McHenry Chiropractic Nutrition Tip: Enjoy Some Melon!
Melons Tasty and nutritious. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic treats back pain and neck pain and all types of spine-related pain and knows nutrition is important in healing and sustained health. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic encourages healthy eating, and fruits deliver great nutrition benefits. Future thinking researchers are attempting novel ways to grow healthy melons enough to keep us all fed! McHenry chiropractic services clients will find that research quite intriguing!
BENEFITS OF MELONS
Every part of a melon - peels, seeds, and bioactive compounds – provided health benefits in a new study. One specific melon from Honduras – the Galia variety – piqued researchers’ attention for its antioxidative, anticholesterol, antidiabetic, antibiotic (against pathogenic bacteria, protozoa, viruses), properties and stimulation of thyroid function. (1) Agricultural researchers utilized gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis to study the phytocompounds of Honeydew melon (Cucumis melo L.) extracts. They uncovered 37 compounds in whole fruit and 14 in seed extract. (2) Growing healthful melons contributes to healthy humans!
A NEW MELON COMBINES BEST OF TWO MELONS
Something most of us don’t think about is that cantalopes (“netted muskmelons”) are reported to be prone to surface contamination. What did researchers do in an attempt to tamp down this issue? They crossed 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 extensively just where the nutrients are in several parts of the fruit tissues! (3) Interesting what gets a person excited, isn’t it?
FUTURE OF MELONS’ NUTRITION
Another curious side note discovered in collecting research about the nutritional value of melons is about growing melons (particularly the “carosello leccese” version of Curcumis melo L.) in a soilless, greenhouse environment with LEDs as supplementary light. This process didn’t adversely impact the nutritional value. The bioactive compounds for human health were still there including methyl gallate (antioxidative and antiviral), α-tocopherol, and β-carotene. (4) Interesting what today’s researchers are trying as global population grows to 9.9 billion by 2050 to keep us fed and healthy!
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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 to The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management of spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise.
Schedule your McHenry chiropractic appointment now. May you savor some melon knowing how just how good you are being to you!
