Super food of The Week The Pomegranate

The pomegranate is well-deserved the title of the title of a superfood, one pomegranate contains 800 or so seeds, which all have vitamin C, some studies have been done revolving around pomegranate juice, 45 test subjects were given either pomegranate juice or a placebo, and monitored these people had ischemic heart disease, there blood flow was measured during and after exercise, the research found that the test subjects who had been given the juice had had better oxygen deficiency, than those who took the placebo.
Which means increased blood flow to the heart. Quite a few other studies have been done proving that pomegranate juice or eating pomegranate themselves, can reduce LDL cholesterol which is the bad sort.

Also other research suggests that pomegranates may be effective against prostate cancer, pomegranates have also a lot of antioxidant vitamins in them, so much so they have three more times the amount than these three other drinks red wine, green tea and orange juice the role antioxidants have in the body, is they protect the cell walls from free radicals, think of them as spring cleaning for your body, like a little army protecting your cells from damage if it wasn't for the antioxidants then cell damage may occur which would lead to disease. Which in essence means eating foods with antioxidants in will protect your body from damage in the long-term.

Pomegranates contain the following vitamins vitamin C. which I have already mentioned they also contain vitamins A,E potassium and iron.

So here we have yet another all-round super food, if you don't particularly want to have to open a pomegranate up, you could always go for some pomegranate juice instead.

One pomegranate contains 105 calories, which isn't a great deal really when you think about it, so possibly one food that might be able to help in your weight loss programme as well as being a healthy option.