Pomegranate Fruit as The New Antioxidant

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 August 2010 07:45 Written by Natural Health Team Saturday, 29 August 2009 01:26

Pomegranate fruit which in Latin is called punica granatum, is discussed because it was widely thought to contain many antioxidants.

People used to think that antioxidant only found in green tea, citrus fruits, cereals sorghum, and green vegetables. Pome fruit is now also thought to contain many antioxidants.

In early studies, pome fruit effective in reducing heart disease risk factors, oxidation of LDL, oxidation of macropaghe, and foam cell formation, all of which is a step atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (heart).

Quoted from The Wall Street Journal of Health Tuesday (23/6/2009), has noted the benefits of pome fruit helps the heart, where the antioxidants contained in it helps prevent clogging of the arteries by cholesterol. Pome fruit also prevent prostate cancer, and is equipped with vitamins A, C, and E and folic acid which is important in the early stages of pregnancy.

Antioxidants that are most numerous in the pome fruit is polyphenols. These antioxidants can also prevent prostate cancer, these antioxidants also help slowing the disease.

University of California, Los Angeles has conducted this study on 50 people. The team of UCLA also believed that in pome fruit have anti-inflammatory substances, isoflavones that can kill cancer cells, and antioxidants.

Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that people who drank pome juice 3 times or more a week, can lower the risk of Alzheimer’s up to 76% compared to those who drank no pome juice at all. This can not be separated from the role of antioxidants contained in pome fruit.

Since many centuries ago, pome crops has been recognized as a sovereign remedy to treat various digestive disorders such as diarrhea and dysentery.

This is because of the high tannin content is efficacious as astringen, shrink the mucous membranes of the intestine so that less discharge diarrhea. While at its root alkaloids pelletierine helps remove tapeworms and roundworms from the intestines.

In general, the antioxidants in pome fruit can not function optimally if we do not maintain the pattern of life (lifestyle).

Another factors that can support the emergence of these diseases should also be avoided, so that the benefits of pome fruit can be maximum.

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