Dr T K Munshi
Cinnamon the common herb, not only adds a dash to your pizzazz, but it also has wondrous health benefits, including a dramatic effect on Parkinson’s disease.
A study at Chicago’s Rush Medical Centre, suggests that the popular spice can stop progression of the incurable ailment, which causes tremors that grow progressively worse and crippling. Researchers found that after being ingested, cinnamon transforms into the compound sodium benzoate, which reversed chemical and anatomical changes in the brain, brought on by Parkinson’s. Mice that were given cinnamon had better brain function and motor skills than a control group. This could be one of the safest approaches to halt the disease progression in Parkinson’s patients, says the Rush University neurology Prof. Floyd Davis. Cinnamon also helps diabetes by reducing blood sugar levels, lowers cholesterol, may inhibit Alzheimer’s disease and protect brain cells after strokes or injury and eases multiple sclerosis symptoms.
Pomegranate – the wonder fruit :
New research has found that substance in the pomegranate fruit actually lushes out potentially deadly blockages from the arteries . The study in the journal ‘Atherosclerosis’ found that extract of the red fruit “ may prevent and/or reverse the primary pathology associated with cardiac mortality: the progressive thickening of the coronary arteries caused by the accumulation of fatty materials known as atherosclerosis.” Atherosclerosis is the buildup of plaque which is made up of cholesterol, fat and other substances. Lab rats given doses of pomegranate extract showed a marked reduction of plaque collecting in the arteries, leading to the heart and to the heart valves, the study found. Also an earlier Israeli study found that drinking pomegranate juice daily for one year reversed the plaque buildup in the artery leading to the brain, by a whopping 29 percent. In addition to unclogging the blood vessels of deadly plaque the fruit:
Is an anti-inflammatory and inflammation plays a key role in cardiovascular problems.
Lowers blood pressure by enhancing nitrous oxide which relaxes blood vessels.
Kills bacteria that can trigger infections from plaque buildup.
The study boosts the contention of Nobel Prize winning scientist, Linus Pauling that the increase of heart disease in modern times was caused by vitamin deficiencies because today’s humans eat less fruit than their ancestors. In nut shell, the pomegranate study is more proof that : “ The future of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment will not be found in your medicine cabinet, rather in your kitchen cupboard or in your backyard growing on tree.”
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