Food for Thought -Pomegranate

We may be seeing the fruit on a day to day basis but never had a mind to think about such a Quality healing fruit available to us on a   day today basis. Pomegranate is having the high antioxidant content among all the fruits. Which had a primary tendency to eradicate the free radicals available in the body .In other words the free radicals are created by the body immune system in excess of this free radicals are harmful to body and the this fruit has a tendency to act like a scavenger to clean all the free radicals in the body. Next to dark chocolate the natural fruit have a high anti oxidant tendency.

Few facts about Pomegranate:
 
1.Pomegranates have already been associated with reducing the risk of heart disease and preventing prostate cancer. 
 



2.Men who want to boost their performance in the bedroom should drink pomegranate juice, says a new research. According to the University of California scientists, a daily glass can act like Viagra.




3.Researchers had previously asserted that a daily 0.236 litre glass of the fruit’s juice not only increases the stability period of prostate cancer four-fold, but that the effect is so marked that they believe it can also make it possible for men between the ages of 60 to 75 to live out a full life span without the need for medical treatment, rather than dying from the cancer.


4.They noted that consuming a glass of pomegranate juice everyday extended the doubling period to 54 months, and that there was also evidence that the juice was actually killing off prostate cancer cells.


5.Apart from eliminating the risk of heart disease it also eliminate the risk of Glaucoma an eye disease which come normally due to increase in the eye pressure level.




6.There are some research studies proves that the people who are drinking Pomegranate Juice continuously have found that there is a reduction in the Blood pressure values.

The pomegranate is the native from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and was cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean region since ancient times. It is widely cultivated throughout India and the drier parts of southeast Asia, Malaya, the East Indies and tropical Africa. The tree was introduced into California by colonial Spanish settlers in 1769. In this country it is grown for its fruits mainly in the dry places of California and Arizona.

Today Pomegranate is cultivated through out the world now. It is available in all the departmental stores and supermarkets. Now a day you can see this fruits in all seasons now.