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Pomegranate Power!
There are healing values in
Pomegranates. They are among
my favorite fruits for many reasons.
Date: 11/26/2006 2:07:38 PM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 1447 times 12:05 PM
November 26, 06
Heading for the FM, God willing.
I want more pomegranates and they
are available!
I sense, Pomegranates help us
get ready for Winter....
This is tied in with a mystical
story of living in the Underworld
of the Winter of our Souls.
I do not understand this fully.
Just an insight...
12:27 PM
November 22, 06
I took this photo for Andrew Gaeddert,
who is the inspiration behind Health Concerns,
one of the great Heart and Soul companies
in the natural product industry.
I am taking pomexcellent now,
a new product that I discovered
at the Pacific Symposium.
The product improved cardiovasular health.
I need this.
I do not move as much as would be good for me.
I have been amazing how many hours I have been able
to sit painfree the last few days.
I am working way beyond my normal load.
Yesterday I worked from early morning to late night,
sitting.
I was so exhausted when I finished that I
just got up and went to bed.
I do not recommend such an oddball way of living
or working, or driving yourself.
I can feel my inner child feeling really pissed off
and angry that I am doing this.
I am promising him a wonderful Thanksgiving with no
computerizing!!!!!!!
I will be with my farming family tomorrow,
Joe the Farmer and Family at the farm in Escondido.
I am not sure yet where I will be on Friday.
Maybe I will go North and enjoy the company of my
extended Spiritual family. We get together on special
occasions at times.
Friday is a VERY SPECIAL DAY not only
for Thanksgiving, but on the Mayan Calender!!!!
IT is the beginning of the Fifth Day.
See link below about the Fifth Day.
Today is a day to finish work.
I am doing my best.
I still have lots I want to do today
including print in hand more ocpies of
"Rekindling of Faith."
I want to see my Arab Friends,
and then my Hispanic family tomorrow.
Dr. Bernard Jensen, my spiritual father,
thought a lot of pomegranates.
He loved them so much that he had a whole
freezer full of white buckets of pomegranate seeds!
I would work in that trailer doing editing.
I could not help myself. I would eat from his
bounty of Pomegranate seeds that were in the freezer.
I chew up the whole seed and swallow it.
There is a lot of research about the benefits of these seeds.
Jensen always said, that the more seeds a fruit had,
the more power. Seed contain fertility power.
I am going to go eat some fresh pomegranate seeds now!
Then, I am going to complete my emails
and get into a celebration mood.
your eg
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Sources for Pomexcellent:
I see a shopping cart for it here:
http://www.emersonecologics.com/ProductInformation.asp?BrowseBy=POMEX
I see where it is available to Health Care
Practitioners on the Health Concerns Site:
http://www.healthconcerns.com/pro/
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Health Benefits of Pomegranates:
http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Nutrition-Vitamins/5-09-29PomegranateHot.htm
And, there is research to back up their claims, and then some.
“Pomegranates have beneficial effects on heart disease, haemorrhoids, fertility and blood pressure - among other things - and this week, scientists have discovered their usefulness in treating prostate cancer and osteoarthritis,” notes Rhodes in the Telegraph.
“A single pomegranate,” she reports “provides 40 per cent of an adult's recommended daily allowance of vitamin C, and is a rich source of folic acid and vitamins A and E. One pomegranate also contains three times the antioxidant properties of red wine or green tea.”
She observes that there is evidence to support the healing and protective benefits in these diseases:
“Cancer: pomegranates contain high levels of flavenoids - a type of antioxidant - which are exceptionally effective at neutralising cancer-causing free radicals. Research published this year suggests that the fruit may be effective at fighting both breast and skin cancer, and this week American scientists found that pomegranate juice slowed the growth of prostate cancer cells in mice injected with the human form of the disease.
“Heart disease: new research has found that one glass of pomegranate juice a day could improve blood flow to the heart by more than a third. The fruit's antioxidant properties prevent bad cholesterol from forming, which keeps the arteries clear and reduces the likelihood of heart attacks and strokes. A separate study found that drinking pomegranate juice regularly can also dramatically reduce the size of atherosclerotic lesions, which narrow the arteries and cause heart failure.
