Fruit Diet on Citrus Fruits

It’s always good to go for one serving of a citrus fruit a day. Be it orange, grape fruit, or any other citrus fruits. Oranges are said to reduce the risk of cancer and heart diseases. Small oranges are found to be much juicier. Do eat the orange with the pith. Pith is the spongy white layer between the pulp and the outer peel.

While buying go for smooth skinned oranges rather than light weight and spongy skinned ones. Oranges are good for digestive and kidney disorders. Its rich source of vitamin C. Oranges does have lot of dietary fibers. These most popular fruit is great for respiratory system.

Following is what you can expect from a medium sized orange

Protein	1 g
Dietary fiber	3 g
Vitamin A	269 IU
Vitamin B1	0.1 mg
Vitamin C	70 mg
Potassium	237 mg
Calcium	52.1 mg
Selenium	64.7 mg
Phosphorus	19 mg
Magnesium	14 mg

    * It also does have traces of zinc, copper, manganese.
    * This fruit is highly beneficial for growing children due to its high amount of magnesium. Magnesium does help in building of bones. It also aids in a good dental health.
    * Orange fruit diet or orange juice diet is recommended for all who want to have a healthy nervous system and circulatory system.
    * This is a diet which can be taken during a fever. The system of medicine that I practice, naturopathy, never considers fever as a disease. It’s a symptom of an underlying cause. Do follow an orange fruit diet to get rid of the toxins.Cleanse the body system with orange fruit fasting. By sticking on to a normal diet while having fever person is actually giving more burden to the digestive system. Just ease your digestive system and by adopting a fruit diet the energy will get channelized in detoxifying the body.
    * The oranges are with great amount of pulp. Due to the same reason oranges are advised to be taken daily for cleansing the digestive tract.
    * Orange fruit diet is good for treating diarrhea.
    * There are people who produce allergic reaction to mangoes. Those who are allergic should not go for mango fruit diet.

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