Grapefruit Diet - For Real

Have a glass of grapefruit juice before your next cookie swap, and you may actually give away more goodies than you eat this year. When obese adults who were dieting ate half a grapefruit or drank a half cup of grapefruit juice or a half cup of water 20 minutes before each of their three daily meals, they all experience significant drops in weight, BMI and waist circumference, losing an average of 15 pounds over the course of 12 weeks, a Vanderbilt University study found. But the juice drinkers also reported less hunger compared with the water sippers. And – important for your heart – both grapefruit group (juice and whole fruit) experienced a significant jump in good HDL cholesterol, a boost that could make you healthier.

 

Source: Good Housekeeping Mag, March 2012 issue