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Juicing oranges in the morning is a wonderful way to get natural sugar and nutrients into your body in the morning.
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THE WATERMELON CAN BE BOTH the fruit and the plant of a vine-like plant originally from southern Africa, and is one of the most common types of melon. The watermelon fruit, loosely considered a type of melon (although not in the genus Cucumis), has a smooth exterior rind and a juicy, sweet interior flesh.
A watermelon contains about 6% sugar and 92% water by weight. As with many other fruits, it is a source of vitamin C. Notable is the inner rind of the watermelon, which is usually a light green or white color. This area is edible and contains many hidden nutrients that most people avoid eating due to its unappealing flavor.
Heart Health
Watermelon is filled with lycopene, which is a powerful antioxidant. Lycopene is a very potent antioxidant that helps reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. The National Watermelon Promotion Board has a page on their website about watermelon and heart health that lists the following:
1. Watermelon consumption increases free arginine, which can help to maintain cardiovascular function.
2. Eating watermelon can help to maintain cardiovascular health.
3. Watermelon has amino acids, which can help maintain blood flow and heart health.
Cancer Protection
The Watermelon is an excellent source of vitamin C and vitamin A, along with beta-carotene. Pink watermelon is also a source of the potent carotenoid antioxidant, lycopene. These powerful antioxidants travel through the body neutralizing free radicals and are very good at eliminating these harmful molecules and can therefore prevent the damage they would have caused. Regularly eating lycopene-rich fruits, such as watermelon, and drinking green tea may greatly reduce a man's risk of developing prostate cancer, suggests research published the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In this case-control study involving 130 prostate cancer patients and 274 hospital controls, men drinking the most green tea were found to have an 86% reduced risk of prostate cancer compared, to those drinking the least.
References
- http://www.whataboutwatermelon.com/index.php/2010/02/february-is-national-heart-health-month/
- Jian L, Lee AH, et al.
- http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/page.asp?ID=246&Detail=7793
- http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=31
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Watermelons.jpg
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Watermelon_flower_measurement.jpg
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kustodiev_Merchants_Wife.jpg
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The word of the LORD came again to Zechariah: “This is what the LORD Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other’ (Zech 7:8-10).
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Watermelon Basics
 
Boris Kustodiev. The Merchant's Wife. 1918. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Watermelon is thought to have originated in southern Africa, where it is found growing wild, because it reaches maximum genetic diversity there, resulting in sweet, bland and bitter forms.
Alphonse de Candolle, in 1882, already considered the evidence sufficient to prove that watermelon was indigenous to tropical Africa.
Though Citrullus colocynthis is often considered to be a wild ancestor of watermelon and is now found native in north and west Africa, Fenny Dane and Jiarong Liu suggest on the basis of chloroplast DNA investigations that the cultivated and wild watermelon appear to have diverged independently from a common ancestor, possibly C. ecirrhosus from Namibia.
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Joni's Testimony
Ten years ago, Joni Olive-Badalian fought cancer and won--with prayer and Juicing. She had surgery and a little chemo, but the doctor said her cancer was gone prior to this. The rest was so that it never returned. He then asked her husband George, "What denomination of faith are you?"
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