What Is the Grapefruit Diet and Does It Work for Weight Loss?

Like clothing and hairstyle trends, fad diets come and go, only to return in slightly new variations years later. Perhaps one of the best-known diets that somehow keeps returning to the mainstream is the grapefruit diet.

Maybe you watched your mom or your grandmother religiously eat a grapefruit with one of those tiny spoons before every meal in an effort to lose weight. Or maybe you had a friend who would drink a glass of grapefruit juice each morning.

Despite the fact that science hasn’t proven the grapefruit diet to be effective, people continue to rely on this slightly sour citrus as a weight loss tactic.

What Is the Grapefruit Diet?

The grapefruit diet has been around in some form or another since the 1930s and endorses…