Saturday, June 23, 2012

EAT UP: Grapefruits

Grapefruits are, besides a gorgeous hue of pink, extremely beneficial to your health. Want to lose weight? Do it by eating these. Need to lower your cholesterol? Eat up!

These succulent, sweet but sometimes bitter fruit, serves many beneficial dietary purposes. For one, you can eat your way to losing weight. Sounds too good to be true? It's not! Grapefruits have a massive amount of enzymes that BURN the fat away and increases your body's metabolism. Try eating a grapefruit a day or even a glass of it's juice, and see the pounds shed.

The antioxidants in a grapefruit have also been found to lower high cholesterol, however, if you are on prescription drugs, this may have a negative effect on the drugs, so check with your doc first before treating yourself with both.


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