How grapefruit really can help us lose weight: Drinking fruit's juice when eating fatty food can help reduce weight put on by a fifth

A study has found that drinking grapefruit juice ( also known as the Grapefruit Diet or Hollywood Diet) when eating fatty food lowers the amount of weight put on by up to a fifth.

The Grapefruit Diet, also called the Hollywood Diet, dates back to the 1930s. It involves having grapefruit or grapefruit juice with every meal while cutting back on calories.

Grapefruit juice should be taken to cut down weight

Consistent intake of the juice also lowers blood sugar and insulin levels. In fact, grapefruit juice was as good at controlling insulin as the widely used diabetes drug metformin, the journal PLOS ONE reports. Because of the positive effects of grapefruits on humans, The British Dietetic Association said the fruit now needs to be thoroughly tested in humans to see if it could help with weight loss and stem the rise of obesity and diabetes.

Spokesman Mariette Abrahams, a dietician, said until then it is too early for people to try grapefruit diets. ‘Grapefruit should be part of a healthy balanced diet, but it shouldn’t be the focus of the diet,’

For all weight watchers, you have got nothing to loose, give it a trial and remember moderation.