The Top Six Reasons Why Cherries are Naturally Good for You

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The Top Six Reasons Why Cherries are Naturally Good for You

 

 

By Joseph Mercola

with Sarah Potts

 

Everyone knows how delicious cherries can be, but did you know that they can

also relieve pain, help you avoid premature aging, and add years to your life?

Of course, eating cherries during these winter months can be costly and

challenging, but at the end of this article you’ll read about a very convenient

and wise solution that gets my absolute highest endorsement.

 

 

 

Help Fight Cancer and Disease

 

 

 

Cherries, along with many other berries, are a rich source of antioxidants. They

help prevent or repair the damage that is done to the body’s cells by free

radicals. This means that antioxidants replace free radicals in your body before

they can cause any damage.

 

 

 

Queritrin--a flavonoid--is rich in cherries, and has been found by researchers

to be one of the most potent anticancer agents. When eating cherries, the

queritrin is set free to fight off all the body’s cancerous cells.

 

 

 

Cherries also contain ellagic acid, a naturally occurring plant phenolic known

as an anti-carcinogenic/anti-mutagenic compound. Some researchers say that

ellagic acid may be the most effective way to prevent cancer.

 

 

 

Another compound found in cherries--perillyl alcohol (POH)--is extremely

powerful in reducing the occurrence of all types of cancer. Researchers found

that POH stops the growth of cancer cells by depriving them of the proteins they

need to grow. It has worked on every kind of cancer that POH has been tested

against.

 

 

 

Help Relieve Pain of Arthritis and Gout

 

 

 

Tart cherries contain two powerful compounds, anthocyanins and bioflavonoids.

Both of these compounds slow down the enzymes Cyclo-oxyygenase-1 and –2, which

helps to relieve and prevent arthritis and gout in the body.

 

Eliminate Oxidative Stress and Prevent Premature Aging

 

 

Cherries are rich in two important flavonoids, isoqueritrin and queritrin, which

act as antioxidants and work to eliminate byproducts of oxidative stress,

therefore slowing down the aging process.

 

 

 

Help Cure Migraines

 

 

By helping to reduce inflammation in the body, the anthocyanin and bioflanoids

in cherries also help eliminate migraine headaches. These compounds are known to

have similar activity to aspirin and ibuprofen.

 

 

 

Improve Body’s Circadian Rhythms

 

 

 

Extensive evidence points out that the antioxidant melatonin, which is also rich

in cherries, is significant in improving the body’s circadian rhythms. Since

melatonin is found in small quantities in the body, a slight increase can

produce great results.

 

 

 

Help You Sleep

 

 

Melatonin is also found to help the body’s natural sleep patterns. Since the

body so rapidly absorbs melatonin, cherries can increase melatonin levels in the

blood, therefore improving the way you sleep.

 

 

 

How to Get All the Powerful Benefits of Cherries … Right Now

 

 

 

A handful of fresh cherries in the summertime are a natural gourmet delight, but

if you want to harness the antioxidant power of cherries on a routine basis--and

you definitely should, as they are one of nature’s true “healing foods”--then

you should seriously consider red tart cherry juice concentrate.

 

 

 

Along with blueberry concentrate and pomegranate concentrate, cherry juice

concentrate is a super-nutritious, all-natural--and absolutely delicious--daily

addition to your diet. As part of my personal program to prevent disease and

avoid premature aging, I drink these concentrates every day, and because I

recommend them so highly as part of your preventive health program.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

You can also buy tart cherry capsules at a health food store. They

do seem to help suppress my brother's gout symptoms.

 

, " Maryann Call "

<wocall@e...> wrote:

> where do you get these concentrates----i've never seen them

>

> -

> " Frank " <califpacific>

> <alternative_medicine_forum >

> Saturday, January 17, 2004 3:44 AM

> The Top Six Reasons Why

Cherries are

> Naturally Good for You

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>

> http://mercola.com/2004/jan/17/cherries_health.htm

>

> The Top Six Reasons Why Cherries are Naturally Good for You

> By Joseph Mercola

> with Sarah Potts

>

> How to Get All the Powerful Benefits of Cherries . Right Now

>

> A handful of fresh cherries in the summertime are a natural gourmet

delight,

> but if you want to harness the antioxidant power of cherries on a

routine

> basis--and you definitely should, as they are one of nature's

true " healing

> foods " --then you should seriously consider red tart cherry juice

> concentrate.

>

> Along with blueberry concentrate and pomegranate concentrate,

cherry juice

> concentrate is a super-nutritious, all-natural--and absolutely

> delicious--daily addition to your diet. As part of my personal

program to

> prevent disease and avoid premature aging, I drink these

concentrates every

> day, and because I recommend them so highly as part of your

preventive

> health program.