Since about the eighties people have been using the grapefruit diet, and although it does work it isn’t for everybody. Grapefruit forms a core part of the Grapefruit Diet. It is a wonderful fruit that contain simple carbohydrate with high fiber. The fruit has no fat, low in calories and sodium, and is packed with vitamin C. For those who would like to reduce their weight, it is believed that grapefruit can reduces your appetite and therefore promoting weight loss. Latest research, carried out by a group of scientists at the Nutrition and Medical Research Centre in San Diego, America, has found that by simply adding grapefruit and grapefruit juice to your diet can really aid weight loss.