Vancouver Chiropractic Nutrition Tip: Enjoy Some Melon!
Melons Tasty and nutritious. Vancouver Disc Centers takes care of back pain and neck pain and all types of spine-related pain and knows nutrition is vital in healing and sustained health. Vancouver Disc Centers promotes healthy eating, and fruits provide great nutrition benefits. Future thinking researchers are attempting new ways to grow healthy melons enough to keep us all fed! Vancouver chiropractic services clients will find that research quite interesting!
BENEFITS OF MELONS
Every piece of a melon - peels, seeds, and bioactive compounds – offered health benefits in a new study. A certain melon from Honduras – the Galia variety – piqued researchers’ attention for its antioxidative, anticholesterol, antidiabetic, antibiotic (against pathogenic bacteria, protozoa, viruses), properties and thyroid function stimulation. (1) Agricultural researchers utilized gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis to review the phytocompounds of Honeydew melon (Cucumis melo L.) extracts. They found 37 compounds in whole fruit and 14 in seed extract. (2) Growing healthy melons contributes to healthy humans!
A NEW MELON COMBINES BEST OF TWO MELONS
Something most of us do not think about is that cantalopes (“netted muskmelons”) are said to be prone to surface contamination. What did researchers do to try to tamp down this issue? They created a hybrid by crossing them with honeydew (“non-netted muskmelons”) to come up with an orange-fleshed honeydew melon fruit! This new fruit “Cucumis melo L.” is described as good sources of quite a few human-healthy nutrients. The researchers studied and explained at length just where the nutrients are in several parts of the fruit tissues! (3) Interesting what grabs a person excited, is it not?
FUTURE OF MELONS’ NUTRITION
Another curious side note found in collecting research about the nutritional value of melons is about growing melons (specifically the “carosello leccese” version of Curcumis melo L.) in a soilless, greenhouse environment with LEDs as supplementary light. This process didn’t negatively affect the nutritional value. The bioactive compounds for human health were still present including methyl gallate (antioxidative and antiviral), α-tocopherol, and β-carotene. (4) Interesting what today’s investigators are attempting as our world population expands to 9.9 billion by 2050 to keep us fed and healthy!
CONTACT Vancouver Disc Centers
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Cox with on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes more specifically the nutrition of the disc and its relationship within The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management of spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise.
Schedule your Vancouver chiropractic appointment today. May you enjoy some melon knowing how just how good you are being to you!
