables is not a safe dietary practice. The author of this diet leads you to believe that if you follow their secret formula then you will lose weight. The truth is, you can lose weight on any diet but it should be safe and feed your body the proper nutrients. Meat and veggies should be the staple of your diet for lunch and dinner with healthy between meal snacks. Eat more often. We suggest eating every 2 or 3 hours but eat small meals. There's no hocus pocus to losing weight. A healthy calorie restricted diet combined with regular walking will keep you on the road to losing all the weight want without following the ridiculous grapefruit plan.
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