Showing posts with label Pomegranate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pomegranate. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 20

Efficacy Pomegranate Overcome Stress

UNTIL now I have found many types of medical drugs that can counteract stress attack. Yet a series of types of alternative medicine made ​​from natural to treat stress available in nature. One is the pomegranate.

In a study conducted on a group of volunteers to consume 500 ml of pomegranate juice every day for two weeks, have been found regarding the efficacy of pomegranate as an antidote to stress.

Throughout this period, researchers measured the pulse of the volunteers and asked them to fill out questionnaires describing the mood as well as about the conditions in the work.

From the results it can be seen that consumption of pomegranate juice for two weeks can increase the sense of enthusiasm, add inspiration, confidence is high, and body active.

Excerpted from The India Times, the chairman of the research of Dr. Emad Al-Dujaili, from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, said that the use of pomegranate juice is often very effective for maintaining health and fighting chronic stress that hit the workers. [mediaindonesia]

Wednesday, November 30

Overcome Hypertension with Pomegranate Fruit

It was common knowledge that the banana is the best fruit-producing potassium. But it turns out, there are other fruits that have twice the potassium of bananas, the pomegranate.
Six pomegranate contains 891 milligrams of potassium, which can lower blood pressure. The amount is approximately 20 percent of your body needs.

Pomegranate acts as a natural ACE inhibitor, which can reduce high blood pressure triggers the enzyme up to 36 percent. In fact, a maroon-colored fruit is also acting to reduce arterial plaque and improve blood flow to the heart.

A Dutch study of a number of people aged 55 years and over, proving that high potassium intake may reduce mortality rates.

As quoted by the Daily Mail, regular consumption of pomegranate juice also helped erode the fat around the abdomen. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh believe that pomegranate juice can reduce levels of fatty acids in the blood, known as the nonesterified or NEFA.

Emad Aldujaili and Catherine Tsang, principal researcher at Edinburgh University's School of Health Sciences, said, "Pomegranate juice is beneficial in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, because our results significantly and consistently able to lower blood pressure." [VIVAnews]