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Posted Fri, Nov 17, 2006, 6:17 am PST
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Someone needs to drop-kick that crazy grapefruit diet off the planet.

 

Grapefruit itself, on the other hand, is practically the definition of a whole-beauty food.

  • Protects your skin.
  • Helps you breathe.
  • Is a secret ingredient in an utterly irresistible fragrance.
  • And, oh yeah, it actually does help you lose weight—though not via that extreme fad diet of 800 calories a day of nothing but black coffee, boiled eggs, and grapefruit.

Since this is the season for grapefruit, now the time to get the most out of it. Here's how: 

 Make it your skin’s main squeeze: The zest of grapefruit peel (like other citrus) is high in d-limonene, a compound that seems to keep skin cancer cells at bay. For a delicious flavor twist, grate a little grapefruit peel over salads, grilled fish, sorbets, hot tea, and sparkling water.  

Breathe easy: Grapefruit is loaded with one of the antioxidant all-stars, vitamin C, which may help explain why people who shun citrus risk of wheezing, gasping adult asthma.

 

Smell amazing: If you haven’t ever inhaled In Love Again—one of Yves Saint Laurent’s stunner scents—try it the next time you’re in a scent store. The essence of its essence is grapefruit, but I won’t even try to explain its effect. Just go, smell and bring your credit card.

Lose weight: Somewhat to the chagrin of everyone—scientists, editors, doctors, the founder of Weight Watchers, me—who ripped into the grapefruit diet for years, some highly reputable scientists recently found that people who start every meal with either half a grapefruit or a glass of grapefruit juice lose about half a pound a week. Without dieting. Or going crazy on the treadmill. Or doing anything differently except eating grapefruit like they owned Harry and David.

The apparent reason is that grapefruit contains certain plant compounds that lower insulin levels, which encourages weight loss. Whatever. Of course that crazy grapefruit diet really will never go away, but as for the rest, it’s all good.
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14 Comments

  • 1. Posted by be_rodden on Sun, Jan 14, 2007, 12:03 pm PST

    Check with your M.D. if you're on Statin drugs to lower your chlorestrol - never take your Lipitor, etc. with grape-fruit juice!!!

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  • 2. Posted by magdalina_tsering on Sun, Jan 14, 2007, 6:25 pm PST

    grape-fruif accually helps in loseing weight it really does!!!!! i was one a deit eating one grapefruit after evrey meal and exercising it helped me lose 55lbs really!!!!!

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  • 3. Posted by debrarentho on Thu, Jan 18, 2007, 4:20 am PST

    Half a grapefruit after breakfast, lunch, and dinner helped me to lose 20lbs in 3 months time.

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  • 4. Posted by idonchev on Sun, Jan 28, 2007, 2:46 pm PST

    I love grapefruit it is the best fruit for me no koment more

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  • 5. Posted by on Tue, Jul 10, 2007, 10:08 am PDT

    I'm staying away from grapefruit ! It apparently causes people to become horrible spellers !!

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  • 6. Posted by CHERYL N on Tue, Jul 10, 2007, 1:38 pm PDT

    LOL Leon K!!

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  • 7. Posted by varelalala2000 on Tue, Jul 10, 2007, 2:08 pm PDT

    is it true that grapefruit is not good when you are taking any kind of medicine? you could have serious problems ?

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  • 8. Posted by xdracinaboxx on Tue, Jul 10, 2007, 2:18 pm PDT

    So then, i have to eat half a grapefruit everyday before each meal to lose weight?? How much weight should I expect to lose and in what amount of time?

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  • 9. Posted by tocre8astar on Tue, Jul 10, 2007, 2:23 pm PDT

    Does anybody know what size "a glass" is in this case? I'm an old weight watchers girl, well, not THAT old. I'd like to try this to maybe help with those last couple (or ten) pounds that need to go. WW counts everything that goes in the mouth as points. A half cup of grapefruit juice is 1 point. So, to keep my tracking accurate I need to know if a serving size is a 1/2 cup in the real world or only in WW world. Anybody out there have a bottle of juice in the fridge with nutrition information on it? Thanks for any help. :)

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  • 10. Posted by muFi on Tue, Jul 10, 2007, 2:28 pm PDT

    a glass of grapefruit juice after breakfast is good enuff? or after every meal??

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  • 11. Posted by anne on Wed, Jul 11, 2007, 12:40 am PDT

    I like grapefruit.. When wil the spelling class begin!!!

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  • 12. Posted by flyladyemails_shannon on Fri, Jul 13, 2007, 8:58 am PDT

    The article says before a meal, everyone here is saying after. Which is it?

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  • 13. Posted by Jes on Mon, Jul 16, 2007, 1:46 pm PDT

    I'm trying it. I have been drinking 8 ounces of grapefruit juice (make sure there are no sweeteners in it at all!) BEFORE I eat breakfast and lunch. I'm also adjusting my diet to be lower in carbs and calories but nothing drastic. We'll see what happens!

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  • 14. Posted by IsaiahDeas on Wed, Jul 25, 2007, 7:17 pm PDT

    After reading the magnetic diet I try to eat grapefruit at least once a day. It is so good for you.

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