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Description: A subtropical citrus fruit with white, pink and red pulps of varying sweetness. / A citrus fruit with either white or ... more
Grapefruit ... pink pulp.

Newest Review: ... is. You have to have grapefruit with pretty much everything and drink lots of grapefruit juice, and not take in more than 800 calories a day! Thats starvation! More recently however there has been scientific proof that grapefruit has fat burning qualities, and just adding it to your diet without changing anything else can help weight loss. In a study of 100 obese people over a 12 week ... more

 ... period, the average amount of weight lose was 3.6lbs. When you consider that no other change to their diet was made, it is a good result. So for anyone wanting to lose weight, a good way to do it would be to improve your diet, and reduce your amount of suga...more

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Steve80
Premium Review Grapefruit. Good or Evil? (312 words)
by - written on 22/05/09 (Very useful, 11 readings)
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When I was growing up in the 80s, some of my aunties and friends mums used to swear by grapefruit as being a great way to lose weight. They used to do what was known as the grapefruit diet. The only effect that I noticed was that they were always complaining that they were tired. No wonder! I have recently looked up what a grapefriut diet actually is. You have to have grapefruit with pretty much everything and drink lots of grapefruit juice, and not take in more than 800 calories a day! Thats starvation! More recently however there has been scientific proof that grapefruit has fat burning qualities, and just adding it to your diet without ...  Read the complete review

 

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