By Karla Sullivan
Over the years, I have grown to love lemons especially in water or squeezed over lemon chicken and salmon. When I heard the expression when life gives you lemons, a negative connotation, I wondered how many truly understand the healing powers of lemons. Lemons do not have to be turned into lemonade to encourage effective protection against a variety of health problems.
Even though as of 2013, the Cancer Research Center of the UK cannot offer any clinical evidence that lemons be a health benefit to cancer victims, studies conducted at the American Urological Association highlight the facet that lemonade or lemon juice can eliminate the occurrence of kidney stones by forming urinary citrate which can prevent the formation of crystals. Lemon acts also as a blood purifier and improves the body’s ability to get rid of toxins.
Research does suggest that their may be a link to citrus linonoids and cancer cells helping to protect your cells from cancer forming agents.
Findings presented in the Annals of the Rheumatic Disease were drawn from a study of more than 20,000 subjects who kept diet diaries and were arthritis-free when the study began, and focused on subjects who developed inflammatory poly arthritis and similar subjects who remained arthritis-free during the follow-up period. Subjects who consumed the lowest amounts of vitamin C-rich foods were more than three times more likely to develop arthritis than those who consumed the highest amounts.
What do others think lemons can do?
· Keep potassium levels adequate; a single lemon provides 80 milligrams
· Keep bugs out of cracks in windowsills
· Homemade mouth wash
· Remove warts and acne
· Sooth a sunburn
· Fight throat infections
· Create blonde highlights
But remember proper nutrition can improve health. According to the CDC, healthy eating helps prevent high cholesterol and high blood pressure and helps reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes. Healthy eating also helps reduce one’s risk for developing obesity, osteoporosis, iron deficiency, and dental cavities. Proper nutrition promotes optimal growth and development in children and young adults.
