Grapefruit a “Great Fruit???

In today’s New York Times Nicholas Bakalar reports that research in an upcoming edition of The Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry show ruby red grapefruits are useful in controlling cholesterol:

Researchers tested 57 patients ages 39 to 72 who had undergone coronary bypass surgery and had found that Zocor, or simvastatin, was ineffective. They divided them randomly into three groups.

Each group consumed the same diet, except that one ate one red grapefruit daily, the second ate one white grapefruit, and the third ate no grapefruit at all. None took lipid-lowering drugs during the test.

After one month, there were no differences in the heart rate, blood pressure or weight of the three groups. Antioxidant activity in both white and red groups was increased compared with the group that ate no grapefruit.

But the group that ate red grapefruit every day also had significantly decreased blood levels of triglycerides.

I spent the day yesterday with best selling author Joel Fuhrman M.D. Author of the new book, Disease Proof Your Child. What a hit this book is.

Not only does it make the point that what you eat early in life is critical to your long term health and success, it reinforces the point that what you eat during any period of your life is vital to your health and success.

Get that “you are what you eat” and this old adage has not changed. Food technology is not going to change a thing.

Nutrition is to your body what contruction is to a building. If you use poor quality materials you are going to have problems, weakness, imbalances, waste problems, etc… it’s relatively the same in the human system.

You have to understand the quality of your food.

If you want to look and feel better, and perform better, you have to eat better and do it in ways that you find great tasting, convenient and enjoyable in your life.

The feeling, fitness and function of your body is wholly dependent on the food you eat.

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