This Grapefruit Page is from the Cretan Bowl Diet website that offers weight loss tips and slimming diet tips to help you lose weight easily and without hunger pangs.

Grapefruit, like other citrus fruits are grown here on Crete in the winter months. They add sunshine and colour to any breakfast bowl.

Grapefruit are an excellent source of Vitamin A and Vitamin C.

Vitamin A assists with cell reproduction. It also stimulates immunity and is needed for formation of some hormones. Vitamin A helps vision and supports bone growth, tooth development, and helps maintain healthy skin, hair, and mucous membranes.

Deficiency of Vitamin A can cause night blindness, dry skin, poor bone growth, and weak tooth enamel.

Vitamin C is an important vitamin in that it plays a significant role as an antioxidant, thereby protecting body tissue from the damage of oxidation. Antioxidants act to protect your cells against the effects of free radicals, which are potentially damaging by-products of the body’s metabolism. Free radicals can cause cell damage that may contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid) is essential for the metabolism of food as well as in the formation of hormones.

Vitamin B9 has forms named Folate and Folic Acid. Folate occurs naturally in fresh foods, whereas Folic Acid is the synthetic form found in supplements. The body needs Folate to produce red blood cells, as well as components of the nervous system. It helps maintaining normal brain function, and is a critical part of spinal fluid. Folic Acid is vital for proper cell growth and development of the embryo, so it is important for women to have enough Folate/Folic Acid in their bodies both before and during pregnancy.

Grapefruit also contains Potassium.

Potassium is an essential mineral for the growth and maintenance of the body. It is needed to maintain a normal water balance between the cells and body fluids.

Potassium also plays an essential role in proper heart function.

Deficiency may cause muscular cramps, twitching and weakness, irregular heartbeat, insomnia, kidney and lung failure.



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