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All About YOU: Smell This, Lose Weight?
This Week's Tips
You've heard about the grapefruit diet. But can just the smell of grapefruit help melt the pounds from your body?
Seems it has some potential. Preliminary animal studies show that the scent of grapefruit oil may help reduce appetite. Eating a couple of grapefruit won't hurt your waistline, either.
Grapefruit Is a Great Fruit
That wacky grapefruit diet aside, studies have linked regularly eating grapefruit with weight loss. But now the mere smell of the stuff is good enough? Only more research will tell us for sure. Researchers speculate that the effect the oil's smell has on liver enzymes might help nix cravings and spur weight loss.
Sound too good to be true? Maybe. For a surefire way to lose weight, here's the four-step plan from RealAge doctors Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen.
- Plan your meals using this menu planner.
- Find a diet buddy. Here's where to look.
- Walk every day. Here's why.
- Track your progress. Use this tool to watch your waist shrink.
Now, grapefruit does have some wonderful qualities. Find out what they are in RealAge's Food Bites column.
RealAge Benefit:
Maintaining your weight and body mass index at a desirable level can make your RealAge as much as 6 years younger.
Try out this tip: Want to give this diet the sniff test? Buy a vial of grapefruit pure essential oil.
YOU: On a Diet. Roizen, M. F., Oz, M. C., New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
