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If you want to fight aging and look younger all you need to do is make Ruby Red grapefruit a daily part of your diet. Eating grapefruit everyday will make your immune system stronger, help your muscles and cells repair themselves, and fight free radicals which can cause damage and illness. Delicious Ruby Red grapefruit, like oranges and other citrus fruits, has Vitamin C and other important minerals that your body needs to be healthy but grapefruit also has the ability to knock out free radicals, and medical experts agree free radicals are what causes your skin to look older.…

Starting the New Year off right for most people means starting a new diet so they can get fit and feel healthy. But before you start a new diet you need to heal your body from the ravages of your old diet, and grapefruit can help you do that. When you first start to detox from a diet high in sugar and fat and processed foods you will crave a lot of sweets and starchy foods because that is what you're used to. Eating grapefruit or other citrus fruits like super sweet Honeybell tangerines is a good way to give…

There are plenty of snacks on the grocery aisles that are packaged for convenience. Unfortunately, many if not most of these snacks are laden with preservatives, sugar, high fructose corn syrup and fat. And lets face it, the ones that are supposed to be healthy are usually a little lacking in the taste and texture department. But if you truly need a snack on the go, they are convenient. But fruits are great and healthy and there are ways to eat grapefruit and other fruits on the go. All it takes to figure out a way to eat grapefruit on…

If you're like most people these days you barely have time to sleep let alone spend hours shopping for healthy food. But, you want to stay healthy and feed your family healthy food. Fruit delivery is the perfect solution to the problem of keeping delicious and nutritious food in the house when you don't have a lot of time to shop. You can have tasty, fresh, and nutritious citrus fruit delivered right to your door so you will never run out. You also won't need to waste time driving to multiple stores or markets to try and find the fresh…

High fiber foods have been shown to improve the health of the digestive tract, reduce the risk of heart disease, and even to fight certain types of cancer. The only problem is that they can be somewhat bland and difficult to incorporate into the average diet. Foods like bran, oats, black beans, and lentils are not exactly selling out at supermarkets. But there is one popular food group that contains far more fiber than most people think. We are talking of course about fruit. In this article we will focus on one of the highest fiber fruits you can find,…

Image by Salim Virji via Flickr The grapefruit came to Texas in the early 19th century. It was brought from Florida by Spanish missionaries who stopped in South Texas near the Rio Grande Valley. What they did not and could not know is that this region is one of the best in the world for cultivating grapefruits. The reason for this is simple: South Texas has a subtropical climate and the grapefruit is a subtropical fruit. Still, it wasn't until 1893 that the first grapefruit crop was planted in Texas. It soon became a tasty and popular treat for the…

Image by Polifemus via Flickr The grapefruit was first planted in Jamaica back in the 1700s and did not find its way to the United States until the mid 1800s. Since then the U.S. has become the world's largest producer of grapefruit with China and South Africa in distant second and third place. Nearly one in five Americans enjoy this tart citrus juice every morning with their coffee and newspaper over breakfast. It's squeezed, sliced, topped with sugar, served for breakfast or a diet lunch. It's chock full of great vitamins and antioxidants that help prevent the formation of cancer…

Have you been thinking about using grapefruit or grapefruit juice to cook with? People who have health conditions like diabetes, or who choose to follow strict dietary guidelines that prevent them from eating foods like animal products, refined flour or processed sugar often look for ways to substitute ingredients that they can have for the ingredients in their favorite recipes that they can't have. Sometimes the items that are suggested as substitutes don't really taste the same in the dish, such as using applesauce as a binding agent instead of eggs. But using grapefruit juice, orange juice, or other citrus…