“Osteoarthritis: the most recent revelation about the pomegranate's health benefits suggests that extracts of the fruit could prevent the onset of osteoarthritis. Scientists in America treated samples of human cartilage damaged by osteoarthritis with the extract and found that it inhibited the production of the enzyme responsible for causing the damage. Further research is needed to establish whether consuming the extract could protect cartilage as effectively.”
But that is only a partial list. Pomegranate has been found to possess antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that have potential therapeutic benefits in a variety of diseases.
And here may be a key - a bonus with the native Persian fruit is that its antioxidant constituents are rapidly absorbed by the body and are non-toxic, researchers say.
And here are more success stories.
Unborn babies: Expectant mothers at risk of premature birth may want to consider drinking pomegranate juice to help their babies resist brain injuries from low oxygen and reduced blood flow, a mouse study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests last June.
Skin Cancer: According to researchers from the University of Wisconsin, one promising agent against skin cancer may have been found in the extract of the pomegranate fruit. "For the first time, we have clear evidence that pomegranate extract possesses anti-skin-tumor-promoting effects," said Dr. Farrukh Afaq, lead investigator of the study.
What is clear from all this research is that it is the antioxidant qualities in pomegranates that are effective in fighting disease. An antioxidant is substance that prevents or slows the breakdown of another substance by oxygen. In the body, nutrients such as beta-carotene (a vitamin A precursor), vitamin C, vitamin E, and selenium have been found to act as antioxidants.
They act by scavenging free radicals, molecules with one or more unpaired electrons, which rapidly react with other molecules, starting chain reactions in a process called oxidation. Free radicals are a normal product of metabolism; the body produces its own antioxidants (e.g., the enzyme superoxide dismutase) to keep them in balance.
However, stress, aging, and environmental sources such as polluted air and cigarette smoke can add to the number of free radicals in the body, creating an imbalance. The highly reactive free radicals can damage healthy DNA and have been linked to changes that accompany aging (such as age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in older people) and with disease processes that lead to cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
Studies show that the antioxidants that occur naturally in fresh fruits and vegetables have a protective effect. For example, vitamin E and beta-carotene appear to protect cell membranes; vitamin C removes free radicals from inside the cell.
Antioxidants do come in the form of dietary supplements but there is concern by many that regular consumption of such supplements interferes with the body's own production of antioxidants.
Catherine Wagner Art, Pomegranates:
http://www.sjmusart.org/content/exhibitions/past/exhibition_info.phtml?itemID...
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Other Pomegranate Links:
London Telegraph Story quoted above:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2005/09/29/hdoesit29...
http://www.simonianfruit.com/recipes/recipepm19.html
http://www.pomegranates.org/contact.html
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Other Links in the Pacific Symposium Blog Series:
Altar Photos:
Photos from the Pacific Symposium '06:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=2018
Wrapping UP:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=2016
My Prepared Notes
for the Closing Ceremony.
Two minutes of this was delivered...
extemporaneously in part...
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1980
The Ceremony was a lot of fun...
and well received.
Declaring Peace:
Hand out to those who did the
Plant Your Dream Ritual:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1922
Oriental Medicine Wisdom:
Alex Tiberi,
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1982
Perimenopause and Menapause:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=2024
Donna Carey
Favorite Supplements.
Altar helpers:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1974
How Dog Food Saved the Earth:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1965
The story of one man who ate an organic strawberry,
switched jobs, and saved the Earth!
My friends at Crane's:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=2022
Depression Support:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1999
Enchanted Garden Insurance:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=2025
Introducing the American Acupuncture Council.
First Guava+ (Baby Pictures from Pac Symposium:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=2019
Parents R Headaches (more Photos):
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=2020
Rick Gold's son, Richo Cech, Horizon Herbs,
http://www.horizonherbs.com/
Rekindling of Faith #3
Wow! I sold my first copy
of "Rekindling of Faith!"
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=2004
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My upload page:
http://curezone.com/ig/igallery.asp?d=/blogs/your_enchanted_gardener/
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