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If being overweight is the new normal, why do so many of us go on diets? That most of us weight too much, or at least more than we did in the past, is indisputable. According to the Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC), two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese–which is double the rate in 1980. The average U.S. citizen is now 24 pounds heavier than most medical professionals say he/she should be. But why should we be slimmer? As incredible as it may sound, obesity is now the leading cause of preventable death in America, ahead of smoking!…

There are many different grapefruit benefits for the heart, and all of them center around cholesterol and heart disease. Most people do not realize that grapefruit benefits include more than just Vitamin C and potassium, but they do. Though hydration, weight loss, antioxidants, increased energy and lower risk of cancer are some of the many other grapefruit benefits, this article is only going to focus on the grapefruit benefits that center around the heart. The heart beats blood through your entire body. This is necessary to oxygenate the body and keep it healthy. The blood passes through the heart on…

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 are Americans so fat? There are a number of reasonable explanations from the fast food industry to increasingly sedentary working conditions. But in this article we want to focus on solutions rather than simple finger pointing. We also want to discuss healthy foods for a change. No, those low-calorie, artificially…

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 have been using the Grapefruit Diet to lose weight for decades because it works, and it's easy to do. If you can eat grapefruit everyday for several weeks you can shed ten pounds or more, in a healthy way that won't make you ill. You don't need pills or shakes…

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 popular fruit, the orange, America has only about fifteen percent of the world market. Why is the grapefruit so popular in America? Well, it wasn't always that way. In fact, when the grapefruit first arrived on U.S. soil, most people wanted nothing to do with it. The year was 1823…

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 to discuss one of the American's oldest and most popular superfruits, the grapefruit. First cultivated in America in 1823, it took the grapefruit more than a century to catch on. It was not until 1929 when a new variety of grapefruit was discovered in South Texas that people actually wanted…

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 grapefruit including other red varieties called Henderson and Ray. The Ruby Sweet has a smooth, yellow skin that has reddish blush blotches on the skin. He inside flesh is three to five times redder than the Ruby Red. The Rio Star combines the Rio Red and the Star Ruby grapefruit.…

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 grapefruit, the lemon, the lime and the tangerine. But America is the world leader in only one of these crops, the grapefruit. The U.S. produces over 1.5 million tons of grapefruit each year, which is more than one-third of the world supply. Not bad for a fruit that almost didn't…

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 to start a diet to lose weight and look and feel better. The grapefruit diet has been proven over and over to help people lose up to ten pounds in two weeks because of the natural fat burning enzymes in grapefruit so if you stay on the diet for two…