Three benefits of eating grapefruit
Grapefruit has a high content of fiber, anti-oxidation effect is good and the glycemic index and low, is a healthy fruit can be enjoyed every day. (Half a grapefruit contains only 60 calories. Fiber capacity was a full 6 grams of fiber than an apple contain more than the amount).
While the previous wave of grapefruit diet is too extreme, nutritional imbalance, but to add a balanced diet and they will help you maintain a slender figure.
Ken Fuji Oka Dr., San Diego, Scripps Hospital, Director, Center for Nutrition and Metabolism, presided over the grapefruit in the diet during the study on the role. They confirmed that grapefruit has more features.
Course of the study, Dr. Ken Fuji Oka and his colleagues will be 100 obese men and women were divided into four experimental groups. The first group to eat grapefruit extract, the second group drank grapefruit juice every meal, the third group ate half a grapefruit for each meal, the fourth group was given placebo. They also let the subjects walk three times per week, every 30 minutes.
12 weeks later, the subjects were taking a placebo lost on average less than half a pound weight, eating the extract, the average lost 24 pounds, drink juice, the average lost 3.3 pounds, eating fresh grapefruit, the average lost of 3.5 pounds. Eating grapefruit of the subjects will be divided into two grapefruit one, and then divided into four, and then peeled off the skin. In this way, they also ate part of the lining on the inside of the sponge layer of peel.
At present, we still do not know how to promote weight loss grapefruit, but it seems to alleviate insulin resistance (associated with human fat and appear) helpful.
Bring the health benefits of grapefruit fascinating. According to the American Chemical Society in citrus fruits discuss the potential benefits of the annual meeting of the study, grapefruit benefits include the following:
◆ have anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer characteristics:
◆ lower insulin levels and promote weight loss:
◆ ease the aging concurrent diseases: arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, asthma, Parkinson’s disease,耱urine disease, cataracts and Crohn’s disease.
Red grapefruit, and pink grapefruit are all part of a special cable that contains red tomato fruit. Lycopene is an open-chain tangled unsaturated carotenoids, it is precisely because it, tomatoes, red-orange, guava, rose fruit and watermelon have a bright red.
Studies have shown that tomato red cable can prevent heart disease, some cancers and lead to the number one cause of blindness – macular degeneration. However, it should be noted: experience certificate, grapefruit would hinder the efficacy of some drugs commonly used to play.
It is clear that flavonoids in grapefruit juice in the intestines of a charge of antihistamines, history and Ta Ting medicine (used to reduce cholesterol levels) decomposition and absorption of the special enzyme inhibition.
If you are taking these drugs, please decide whether to join the grapefruit diet, ask a doctor before.