Pensacola Chiropractic Nutrition Tip: Enjoy Some Melon!

Melons Tasty and nutritious. Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center takes care of back pain and neck pain and all such spine-related pain and knows nutrition is important in healing and continued health. Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center promotes 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! Pensacola chiropractic services clients will see this research is very intriguing!

BENEFITS OF MELONS

Every part of a melon - peels, seeds, and bioactive compounds – supplied health benefits in a new study. One specific melon from Honduras – the Galia variety – attracted researchers’ attention for its antioxidative, anticholesterol, antidiabetic, antibiotic (against pathogenic bacteria, protozoa, viruses), properties and thyroid function stimulation. (1) Agricultural researchers used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis to review the phytocompounds of Honeydew melon (Cucumis melo L.) extracts. They uncovered 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 think about is that cantalopes (“netted muskmelons”) are reported to be susceptible to surface contamination. What did researchers do to try 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 rich sources of quite a few human-healthy nutrients. The researchers studied and explained extensively just where the nutrients are in each level of the fruit tissues! (3) Amazing what grabs a person‘s attention , 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 (specifically the “carosello leccese” version of Curcumis melo L.) in a soilless, greenhouse environment with LEDs as supplementary light. This method didn’t negatively 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 investigators are attempting 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 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.

Make your Pensacola chiropractic appointment soon. May you savor some melon knowing how just how well you are taking care of yourself!

Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center shares how nutritiously good melons can be for our chiropractic patients’ healing and health.
 
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