La historia de la dieta del pomelo: Cuatro misterios resueltos

• Inmaculada Zarzo ^[1] ; José M. Soriano ^[1]
  1. [1] Food & Health Lab, Institute of Materials Science, University of Valencia, Paterna, Valencia, Spain/ oint Research Unit on Endocrinology, Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics, University of Valencia-Health Research Institute La Fe, Spain.
• Localización: Nutrición clínica y dietética hospitalaria, ISSN 0211-6057, Vol. 42, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 87-95
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • The history of grapefruit diet: Four solved mysteries
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• Resumen
  • español

    Introducción: Hace varias décadas, la dieta del pomelo, o dieta de los 18 días, apareció como un hipotético tratamiento para ayudar en la pérdida de peso, siendo este fruto cítrico la clave en el programa de planificación de la dieta.

    Objetivos: Esta revisión valora la nutrición y la historia para descubrir cuándo apareció la dieta, quién tuvo esta idea, qué valor energético y nutricional y cómo actuar en la hipotética reducción del peso corporal.

    Métodos: se llevó a cabo una revisión en PubMed, Google Scholar y Web of Knowledge y una búsqueda exhaustiva de la literatura "gris".

    Resultados: La información revisada podría indicar que esta dieta fue promovida por la industria alimentaria y cinematográfica y extendida intencionalmente o no por Ethel Barrymore desde principios de la década de 1920, siendo un tratamiento bajo en calorías donde probablemente la toronja no tiene nada que ver con esa pérdida de peso. Además, los detalles de la planificación del menú no eran del todo uniformes y variados con la literatura consultada porque no hay ningún libro o folleto sobre la dieta original.

    Conclusiones: Nuestra revisión resolvió el misterio de la dieta del pomelo desde un punto de vista histórico-nutricional.

  • English

    Introduction: Several decades ago, grapefruit diet, or 18-day diet, appeared as a hypothetic treatment to help in theweight loss being this citric fruit the key in the diet-planningprogram.Objectives: This review assessed the nutrition and thehistory to discover when the diet appeared, who had thisidea, what energetic and nutritional value and how to act inthe hypothetic reduction of body weight.Methods: A review was carried out in the PubMed, GoogleScholar, and Web of Knowledge and a comprehensive searchof the ‘grey’ literature. Results: The reviewed information could indicate that thisdiet was promoted by the food and cinema industry and ex-tended intentionally or unintentionally by Ethel Barrymorefrom the beginning of 1920s, being a low-calorie treatmentwhere probably grapefruit has nothing to do with that weightloss. Furthermore, details of menu-planning were not entirelyuniform and varied with the consulted literature becausethere is no book or pamphlet about the original diet.Conclusions: Our review solved the mystery about grape-fruit diet with a historical-nutritional viewpoint.

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