We hear a lot about fruit diets. They are said to be good for
losing weight and good for detoxification of the body. Now it is best to
forget about detoxification of the body. It detoxifies quite nicely by
itself and fruit diets and expensive pills will not help much. The whole
detoxification frenzy is in honour of Saint Expedite, the patron saint
of shop keepers, and has little to do with scientific fact.
So we are left with asking if a fruit diet can help you lose weight. The answer is that it can. A fruit diet is best if it is relatively short term, from a few days to two weeks. In two weeks you can aim at losing about five pounds. How it works is that you buy several types of fruit. These can be melons, apples, sweet oranges, grapefruits, bananas, apricots or whatever else you enjoy. Then for breakfast eat as much of one type as you need to feel satisfied. After that eat when you feel hungry, changing the type of fruit with each meal and eating as much as you want until you have had enough. You may end up having 6-8 meals a day. This is quite usual. For your evening meal you can add some nuts. That is all you need to do apart from drinking plenty of water. You will, of course cut out all other food products and also caffeine and alcohol.
Fruit diets are low calorie. On average your intake is likely to be a maximum of 1500 calories a day. A 200 pound woman needs about 2000 calories to maintain her body weight and a man slightly more. So most people on a fruit diet will lose weight, and as this may happen rather quickly, it is not a good idea to carry on the diet for too long.
Fruit is an essential part of any diet and you should think of the fruit diet as not only a way of losing a few pounds but also a step towards a healthier lifestyle. After some days or a couple of weeks on a fruit diet you can decrease the fruit and introduce grains, lean meat, oily fish and fresh vegetables. Carry on with this and you will be eating food which helps you maintain the weight you have reached and, if you exercise as well, you can achieve the weight you are aiming at.
Fruit is good for you, there is no doubt about it. Although claims that eating more fruit and vegetables can protect you against cancer are a little exaggerated. Recent research shows that only 2.5 percent of cancers can be averted by eating fruit and vegetables. In fact fruit, which contains fewer nutrients, appears to be less successful than vegetables. But averting any cancers is important, so we should not be disappointed by the low figures.
As an aid to weight loss a short term fruit diet is well worth the effort. Try it for its own sake and as a way to a more healthy lifestyle. But do not get over excited about detoxification.
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So we are left with asking if a fruit diet can help you lose weight. The answer is that it can. A fruit diet is best if it is relatively short term, from a few days to two weeks. In two weeks you can aim at losing about five pounds. How it works is that you buy several types of fruit. These can be melons, apples, sweet oranges, grapefruits, bananas, apricots or whatever else you enjoy. Then for breakfast eat as much of one type as you need to feel satisfied. After that eat when you feel hungry, changing the type of fruit with each meal and eating as much as you want until you have had enough. You may end up having 6-8 meals a day. This is quite usual. For your evening meal you can add some nuts. That is all you need to do apart from drinking plenty of water. You will, of course cut out all other food products and also caffeine and alcohol.
Fruit diets are low calorie. On average your intake is likely to be a maximum of 1500 calories a day. A 200 pound woman needs about 2000 calories to maintain her body weight and a man slightly more. So most people on a fruit diet will lose weight, and as this may happen rather quickly, it is not a good idea to carry on the diet for too long.
Fruit is an essential part of any diet and you should think of the fruit diet as not only a way of losing a few pounds but also a step towards a healthier lifestyle. After some days or a couple of weeks on a fruit diet you can decrease the fruit and introduce grains, lean meat, oily fish and fresh vegetables. Carry on with this and you will be eating food which helps you maintain the weight you have reached and, if you exercise as well, you can achieve the weight you are aiming at.
Fruit is good for you, there is no doubt about it. Although claims that eating more fruit and vegetables can protect you against cancer are a little exaggerated. Recent research shows that only 2.5 percent of cancers can be averted by eating fruit and vegetables. In fact fruit, which contains fewer nutrients, appears to be less successful than vegetables. But averting any cancers is important, so we should not be disappointed by the low figures.
As an aid to weight loss a short term fruit diet is well worth the effort. Try it for its own sake and as a way to a more healthy lifestyle. But do not get over excited about detoxification.