- Grapefruit and all citrus fruits have a powerful flavonoid called naringenin that helps stabilize your blood sugar so you will burn more fat. It also decreases your appetite, helping you fight off sugar cravings. The fiber also helps slow down the absorption of sugar into the blood stream so you burn more fat.
- Green vegetables are low in calories and high in fiber. Eat three servings of green vegetables a day, and a serving with every meal.
From healthy eating and exercise to teach the world about autoimmune disease through her mother’s condition, scleroderma, Queen Latifah really is the Queen of healthy living and doesn’t plan on giving up the crown anytime soon.
Scleroderma is an auto-immune disease which affects many organs, including the skin and internal organs. It affects more women than men (about 4 to 1) and occurs in about 300,000 people in the USA. Its peak incidence is in the late 40s and early 50s, but people as young as 3 and as senior as 80 can develop scleroderma. A cure has not been found to date but treatments are encouraging with better outcomes from new therapies compared to even 10 years ago. Research is leading to better understanding of genetic factors and possible causes, but there is a long way to go.
We wish her mother a healthy recovery and many more years of life.
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