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Punica proto-punica aka pomegranate, Granada (Spanish), Grenade (French).

Our first fruits from this tree was brought in last week. In our area they say you can't grow them but my husband has again proven that theory wrong?

This round reddish fruit is sitting in markets these day in large quantities and something you should consider as a health food!

The pomegranate a native from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean region since ancient times. It is widely cultivated throughout India and the drier parts of Southeast Asia, Malaya, East Indies and tropical Africa. The tree was introduced into California by Spanish settlers in 1769. Now grown for its fruits mainly in the drier parts of California and Arizona.

Granted, it is a bit messy and can stain clothes mercilessly, but the unique sweet taste and health benefits are well worth it. Recent research to identify foods high in antioxidants have brought the pomegranate into the forefront of the antioxidants with its high levels of polyphenols, tannins, and anthocyanins -- all thought to be important parts of our cancer-prevention arsenal. Food seeds of all kinds are rich in fiber ? including the pomegranate - making for a healthy intestinal system. "Prostate, breast, and colon cancer rates are higher in populations consuming relatively large quantities of meat and lower in populations whose diet is rich in ?seed foods.?" Journal of the American Medical Association

The pomegranate tree is a neat, rounded shrub or small tree that can grow to 20 or 30 ft., but more typically to 12 to 16 ft. in height. Dwarf varieties are also known. The trunk is covered by a red-brown bark which later becomes gray. Pomegranates are also long-lived. There are specimens in Europe that are known to be over 200 years of age. The vigor of a pomegranate declines after about 15 years, however.

The pomegranate fruit is almost a perfect round, 2-1/2 to 5 in. wide fruit with a crowned base known as a calyx. The tough, leathery skin or rind is typically yellow underneath and overlaid with light or deep pink or rich red. The inner fruits are separated by membranous walls and white, spongy, bitter tissue into compartments packed with sacs filled with sweetly acid, juicy, red, pink or whitish pulp. In each sac there is one angular, soft or hard seed.

Pomegranate is a delicious fruit, which has many potential beneficial compounds. Pomegranate has substances, such as polyphenols, that have antioxidant, anti-viral, and anti-tumor activity. Rich in the minerals Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc, Copper and Selenium along with Vitamins C, B-6, B-12, A, E, total ascorbic acid Thiamin Riboflavin, Niacin, Pantothenic acid, Folate and Folic acid making for a very healthy food! Pomegranate may also be helpful in maintaining healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels.

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin reported that a pomegranate extract inhibited skin tumors in mice, while the red wine compound reseveratrol, applied topically, inhibited the expression of a cancer-causing protein normally caused by exposure to UVB rays. Pomegranate fruit extract (PFE) contains several polyphenols and anthocyanidins (pigment that gives certain fruits their dark red color), which demonstrates a higher antioxidant activity than that of red wine and green tea, according to the Wisconsin researchers.

Seed removal tip: Cut out the blossom end, remove some of the white pith, but do not break the red pulp around the seeds. Score the skin into quarters. Break the pomegranate into halves and then halve again following score lines. Bend back the rind and pull out the seeds.

Uses of the pomegranate;

The juice gives a unique fresh flavor to sauces and marinades for fish, chicken, and beef. Use the seeds to garnish fruit salad, dessert, and appetizers. Pomegranate juice is the original ingredient in Grenadine although contemporary manufacturers may utilize a synthetic.

The seeds and crimson pulp may be added to fruit salad for a touch of color and flavor.

To extract the juice, separate and crush the edible portion of ripe pomegranates (do not remove seeds at this point). Place fruit in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out the juice, or cut the fruit in quarters and juice with a juicer. Most juicers will automatically extract the juice and discard the seeds.

The juice can be frozen in 1/2 pint or 1 pint containers, to make into punch later on.

