WARNING: If you have any sort of liver disease, suffer with any health issues or you are on any medications, consult your doctor before eating/drinking Grapefruit/ Grapefruit juice. Grapefruit can interfere with medications by rendering medications ineffective, by either making them not work or making their effects more intense. Talk to your doctor. My juicing is not a diet. I don't diet. I met with my practitioner and he said, that based on my metabolic study he did for me, I am not getting the necessary 1200 calories that I need per day by just eating one meal. He also said my absorption rate was in the "Good" range. Getting less than 1200 calories a day will cause the body to go into starvation mode and cause the body to start storing fat. That's what 'THEY SAY', you know, "THEY, THAT DO THE SAYING!" *snicker* So I'm upping my calories with HEALTHY and DENSE NUTRITION. I can up my plant based foods, because they are PLANT BASED and as long a what I eat has color. No beige or white foods. While I am avoiding beige and white foods and especially cooked starch, I will still eat rice. If Africans, Asians and Indians can eat rice and be healthy, so can I! It came to me that I can increase my calories by indulging in something quick, easy and nutritionally dense. Each 8 oz. cup of grapefruit juice contains 96 calories. 96 x 4 = 384. 384 x 2 = 768 per day in nutritionally dense calories. While this takes me over 1200 calories it is not a problem, as it is still plant based, no added sugar and nutritionally dense, it is providing me with a lot of what the body needs: i.e. Potassium, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Protein, Sodium, as well as, polyunsaturated and mono saturated fats. The other benefit to drink this amount of Liquid is that it keeps bowels from being dry and causing constipation, therefor allowing the bowels to move easily. This is not a replacement for water as I still drink my water each day. Grapefruit juice increases the production of collagen, keeping the skin firm and tight and it also raises HDL - the HEALTHY cholesterol! GRAPEFRUIT JUICE IS: Low in Fat and Calories A 1 cup serving of grapefruit juice contains 96 calories. While the juice has more calories than water, the amount is relatively low, for 16 to 32 percent of the typical range of 300 to 600 calories per meal. This beverage contains only trace amounts of fat, with 0.2 g. High in Vitamin C. Grapefruit juice boosts your vitamin C intake, because each serving has 156 percent of the daily recommended intake. Vitamin C benefits your immune system, and it keeps your blood vessels healthy by encouraging the production of collagen. Drinking grapefruit juice helps you get more vitamin C if you are a smoker; smoking increases your risk of a vitamin C deficiency because it decreases the amount available in your body. Good Source of Potassium One cup of grapefruit juice contains 11 percent of the potassium your body requires daily. Potassium, an electrolyte, helps control muscle contractions, which makes it critical for maintaining normal heart and digestive functions. Many Americans consume an excess amount of sodium, which increases your potassium needs, so if there is a lot of sodium in your diet consider drinking more grapefruit juice. Benefits Consuming grapefruit juice might benefit your cholesterol levels. A study published in the February 2011 edition of “Nutrition and Metabolism” assessed 85 obese adults over a 12-week period. Researchers gave the subjects 127 g of grapefruit juice to drink before meals. The levels of HDL, the good type of cholesterol, increased significantly for this group. Considerations Grapefruit juice may interfere with certain medications, so speak to your physician about your diet if you take medicine for allergies, malaria or HIV, as well as antibiotics and calcium channel blockers. A study in the July-September 2010 issue of the journal “Revista Medico-Chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici si Naturalisti din Iasi” notes that the elderly and those with liver disease are among those most vulnerable to grapefruit juice-medication reactions.
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