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The title of this article may seem too good to be true for many. Avoiding high medical costs with something like grapefruit pectin? How can that possibly be so? With doctor and prescription bills rising by the second, it is important to cut down on these costs. And with how inexpensive grapefruit is, using grapefruit pectin to reduce these costs is easy, cheap and may even be fun if you are a grapefruit lover. There are so many health benefits to grapefruit pectin that using it daily can help avoid lots of health conditions that can lead to health problems.…

Image via Wikipedia There are many different ingredients you can include in your salads, not the least of which includes red grapefruit. It doesn't have to be a fruit salad to include some slices of different citrus fruits; the salad is your creation, so you can include anything that appeals to you. Quite often you will find salads that are comprised of a combination of fruits and vegetables including red grapefruit. Since grapefruit itself is a combination of sour and bitter, it is more appropriate for a garden salad than sweeter varieties such as oranges, bananas, apples and the like.…

Usually experts tell you to eat less when you want to lose weight, but eating more Texas grapefruit can help you lose weight. If you have an event coming up or if you want to slim down before the holidays the Grapefruit Diet and Texas grapefruit can help. The Grapefruit Diet has been around since the 1940s and people continue to use it because it really works. You can lose up to twelve pounds in two weeks without going hungry. What you need to do is eat a half of a grapefruit before each meal. That's it. Just eat grapefruit…

Back in the 70's, the grapefruit diet was all the rage. This program had actually been around much longer going back to the 1930's when it was called the Hollywood Diet. The concept is simple: With every meal you need to add a half of grapefruit or a glass of grapefruit juice. The key seems to be that the grapefruit helps curb your appetite which in turn helps you eat less. Technically, you could achieve the same results without the grapefruit but then you would be missing out on a lot of the benefits from the grapefruit. There have been…

A nutritionist is someone who is licensed to help people improve their daily diets through food, liquids, vitamins and any other means. Though some people go to a nutritionist before they have health problems as a way to avoid them later, many already have health problems. A nutritionist can help people with such things as high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and much more. They try to get all the vitamins and minerals into your diet through food, and may ask their clients to try something called grapefruit pectin on a daily basis. You may be asking what grapefruit pectin…

Do a search of grapefruit fiber on the Internet and you will likely find a whole lot of articles about how it helps with cholesterol and blood sugar. You may even find grapefruit diets, fiber content charts and even some information about the antibacterial properties. You will rarely find any information about grapefruit fiber being an antioxidant, but in many ways it is. Arguably the best benefit of grapefruit fiber when it comes to your health is that it helps reduce cholesterol. More specifically, it helps reduce bad cholesterol. The bad cholesterol (also called LDL cholesterol) is bad because it…

Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer for American men. One in six will be diagnosed with the disease during his lifetime. And one in thirty-five will die from it, making it the second deadliest type of cancer after lung cancer. The only silver lining, if one can call it that, is that prostate cancer takes a long time to grow. That is why only fifteen percent of its victims succumb to the disease. There is also evidence that certain foods can lower a man's risk of prostate cancer. In this article we will discuss a simple dietary…