I checked my back issues of the St. Pete Times and went to their web site but I
could not find the story.

I reread what I found at the WFTS-TV web site. There is a link to the
grapefruit diet pill site where the pills are for sale and there are different
segments labeled things like Foods to Avoid and then one listing approved
foods. This appears to be a "selective" carb die. What I would really like to
know is - did the people who lost weight, follow this diet? What diet were
they on before they started? If they cut back on "bad" carbs and limited their
intake to the vegetables listed and to whole wheat baked goods, they would
still lose weight, even without the grapefruit.

I am not advocating this plan. But there are many times when I would love to
have hot garlic bread with my meals and would gladly pay for a pill if it meant
my body wouldn't absorb the carbs in the bread.

Dorothy