Dear member,

Welcome to the monthly news update of The Fruit Pages. 
Thank you for subscribing to this newsletter!

We're sorry we had to skip November. We have had much 
work with the new design of our site and we wanted to spend 
enough time to the newsletter to make this an interesting issue.

You might want to save this newsletter and read it later, 
when you feel comfortable and have some time, because it
contains important nutritional information.

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In this issue:

1- New on the site: Message boards.

2- Interesting (new) articles:
 * How to select the most delicious fruit;
 * Squeeze the fruits, the easiest way to nine a day.

3- Fruit of the month:
 * Cherimoya - The delicious fruit from the Incas.

4- Important new information about fruit:
 * Times Magazine - "Foods That Fight Cancer"
* Pysicians for Responsible Medicin (PCRM) - "Calcium in Plant-Based Diets"

5- Question of the month:
 * The effect of grapefruit on medication.

6- Sponsors.

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1- New on the site: Message boards.

The Fruit Pages goes interactive!
Read about the latest interests of your fellow fruit lovers, post
a message or just voice your opinion on any fruit-related topic.
You can also ask questions since The Fruit Pages' answering 
team checks all messages and tries to answer the questions in 5 days.
Visit the message board right now:
Message Board/Forum

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2- Interesting (new) articles:

* How to select the most delicious fruit;
Information about how to choose the most delicious fruit at 
the green-grocer's. A lot of common fruits are already 
mentioned and many will follow.
http://www.thefruitpages.com/pickfruit.shtml

* Squeeze the fruits, easiest way to nine a day.
Check out how  you can consume the largest part of the 
required nutritional elements you need for a day in just 10 minutes!
http://www.thefruitpages.com/juices.shtml

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3- Fruit of the month: Cherimoya - The delicious fruit from the Incas.

Cherimoya is the tastiest fruit of the various Anon varieties and
is originally from the part of the Andes (the mountain area) between
Colombia to Bolivia, at an altitude of 1000 to 2000m. 
Nowadays the fruit is cultivated world-wide in tropical
mountains and in sub-tropical or mediterranean areas. In Florida
it is too hot to grow cherimoya, so around those parts its sister, 
the atemoya is cultivated.

The cherimoya is called "the tree of icecream" and the fruits taste 
like a blend of pineapple, mango and strawberry flavors. 
Cherimoyas are ripe within two to three days at room temperature. 
You should eat ripe fruits immediately. 
Ripe fruits are black-green and give to slight pressure, like an 
avocado or peach. Cherimoyas are very vulnarable and are exported 
on a small scale. The cherimoya season is from 
October to May in California.

We're busy with a new Cherimoya page featuring more information. 
We'll let you know when we have finished it.
Information about cherimoyas:
http://www.thefruitpages.com/tropical.shtml

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4- Important new information about fruit.

We have found the following two interesting articles 
that you definitely must take a look at:

* Times Magazine "Foods That Fight Cancer"

Be sure to include red, orange and yellow fruits in your daily diet.
This because of the lycopene these colored fruits contain. 
Lycopene is an antioxidant that ripens fruits and gives them their 
yellow to red color. The redder a fruit, the healthier a fruit.
The article of Times Magazine of april 1999 describes tomatoes
as a fruit rich in source of anticancer agents but also red watermelon,
red grapefruit, pink grapefruit, guava, oranges and other frutis
with yellow to red colored flesh contain substantial amounts 
of lycopene and other anticancer agents. 
We found this information in an article from Times Magazine.
The information used to be available free at the following link,
but last time we checked it out we had to pay to if we wanted to read the information.

* Pysicians for Responsible Medicin (PCRM)
 "Calcium in Plant-Based Diets" 

Oranges are good for the bones, cow milk is not good for the bones.
Diets that are high in protein cause more calcium to be lost through 
the urine. Protein from animal products is much more likely to 
cause calcium loss than protein from plant foods. This may be one 
reason that vegetarians tend to have stronger bones than meat eaters.
Also: Orange juice is a better source for calcium than milk.
Read the article at:
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine: "Calcium in Plant-Based Diets"

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5 - Question of the month - Effect of grapefruit on medication.

Question - "How does grapefruit affect a person who is taking
high blood-pressure medication?  Grapefruit has lots of health 
benefits.  How can I still benefit from eating and drinking grapefruit 
products or what can I use that will have the same benefits?"

Answer -  "Consuming excessive amounts of grapefruit can have 
a negative effect on high blood pressure medication and on other
medicines in general. Grapefruit contains a certain substance 
that is responsible for this. Instead of having a lot of grapefruits
don't have more than a few a week and have oranges or other citrus
fruit to replace the grapefruit."
http://www.thefruitpages.com/citrus.shtml

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6- Sponsors

* Gifts Of Course:
Find your loved ones a healthy Christmas Present.
Christmas Sale Fruit Baskets and Gifts at: 

* Greenpeace:
Support Greenpeace by joining their cyber activist team. 
Act now: http://www.greenpeace.org/

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With kind regards,
The Fruit Pages

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