Fruits prevent cancer, lower blood pressure, but if eaten in the wrong way can be dangerous

Grapefruit is a popular fruit that many people like. However, when eating grapefruit should also be careful, because eating grapefruit the wrong way can affect health.

Citrus fruits are rich in zeaxanthin and beta-carotene and have powerful anti-cancer activity. A survey in Australia showed that eating citrus fruits can reduce cancer rates in the mouth, throat, stomach and other organs by 50%. The results also show that citrus fruits can significantly reduce the incidence of liver cancer.

Citrus fruits are often divided into four categories, oranges, tangerines, lemons and grapefruit. It is now grapefruit season. The following article, Professor Vu Khang from Peking Medical University Hospital, will introduce about the effects of grapefruit, and emphasize that eating grapefruit wrongly can also be dangerous to health.

The effect of grapefruit?

1. Eating grapefruit often helps with weight loss

Eating grapefruit will cause feelings of fullness, thereby reducing the amount of food entering the body.

If you want to award the weight loss champion of autumn fruits, experts recommend giving it to a grapefruit. This is due to:

• Grapefruit is a very low calorie fruit.
• After eating grapefruit, it will not promote the digestion and absorption of the human body, otherwise will cause satiety, thereby reducing the amount of food entering the body.

2. Help regulate blood sugar

Professor Vu said the thing to say in this regard is that foods that only contain calories will raise blood sugar. Therefore, grapefruit does not really work to reduce blood sugar. However, the blood sugar level of grapefruit is relatively small, people with diabetes can still eat grapefruit at an appropriate level.

Grapefruit contains sweetness, but its overall sugar content is very low.

Why grapefruit increases blood sugar relatively small? Although grapefruit contains a sweet taste, its overall sugar content is very low, especially when compared to fruits like bananas and pineapples. Grapefruit also contains chromium, a component of glucose tolerance factor. The glucose tolerance factor plays an important role in controlling blood sugar.

3. Lazy also helps stabilize blood pressure

For people with normal blood pressure, eating grapefruit will not lower blood pressure, for people with high blood pressure, eating grapefruit helps stabilize blood pressure. Mainly because grapefruit, especially grapefruit juice, is rich in potassium ions and has a protective effect on the heart.

Note when using grapefruit can affect health

However, it should be noted that if you drink a large amount of concentrated or refined grapefruit juice in a short time, it may bring health risks to the body. Grapefruit juice while taking antihypertensive drugs can cause blood pressure to drop relatively quickly causing heart damage and even other dangerous situations. People taking oral antihypertensive drugs should try to eat exclusively with grapefruit, or it is best not to eat grapefruit while taking the drug.

People taking oral antihypertensive drugs should try to eat exclusively with grapefruit.

In addition to avoiding antihypertensive drugs taken with grapefruit juice, there are also some statin-lowering lipids, such as simvastatin tablets, that should be avoided. It's best to eat grapefruit between meals, and don't eat it on an empty stomach in the morning. The amount of grapefruit eaten into the body normally does not exceed 3 packs per day, an average of 2 packs per day is a relatively appropriate amount.

To choose juicy, juicy grapefruit, you need to pay attention to the outer skin: glossy skin, blooming spines, round left fruits and heavy lifting. Many people do not pay attention to the spines on the grapefruit peel, but that is a sign to help you identify that grapefruit is old or young, the older the grapefruit the bigger the bumps on the skin.