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Hollywood Grapefruit Diet Fad may have Science on its Side

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday October 12 2014, @06:57PM   
from the weight-loss-90068 dept.

frojack writes:

(e) Science News is reporting that feeding Grapefruit Juice to mice with high fat diets resulted in 18 percent less weight gain than the same diet with only water.

The study was conducted at UC Berkeley. This work was funded by the California Grapefruit Growers Cooperative, but the UC Berkeley researchers emphasized that the funders had no control or influence over the study design or research findings.

At the end of the study period, the mice that ate the high-fat diet and drank diluted grapefruit juice not only gained less weight than their control counterparts, they also had a 13 to 17 percent decrease in blood glucose levels and a threefold decrease in insulin levels, which reveals greater sensitivity to insulin. (In Type 2 diabetes, the pancreas makes extra insulin to compensate for increased resistance to the hormone.)

One group of mice was also fed metformin, a glucose-lowering first-line drug of choice for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. But the grapefruit juice lowered blood glucose to the same degree as metformin. That means a natural fruit drink lowered glucose levels as effectively as a prescription drug.

The weight gain reduction of the grapefruit juice was less pronounced with diets lower in fat, but the insulin levels still decreased two fold.

• My first thought My first thought (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @08:27PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @08:27PM (#105247)

  Was what has this got to do with systemd?

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• Re:My first thought (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @08:49PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12 2014, @08:49PM (#105259)

  Like the Grapefruit Diet is a Hollywood fad.

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