by cheskarr on September 7, 2010
Do you dread it when the weather becomes cold and the pain from your joints returns? Or when you’re simply doing a simple household chore when suddenly, you feel a searing pain on your fingers or your back? There are many reasons of joint pain and some of them include gout, arthritis, muscle pain and back pain.
Although you can find many commercial remedies for joint pain, there is also the amazing tart cherry. Tart cherries come from the stone fruit family and are also known as balaton cherry, Montmorency cherry, pie cherry or Prunus cerasus. It is famous for its antioxidant quality which lowers the urate levels of your body. When the uric acid present in your system is too much, this is what triggers your joint pains.
Drinking tart cherry juice can help in decreasing the inflammation on your joints. Stress on muscles, joints and on your back is significantly minimized as well. It more or less mimics the effect of taking ibuprofen tablets.
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by cheskarr on September 6, 2010
An evergreen tree that has leathery leaves, mangosteen is a round, purplish fruit that is smaller than a tennis ball. The juicy pulp fruit has about has around four to eight segments. The taste of mangosteen is a cross combination between strawberry and peach, lychee and grapes or strawberry and pear.
Although the bitter rind is inedible, it is found that the juice from the thick and rough rind contain xanthones . Xanthones are biologically active, natural chemical substances that have potent antioxidants that can fight inflammation, bacteria, fungus infection, allergies and even cancer. The greatest discovery nowadays is that xanthones can inhibit the oxidation of low-density lipoprotein (LDL).
Mangosteen juice is used by many medical practitioners as the first line of therapy for many health conditions. It is claimed that its antioxidant s are the keys to treating diseases in the future. Mangosteen juice, however, should not be taken as medication but as food supplement to enhance and strengthen the body’s immune system.
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