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	Pomegranates are good for your health

n3ther

11-28-2008 2:00 AM

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pomegranate, health, cholesterol, fruit

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I need to start eating these...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3b04c48a-64a1-4b5d-960c-544b0bf0694f/3DC810EF-4975-4386-A4C0-41815308CA4A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/WBL02116/4-Reasons-to-Eat-or-Drink-Pomegranates.html" href="http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/WBL02116/4-Reasons-to-Eat-or-Drink-Pomegranates.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.drweil.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/WBL02116/4-Reasons-to-Eat-or-Drink-Pomegranates.html"><DIV class="txtArticleTitle txtArticleTitleGreen">4 Reasons to Eat (or Drink) Pomegranates</DIV>
	<DIV class="txtHomeMainCopy"><P></P><P>The pomegranate is an extraordinary fruit, steeped in history: the number of seeds (roughly 613) found in a single fruit were said by ancient scholars to correspond to the 613 commands of the Hebrew Torah. Now, renowned herbalist James Duke, a former ecologist with the USDA, has published (in the April, 2008 issue of <EM>Alternative & Complementary Therapies</EM>) an exhaustive review of the scientific literature on the pomegranate. His conclusion: it is “one of the most promising of health foods” with “a dozen known anti-inflammatory phytochemicals and some 3 dozen antioxidants.” Duke found studies that suggest pomegranate fruit and/or juice may help prevent or alleviate:</P><UL type="disc"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Atherosclerosis</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Heart disease</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">High cholesterol</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Prostate cancer</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Alzheimer's disease</LI></UL></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3DC810EF-4975-4386-A4C0-41815308CA4A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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