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| Only the white flesh of the purple mangosteen is edible (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| English: Purple mangosteen fruit (Garcinia mangostana), together with its cross section. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
What did you eat today? You are breathing in the polluted air as you are reading this article, what type of defense did you provide your immune system with today? I hope you took your vitamins and minerals; did you eat any fresh fruits, or fresh vegetables and what about your children?
Now think about this, you can destroy the anti-oxidants in your food through your cooking habits. Do not microwave your vegetables or fish, either steam or broil; do not cover in fats and fry. Foods are delicate, and you can destroy any health benefits through any improper preparation. Foods are also biological organisms just like you. Now if you are like me and have a tendency to burn things, then do what I did and invest in a juicer and juice your vegetables and fruits, juice your way to healthier living. The amazing thing about juicing, there are so many combinations you can get your kids to drink their vegetables by adding sweet fruits to the mix.
Now let's look beyond the numbers, because of our ignorance, we as a population of people, have caused serious pollution problems on this amazing planet we live on. So we end up taking in roughly one billion free-radicals per day, in the form of pollutants. Let's see how many anti-oxidants we can take in; if we have one whole grape fruit and two eggs and one piece of toast for breakfast, and let us not forget our multi-vitamin, we will take in about 3,600 anti-oxidants. For a snack, we have a banana and a glass of milk that's about, let's be generous, 1,800 anti-oxidants. Lunch we have a fish with steamed spinach and one cup of whole-grain rice; that's about 4,000 anti-oxidants. Dinner comes, and we do very rightly and have a nice cut of steak and some steamed broccoli with red onions and mushrooms, we now add a yam to that meal, and we take in 9,500 anti-oxidants. For the day, we did not do very well at all, only 18,900 anti-oxidants. We are losing the football game, and we thought we were winning. What can we do? You can drink a lot more fruits and vegetables, by juicing them instead of trying to eat them, and you will not lose the anti-oxidants in these life-saving foods. There is also a newly discovered fruit from South-East Asia called the Mangosteen Fruit.
The mangosteen fruit has been used in South-East Asia for centuries for all types of aliments. To date, there is a significant range of known traditional uses such as; anti-diarrhoeal, anti-inflammatory, pain control, treatment of infections, fever control, gastro intestinal problems, skin rashes and burns, headaches, anti-parasitic, musculi-skeletal and joint problems, control of blood sugar and diabetes, infections - viral, bacterial and fungal, as well as mouth ulcers, prevention of atherosclerosis, dementia, anxiety and depression, cancer and anti-aging concerns, and there are many, many more. The list of health benefits continues to grow as more clinical studies and scientific research is done on this fruit.
For the last 20 years, independent universities and scientists have been doing studies on the mangosteen fruit. They wanted to understand why the people of South-East Asia did not suffer with the same diseases that we experience in this country. The serious diseases that are killers here in America are barley seen in South-East Asia. As the scientists were beginning to study this particular fruit, they found out it can help with disease control. A chemical compound called xanthone was discovered inside the skin of this fruit in record numbers. Another amazing thing was the record number of anti-oxidants found in this fruit. The mangosteen fruit contains the highest number of anti-oxidants ever found in one food source, an unbelievable 25,000 per fruit.
In nature, xanthone is very restricted in their occurrence, what I mean is look after the Aloe Vera plant, it contains only one xanthone, yet it is used for medicinal purposes in a variety of ways. When the news came out about how good, the Aloe Vera was for burns and skin problems, people began to grow Aloe Vera in their yards and break pieces off when ever they had a skin problem. Over 200 hundred xanthone have been identified in nature to date, and 41 of those are in the mangosteen fruit alone. That's almost a full 25% of all the xanthone that is known.
What can xanthone do for you? Xanthone are a new class of chemical compounds with biologically active plant phenols. Xanthone is a unique, biologically active group of molecules with a six-carbon ring; this structure makes the xanthone very stable and also allows it to be extremely versatile. Each xanthone has a unique chemical formula that permits the xanthone to perform a specific biologic function when consumed. Xanthone is so stable that they can defeat more than one free-radical at a time and render it harmless while still performing a biological function. Xanthone showed several beneficial properties such as, anti-inflammatory, anti-tuberculosis, anti-humor, anti-platelet stickiness and anti-convulsive. Scientific studies are making it evident that xanthone is responsible for a wide range of medicinal benefits experienced by people using this juice.
The mangosteen fruit is a food, not a drug, and therefore, does not have the inherent dangers associated with medications. The thousands of people now drinking mangosteen fruit juice for medicinal reasons are reporting positive beneficial effects on their conditions. The mangosteen fruit has three components, the skin or pericarp, the fleshy fruit and the seeds. All the components have the powerful xanthone and anti-oxidants, but the majorities are in the skin or pericarp. One thing you should know is xanthone must be consumed in their natural form. The mangosteen fruit juice is the whole fruit ground up in order to make a juice out of it; nothing is wasted, so you receive the full benefit from this amazing fruit.
By changing your diet to a healthier menu and adding mangosteen fruit juice, you will enhance your team players by supporting your immune system, so they can defend your body against the outside invaders.
You will have a wonderful quality of life!
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