Talk:Grapefruit diet

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Years ago my father lost over 40 pounds while drinking grapefruie juice with his evening meal only. He started with 4 ounces a day and increased it to 16 ounces. This eventually became his evening meal. As he ate heartily for breakfast and lunch, he was still well nourished.

I drink grapefruit juice with the same results. One benefit I find is that I feel it curbs my appetite so that I don't eat other foods which might add to my weight.


 * (moved by edahm - not signed in) congratulations on your weight loss. If what you are trying to do is imply that a grapefruit diet works in any way, Wikipedia is going to need the results of a study which proves that the weight loss was attributible to anything other than a reduced calorie intake.

Dr Fujioka
The section on Dr. Fujioka was full of non expert speculation on why his study got results, which has no place here. June 29th 2008

The section on Dr Fujioka should either cite where the study was published, or should be removed. Jeremymiles 05:27, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I've cited an article discussing the study, and reworded the entire paragraph, as it was plagiarized from the cited reference. 69.177.232.182 (talk) 21:39, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Once again, I've removed the plagiarized portion about the 2004 study and replaced it with a cited reworded version. I forgot to delete the original section last time, and somebody deleted my (cited) version instead. Please do not revert this change, this time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.252.197.77 (talk) 06:44, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Grapefruit + Cancer
This diet should not be tried because regular eating of grapefruit increases risk of breast cancer in women - Is this true???? YokoIrl 12:00, 09 August 2007 (GMT)

Mayo diet
I heard it was called the Mayo Diet because it forbids eating mayonnaise. However, I seem to be coming across a lot of sources that may not be reliable. Has anyone found a reliable source for this, or is it just hearsay? --72.54.44.153 (talk) 16:53, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

It was called the Mayo Diet because some people wanted to link it to the Mayo Clinic, presumably a marketing ploy. It has nothing to do with the Mayo Clinic, and referring to it as the Mayo diet is misleading. 59.167.120.24 (talk) 00:37, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

1930s?
I checked out the original NYT article and its connection with what we think of as the grapefruit diet is tenuous. In fact, all it says is that Belgian women like grapefruits (and other imported fruits) because they are fashionable, and implies that they help with weight loss. This to my mind isn't a strong enough argument for saying that THE grapefruit diet originated in the 30s.

I also don't see how it's possible for it to have been Xeroxlore if the diet is that old.216.164.44.4 (talk) 02:37, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * oops, wasn't logged in. Rkaufman13 (talk) 02:54, 18 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Interesting. I'll just remove the NYT reference then. As for the Xerox lore, a couple different places around the net did use that term, but it might have been a case of Wikipedia influencing the web. A side note is that the "Hollywood Diet" (proper noun) and "Celebrity Diet" are more than likely (more like almost certainly) direct descendants of the grapefruit diet. But nothing I found mentioned it. If someone founds a reliable source that makes the connection, feel free to add it. Recognizance (talk) 02:50, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Still doesn't address the "Xeroxlore" tidbit exactly (how could it have originated in the 1930's as Xeroxlore when there were no xerox machines?) but I think that must have just been a typo, so, fixed it.Rkaufman13 (talk) 18:25, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm not sure. It might be best just to remove the Xerox mention altogether as a vestige of the unsourced version that was previously here. Changing 1930s to 1970s without a sourced basis violates WP:OR. Recognizance (talk) 18:46, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

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