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Doea eating grapefruit help you loose weight?

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No: Grape fruit alone can not cause weight unlessit is consumed as a part of extremly low calorie diet. Which is not considered a healthy way of weight loss by most bariatricians.

Dr Jones agreed

Answered 3/6/2014

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