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5 ways with pink grapefruit
Grapefruit has long been associated with diets and weight loss, but we've come a long way since the 1930s 'Hollywood Diet', which consisted of three weeks of severe depravation and, as it turns out, a not particularly healthy outcome
Recent studies have suggested that eating half a grapefruit before a meal aids your metabolism and therefore encourages weight loss. Eating grapefruit regularly has also been found to help protect you against gum disease.
And it gets better. Grapefruit, as a member of the citrus family, is rich in antioxidants and high in vitamin C, which is great for your immunity. It's also been shown to help lower cholesterol.
Need we go on? Ever since the Floridians kindly transported the sweeter pink variety across the pond, the possibilities for recipes have been endless. Here are some ideas for getting some of the forbidden fruit into your diet:
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