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San Jose Chiropractic Nutrition Tip: Enjoy Some Melon!

Melons Tasty and nutritious. Chiropractic Solutions 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. Chiropractic Solutions encourages healthy eating, and fruits deliver superior nutrition benefits. Future thinking researchers are even trying novel ways to grow healthy melons enough to keep us all fed! San Jose chiropractic services clients will find that research quite intriguing!

BENEFITS OF MELONS

Every piece of a melon - peels, seeds, and bioactive compounds – provided health benefits in a new study. One certain 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 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 adds to healthy humans!

A NEW MELON COMBINES BEST OF TWO MELONS

Something most of us don’t consider is that cantalopes (“netted muskmelons”) are reported 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 create an orange-fleshed honeydew melon fruit! This new fruit “Cucumis melo L.” is reported to be good sources of quite a few human-healthy nutrients. The researchers studied and explained at length just where the nutrients are in each level of the fruit tissues! (3) Amazing what gets a person excited, is it not?

FUTURE OF MELONS’ NUTRITION

Another interesting side note found in doing research on 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 did not adversely affect 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 our world population expands 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 illustrates 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 San Jose chiropractic appointment soon. May you savor some melon knowing how just how well you are taking care of yourself!

Chiropractic Solutions shares how nutritiously good melons can be for our chiropractic patients’ healing and health.
 
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