Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
My friend believes that eating only grapes all day makes her lose weight.
Oy.
It probably does..... at about 60-65 calories a cup, you'd be hard pressed to eat enough of them to meet the calorie needs of a typical adult... (if you require 2,000 per day that would be 33 cups...) That doesn't necessarily mean it's a good or healthy way to lose weight. A friend of mine was telling me about some supplement (not as a believer)- take it and eat 700 calories a day and you'll lose weight!! Well duh.... eat only 700 calories a day and anyone would lose weight....

I think that what ever diet you choose to follow, if you find that there are skeptics, I'd say that LPH and Owlie have it pegged, it's because there will always be a very vocal zealot(s) who uses scare tactics and/or pseudoscience to try to convert *everyone* with the idea that theirs is the one and only way to eat healthily/morally etc.