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Is grapefruit really the answer to dropping weight?

by Lei T. meizitangzisu
Diets according to grapefruit or grapefruit juice, dismissed by some as a dietary fads, could warrant another look, say researchers who saw mice shedding pounds on the regimen of the citrus.
After two groups of mice were placed on a high-fat diet, one group drinking no-pulp grapefruit juice put on 18 percent less weight compared with a control group of mice drinking just water, research led by li ji shou diet pills University of California, Berkeley, researchers found.
The mice on grapefruit juice also ought to insulin, glucose and triacylglycerol levels compared to ones h2o, they reported in the journal PLOS One.
Previous studies had suggested advantages to be had from a grapefruit diet but such studies were sometimes small, with poor scientific controls, and were often contradictory to each other, say Berkeley researchers Joseph Napoli and Andreas Stahl.
Even though the California Grapefruit Growers Cooperative funded the research, Stahl and Napoli emphasized the group had no influence or control over the style of the research or its findings.
Stahl and Napoli both admitted they embarked on the research with considerable skepticism.
"I was surprised by the findings," says Stahl, a professor of nutritional sciences and toxicology. "We even re-checked the calibration in our glucose sensors, and we got the same results again and again."
The grapefruit juice proved in a position to lower blood sugar to the same degree as metformin, a medication that is often prescribed to individuals struggling with type 2 diabetes, they said.
"That means an all natural fruit drink lowered blood sugar levels as effectively as a prescription medication," Napoli says.
The load loss aftereffect of the grapefruit was most evidence in mice on a high-fat diet, the researchers found; mice on a low-fat diet given grapefruit juice did see a two-fold reduction in amounts of insulin but displayed no significant weight loss.
The precise ingredient or ingredients in grapefruit juice responsible for weight reduction isn't clear, the researchers said, and it deserves more research.
"There are lots of active compounds in grapefruit juice, and that we don't always understand how those compounds work," says Stahl.
Still, the researchers say, with obesity magic slim capsule and insulin resistance such pervasive health issues in society, the findings suggest potential rewards from more study.
"We see all sorts of scams about nutrition," Napoli says. "But these results, based on controlled experiments, warrant further study from the potential health-promoting properties of grapefruit juice."


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