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Grapefruit Diet For Weight Loss This New Year

For this New Year 2011, everyone is going on a diet spree with the latest health foods and organic food that has come into the market. Most people add weight loss as the first point on their New Year Resolution list in order to follow it truthfully throughout the year.

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It is hard to believe that most of them do follow this weight loss tips and diet to get rid of that flab. So, to help your dreams come true by having the perfect zero figure, here are a few weight loss tips with the help of grapefruit. It is said that grapefruit is essential in a weight loss diet as it helps you to loose loads of that unwanted calories along with making you feel healthy. The Grapefruit is rich in proteins and minerals which belongs to that of the citrus family. It looks like an orange but grows in clusters like that of grapes, therefore it gets the name of Grapefruit.

The grapefruit diet has a lot of health aspects, it is useful for those who suffer from acidity as the grapefruit produces an alkaline reaction after digestion. The grapefruit diet is essential for pregnant women too as it helps them with reducing of water retention in the body and also brings down the swelling in their feet which usually occurs in the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy.
Another great aspect of grapefruit is that it helps get rid of sore throat, so here is one home remedy which can be used to ward off a painful throat. Following the grapefruit diet,it will help in preventing cancer which is on a high rise, it reduces insomnia and by this it also helps to improve the immune system.

The grapefruit diet is as follows

1.Breakfast – Scramble or boil two eggs with bacon and wheat bread along with half a cup of grapefruit.

2.Lunch – A good healthy vegetable salad, a small non vegetarian side dish, along with another half cup of grapefruit.

3.Dinner – Good amount of vegetables in a salad, fish or chicken and half cup of grapefruit juice.

This grapefruit has been here for a long time since the 1930's and recently was used by actress Sophia Loren who introduced this Grapefruit diet to the younger generation for weight loss has worked wonders.