How Grapefruit Can Prevent Serious Medical Conditions

Grapefruit, like all citrus fruits, is full of Vitamin C and other vitamins and minerals that can boost your immune system and keep you healthy. However, unlike oranges or other citrus fruits, grapefruit contains enzymes and other components that can help prevent serious diseases. Eating grapefruit regularly can lower your risk of developing diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol and even some types of cancer. Simply eating a grapefruit once a day can lower your risk of some kinds of cancers by as much as sixty percent. Don't you want to reduce your risk of cancer by more than half? Of course you do, so make sure that you make grapefruits part of your daily diet. If you want to eat healthy and prevent disease you should start eating grapefruit right away.

Diabetes is one of the most deadly diseases in the West. Every year millions of people are diagnosed with adult onset or Type 2 diabetes. The blood sugar spikes that come from diabetes can be life threatening, and diabetics need to follow a strict diet in order to stay healthy. One of the reasons why grapefruit is such a good preventative of diabetes is because the natural sucrose in the fruit is easily broken down by the body. Unlike refined sugar, which the body can't break down very well, natural sucrose is broken down almost immediately and used for fuel in the body. That prevents any major blood sugar spikes and it also prevents the unprocessed sugar from being stored in the body as fat simply because the body doesn't know what to do with it. Cutting out all desserts made with refined sugar and switching to cooking with and eating grapefruit can help you fight off diabetes, especially if you're in a pre-diabetic stage right now.

Grapefruit also contains a lot of natural pectin, which has been proven to help prevent heart disease. Heart disease is the number one killer of women, and it also kills hundreds of thousands of men every year. If you're at risk of developing heart disease you should be adding grapefruit to your diet immediately to start letting the enzymes and pectin in grapefruit bring down your cholesterol levels. A healthy diet and exercise are the best ways to prevent heart disease from becoming a serious problem. Get started by just adding one grapefruit per day to your diet and you'll be amazed at how much better you feel.

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