Grapefruit

The Citrus Fruit Every Diabetic Should Eat

Most doctors tell diabetics to avoid citrus fruit because it causes blood sugar problems. But there’s one citrus fruit I think all diabetics should include in their diet. Not only does it reduce your blood sugar, it can also help you lose weight.

A recent study proves this. Researchers at the prestigious Scripps Institute in Lajolla, CA divided 91 obese volunteers into several groups. Each group ingested either one-half raw grapefruit, eight ounces grapefruit juice, grapefruit capsules, or a placebo. They took the capsules and the placebo with apple juice – a non-citrus fruit juice.

Each group took their treatment three times daily before each meal. After 123 weeks, all of the volunteers in the grapefruit groups experienced weight loss. The most weight loss was in fresh grapefruit use, followed by grapefruit juice, and then capsules. The placebo group had insignificant weight loss.
But most importantly, subjects in the fresh grapefruit group had lower glucose and insulin levels. Insulin resistance, a serious marker for future disease, also improved.

The researchers didn’t give an explanation for why the grapefruit works, other than it’s ability to help lower blood sugar and insulin levels. But I suspect there’s a lot more to it than that.

We know that vinegar helps with glucose intolerance and metabolic syndrome. Well, grapefruit is similar to vinegar in that both contain organic acids. These acids act as tiny fatty acids that are very easy for your body to burn. When they enter your stomach, they slow your body’s digestion of sugars and other carbs. The result is lower blood sugar.

This is great news because I like grapefruit a lot more than vinegar. I’m sure you do too. Eating grapefruit to lose weight was considered an old wive’s tale. But now we see that it’s really an effective folk remedy. This study confirms two things I have repeatedly stressed: (1) Fresh living foods are best, and (2) natural remedies, especially food, should be your first choice in healing. Fresh grapefruit and grapefruit juice are a living food, bursting with vitamin C, bioflavonoids and other nutrients. I recommend you eat or drink it whenever you can.

Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert Jay Rowen, MD

Ref: Fujioka K, F. Greenway, et al. “The effects of grapefruit on weight and insulin resistance: relationship to the metabolic syndrome,” J Med Food, 2006; 9(1): 49-54.

Cut Anger Problems by 40%--without Drugs

In our last health alert, you saw how psychiatry and the drug companies are out to solve our nation’s anger problems. Their solution, of course, is prescription drugs – usually tranquilizers.

While they like to blame TV and bad parenting for the rise in anger mismanagement, there’s something else to blame. And fixing this one simple problem can reduce anger problems by 40% or more.

Some innovative researchers went into violent juvenile detention centers and cleaned out violence. How? By simply improving the teens’ diets. Yes, just replacing soft drinks with juice, and swapping refined sugar with fruit caused an immediate 40% reduction in violence.

Think that’s just coincidence? Think again. God designed your body to survive. The survival instinct is called the “fight or flight’ response, and is mediated by adrenaline. Pump adrenaline into a tranquil person, and you can get a crazed and uncontrollable behavior.

Now if your brain can’t respond properly response to a situation, this “fight or flight” response will naturally come out. What might prevent your brain from working normally? A lack of nutrients! Researchers have repeatedly shown that a mineral imbalance can dramatically alter your brains biochemistry, energy production, neurological response, and subsequent behavior.

So if you improve your diet with nutrient-rich foods and it causes an immediate drop in violence, is IED a real disease? Or is it simply the visible symptom of a more insidious problem – a brain starving for minerals? You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure this one out.

Action to take: If you or a loved one struggles with rage, don’t let a shrink label you with this new diagnosis. And definitely don’t let the shrink spoon-feed drugs to “solve” the problem.
You’ll be stuck with the label and the drugs for the rest of your life.

Instead, head to your integrative physician. Have your minerals, amino acids, and other nutritional deficiencies evaluated and fixed. The brain you save and the anger you avoid might be your own.

Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert Jay Rowen, MD