Pomegranate Juice for a Healthy Heart & Prostate
Everyone must have heard of the health benefits of pomegranate. Of lately pomegranate juice is increasingly seen on shelves of markets which attests to it’s popularity.
The health benefits are manifold. Researches have shown that a daily glass of pomegranate juice can avoid prostate cancer and could even prevent fatalities in men suffering from prostate cancer.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin showed that pomegranate juice dramatically slows down prostate cancer in mice. Prostate cancer patients who have short doubling times (the time taken for the tumour to double in size) are more likely to die from their illness, and the average doubling time for the disease is about 15 months. But consuming pomegranate juice extended this period to 54 months – an almost four-fold increase.
For the normally healthy people pomengranates contain more anti-oxidants than any other fruit and 3 times the anti-oxidant power of green tea or red wine. Studies on heart disease patients showed that taking the juice every day increased blood flow to the heart. It also helps in lowering cholesterol and is a rich source of vitamin C and folic acid.