Pomegranate Syrup is absolutely fantastic with pancakes, waffles or French toast... To make it;
Boil together 3 1/2 cups pomegranate juice, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 1/3 teaspoon salt and 1/2 bottle liquid pectin. When mixture cannot be stirred down, add 5 1/2 cups sugar (Stevia equivalent will work) and boil for 5 or 6 minutes.

Enjoy your red food!
Lena

Is A Fever Bad?
© By Lena Sanchez

With the colds and flu season upon us this bit of information about fevers could relieve a lot of mom's stress!

When my oldest son was 4 weeks old we rushed him to the hospital with a fever that I perceived as not good. He ended up in the hospital for weeks and no answers were ever forthcoming as to why?

A week after leaving the hospital the reason became apparent and would have been a lot sooner had we not kept him hospitalized and his fevers down. That was the beginning of my learning about fevers and when to lower them in and when not to...

I have always been a very inquisitive person in that I could not do a job of any kind unless I knew as much about it as I could. Being a medical office nurse was the same and gave me an education that was interesting and exciting as I watched, did my own studies and paid attention to every single doctor and how they thought, taught and practiced medicine.

As triage nurse in the doctor's office I handled panic calls from patients and advised them to see the doctor or not... I remember the dozens of calls I use to get from mothers panicked because their child had a fever of 101 as soon as the fever came on they were on the phone scared to death. I was sometimes able to get them to listen and could tell them that the fever was good and unless it went above 103 not to do anything, some just couldn't grasp that fact.

I worked for a few smart pediatricians but only four of them knew that fever is usually good and their patients were educated to that fact. But sadly 4 of the 9 pediatricians did not understand and their patients would end up sicker, after seeing them, or at the very least the problem would last longer than the other threes patients. So I had to walk a tight rope with each doctor's parent calls and guide them accordingly, but not what I felt was always in the patient's best interest. I could only do what I was told by each individual doctor until I found a way around it and could help both.

I learned that Fever is a necessity to the immune systems cleaning department. Without it serious illness can occur. Some physicians are geared to relieving a parent's anxiety and therefore force the fevers down interrupting the immune system. Those same parents would call back several times as their child would be ill longer and had more recurring illnesses.

A leading cause of fevers in children today comes after immunizations! A problem that exists from too many vaccines being pushed into our children
upsetting their immune system and becoming more so all the time as the drug industry continues to introduce more vaccines.

A vaccine for Chicken Pox is being touted as a means of saving our children. First off there have been no deaths directly from Chicken Pox only from the so-called cure given to them by the medical profession! Antibiotics and anti-inflammatories. This is found in the CDC's own records http://www.cdc.gov/ - May 15, 1998/Vol. 47/No. 18 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR, their official publication). It was entitled, "Varicella-Related Deaths Among Children. That is still true today!

Back to the fever!

Left alone, a fever usually will not exceed 105 or 106 degrees, unless it is a life threatening bacterial germ, which is extremely rare and I only saw maybe one or two a year in the thousands of children that were treated by the nine pediatricians.

And less than 4 percent of children experience fever-related convulsions, with no serious aftereffects.

A fast (on distilled water, or at least diluted vegetable juices) should be continued for twenty-four hours after the temperature has returned to normal in most instances. Liquid minerals should be added to either choice to help the immune system and prevent dehydration.

A good rule to remember is that the bowel can be cleared of toxins by enemas in twenty-four hours; the blood in three days; the liver in five days, providing no food is eaten. Shingles (adult chicken pox) that occurs in adults may require about a week-long fast to completely clear up. This does not mean no water. Clean filtered water should be consumed several times a day.

The liver, the major organ fighter of the immune system, is much too busy with eliminating the problem that it perceives to be happening to be bothered with the task of food digestive waste.

Great strain can be taken off that organ if no food is given. Not only does fasting lower temperature, relieve the distress and facilitate elimination, but it also lessens the strain on the liver. Hence the saying "Starve a fever." Preventing serious complications, such as middle-ear disease, mastoiditis and meningitis that can be a complication of an immune system's inability to do its job when the temperature is lowered prematurely.

