For barmy weight loss tips, I have to give full marks to the Grapefruit Diet. There is no doubt you will lose weight on this diet, but it is not for the reason given that grapefruits are an important fruit in this diet because it acts as a catalyst that starts the burning process. In a word balderdash! What I do like about the Grapefruit Diet is the magic works At all meals, you must eat until you are absolutely full. That sounds like absolute total sense! What is it about weird and wonderful foods that people home in on and confer them with merits far beyond what nature intended? I daresay it is a little of correct information that has been misinterpreted and then, like Chinese whispers [that game where the sentence whispered gets changed as it is repeated], the original understanding got lost amongst the icing on chocolate cup cakes!

So how do you go about losing weight and what truth is there in the humble grapefruit being a catalyst to burn fat? To answer that you need to understand how your food gets to be digested, starting at the beginning at your mouth, where you chew your food and swallow it. Forgive me if you know all this, but it doesnt hurt to recap, so I am going back to basics here. There are actually four stages of digestion and, to follow any weight loss program, you do need to know this. The first stage of digestion is mechanical. It is what happens in your mouth. This is important knowledge for anybody contemplating fat loss remedies. You chew your food to make it into smaller pieces that are ideal to swallow. So, as you swallow your food, it gets mixed with saliva to help the food slide down. An important enzyme in saliva is called salivary carbohydrase. This enzyme starts breaking down the large starch chemicals in your food into simpler glucose particles.

There are different kinds of enzymes: carbohydrases which help digest carbohydrates, or starches, in our food; proteases which help to digest proteins; and lipases which help to digest fats [lipids] in our foods. Carbohydrase used to be called amylase and Protease is the name now given to enzymes that used to be called pepsins and trypsins. You will notice that none of these mentions grapefruit as containing a catalyst? An enzyme is just a biological catalyst. As grapefruit contains fructose, which is a fruit sugar, the enzyme it will need to digest its fruit is a carbohydrase. I hope this helps you understand a bit more about how the digestion process begins. With a basic understanding like this to begin with, it will be easier to explain how to lose weight and how to lose weight fast.