An excellent source of vitamin C, lemons also contain vitamin A, folate, calcium, and potassium.  All citrus fruits are high in flavonoids, an antioxidant thought to block substances that cause cancer and heart disease. 
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Lemon Fights Cancer

If all that wasn’t enough, lemons also contain a compound called limonene which is shown to have anticancer properties in laboratory animals, so quite likely for humans also.  Test show citrus limonoids to fight cancers of the mouth, skin, lung, breast, stomach and colon.  This substance also battles human neuroblastoma tumors.  Researchers believe that limonoids may be better suited to for suppressing cancer cell growth than other nutrients because they stay in the bloodstream for a long time.
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Lemon Home Remedies

Instead of buying real lemons in your dishwashing liquid, and fake lemon juice in your food, get some real lemons or lemon juice!  Here are a few uses for lemon juice:

• Lemon Juice and honey (1/2 squeezed lemon and 1 teaspoon of honey) as a cold remedy.
• Lemon juice in hot water is widely advocated a daily natural treatment for constipation.
• Lemon removes odors from your hands.
• Lemon added to milk makes a good buttermilk substitute (1 tablespoon of lemon in one cup of milk).

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Other Lemon Tips!

Lemons will last for a week or two at room temperature.

For extended storage, keep lemons in a zip-locked bag in the crisper of the fridge for up to 6 weeks.

A lemon should be at room temperature to yield the most juice.

Roll a lemon under your palm on a hard surface to soften it before juicing and it will yield more juice.

A large lemon yields about 3 to 4 tablespoons of juice.
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Lemon Benefits Health!

Scurvy isn’t such a problem today, but miners in the California gold rush era prized them as a preventive against scurvy.  They’d pay up to one dollar per lemon, which was really expensive then!

You don’t have to spend so much for lemons today, so eat lemons and get some vitamin C and other goodies in your diet.  Remember, lemon benefits health!

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Lemon Benefits Health