It appears then, that fever, dreaded because misunderstood, is really nature's attempt to help. It is discomforting, but does no harm; never is attended with serious aftereffects and almost NEVER SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED with anti-inflammatory drugs or given solid food. I have seen many a case of flu pushed into pneumonia because some anxious mother or grandmother insisted feeding ?to give the person strength?, such as chicken broth or a thin starchy gruel, both liquids, of course, but protein and starch-just what the liver cannot handle at this point. Yes, I am aware that chicken soup is good for illnesses. (That study was backed by the chicken industry so what else could they say?) All the while the child or adult doesn't want to eat and that is the body saying to them STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN to me!

So called "infectious" diseases like chicken pox, measles, or whooping cough are actually inflammatory diseases. Not bacterial or viral as we have been told by the media so often. The symptoms during such illnesses should be viewed as eliminative crises. Meaning it will pass with time in a healthy child or adult, with no after affects in 99% of cases!

It may be very painful, but a necessary self-limiting process in which an accumulation of retained dead cells that become toxic from the illness, and the residues of undigested, unassimilated foods are being purged from the body through abnormal, inappropriate channels such as the skin or lungs.

So the familiar runny nose, cough, stiffness, fever, and numerous rashes, swellings, lesions, and eruptions through the skin are all manifestations of the same cause, which are not pathogenic microbes.

Fortunately, a wide range of bacterial strains, or their genetic ?blueprints? inhabit our bodies all the time in amounts low enough that their waste products do not affect us unless we mistreat our immune system. This process can be sped up and/or eliminate illnesses from becoming active by feeding the intestines probiotics. Probiotics are lacking in our fast and processed foods eating habits thus helping illness take hold.

Probiotic supplementing is one thing that can be done to help the immune system clear the body of the residues after becoming ill or taken to prevent a bacteria/virus from becoming active.

Read "Your Amazing Ecosystem Within" to find out what a probiotic is and what it does for you. Read it by clicking > Your Ecosystem

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Kids Entering Puberty Before They Enter School?

A report was presented at the annual Pediatric Academic Society meeting describing how a preschool-age girl and her kindergarten-age brother began growing pubic hair.

This was not an isolated case; in 2004, there was a similar cluster of five children, and previous clusters in outbreaks occurring along the lines of disease epidemics or environmental poisonings.

In 1979, there was an outbreak of breast enlargement among hundreds of Italian schoolchildren, most likely caused by estrogen contamination of beef and poultry.

Most commonly, these outbreaks traced to accidental drug exposures. But some physicians worry that children are at higher risk of early puberty due to the increasing availability of classes of drugs, cosmetics and environmental contaminants called endocrine disruptors.

In the case of the two children described in the report, their testosterone level was nealy100 times the normal amount. The cause was traced to a concentrated testosterone skin cream being used by their father. The children absorbed the testosterone through normal skin contact with their father.

Sex hormones like testosterone are particularly potent because they are easily absorbed through the skin and resist degradation. Other known triggers of early puberty have included a shampoo that contained estrogen and placental extract, shampoos containing lavender and tea tree oils, and industrial pollutants.

New York Times October 17, 2006

Spartanburg Herald-Journal October 17, 2006

LENA'S COMMENT: NOT ISOLATED AT ALL!!! Working with 9 Pediatricians for 3 1/2 years in the 70's clued me into this very happening. I saw children 6 to 8 years old in puberty and freaking out... Girls growing breasts, underarm hair and pubic hair. Some even started their periods... Can you imagine the torture those little one were going through? Boys voices changing and grow body and pubic hair, not as devastating but some had withdrawn from their friends and failing in school because of it... Once they were put on a vegan diet most reverted back and symptoms subsided, but only in those that were caught early enough. Being out of pediatrics and not active in doctors offices for the last 13 years I'm not watching it happening but you can bet it's happening much more often and seems to be even younger than the 6 year-olds I witnessed if it triggered this kind of report...