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This article is going to be about fruit health benefits. However, I am afraid it is going to be impossible to give you all of the great benefits in just one article. There are so many health benefits of eating fruit that it would take volumes to name them all. All fruits have their own very special benefits and although I can not even begin to mention them all in a short space of time, if you will browse the list of fruits on this website you will find each specific fruit and the special health attributes it can contribute to keeping your body functioning to the best of its abilities. For centuries the benefits of eating fruit on a regular basis has been known. Many antique medical books and journals attest to the fact that fruit and fruit juices were recommended for different medical problems long before science advanced far enough to tell us exactly what was in a fruits chemical makeup to make it so beneficial. All our ancestors knew was fruit not only tasted good, but was good for their bodies, and that was enough for them. For instance, centuries ago, sailors aboard ships kept coming down with a debilitating disease called scurvy. At times the whole crew had it which made for a disastrous voyage with no one to run the ship and many lives were lost. What they didn't know was that scurvy was a disease caused only by a vitamin C deficiency. This problem was easily solved one day when someone discovered that sailors who had citrus fruits in their diet, very seldom came down with scurvy. Vitamins were not discovered until around 1920, so the sailors didn't know why citrus fruits prevented the disease, they only knew it did. By the way, an interesting side note to this story is that this is the reason British sailors became known as limeys. They were issued limes as part of their daily food regiment to prevent scurvy, and many of them were seen at times sucking on limes. So you see, fruit health benefits were known about long before the modern day health revolution came along. They just didn't have the science to know why it was so healthy.

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