Image via Wikipedia America is a nation obsessed with diets and exercise. Each year, we spend an estimated 42 billion dollars on supposedly simple solutions for the battle of the bulge. Unfortunately, most of that money has been spent in vain as Americans remain the fattest people on earth. Why…

Image via Wikipedia If you're getting serious about getting ready for the summer bathing suit season eating grapefruit is the best thing you can do. Eating grapefruit can help you lose weight because it's high in fiber, it's low in calorie, and it can kick start your weight loss. People…

Image by ♥ he@rt ♥ via Flickr With over one and half million tons shipped each year, the United States is the world leader in grapefruit production. Nearly half of the grapefruits on earth are grown in just four states–Florida, Texas, California and Arizona. When compared to the world's most…

Image via Wikipedia In recent years, Americans have heard an awful lot about so-called superfoods. A superfood is a neologism that is sometimes used to describe foods that contain unusually high amounts of phytonutrients. These phytonutrients are chemical compounds that are found in fruits and vegetables. Today we are going…

The Texas red grapefruit was named the official state fruit in 1993 by the 73rd legislature. The red grapefruit is grown in the southern part of Texas called the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Texas currently produces three trademarked varieties of grapefruit. The Ruby Sweet category includes the famous Ruby Red…

The United States is the world's third largest producer of citrus fruit, after Brazil and China. Even more impressively, only four states grow commercial crops–Florida, California, Texas, and Arizona. Citrus growers in these states harvest over 10 million tons of fruit each year. Popular citrus crops include the orange, the…

Starting a new diet, even the grapefruit diet, can be tough. The grapefruit diet is designed to be a short term weight loss solution and isn't an ongoing diet so you don't have to change the way you eat totally. But it still can be difficult to make the commitment…

Image by edans via Flickr Even though the Valencia orange was named for the city of Valencia in Spain, where there are lots of orange trees and a lot of citrus fruit grown, it was created in the US. A citrus farmer created the Valencia hybrid in California. The orange…

Once you've gotten to the weight you're comfortable at it can be tough to maintain that. Day to day life is full of commitments like work, family, and kids that can make it almost impossible to find the time to exercise and cook healthy meals. But eating Texas grapefruit is…