by Andi Progonati

Created on: November 11, 2010

The delicious pomegranate fruit is one the most important fruits that we should consider to have in our diet everyday. This fruit is harvested from the end of September up to the first fifteen days of January, but you can find it in every grocery during the whole year. The pomegranate was first planted in Persia and then it was sent in the Southern Balkans and after a few thousand years it became known for the rest of Asia and Europe. Since the first years when it was planted, pomegranate was used as a medicine. Only with the development of the medicine technologies it was concluded that pomegranate can "boost" your health. Lets mention some of the benefits of this divine fruit.

Prostate cancer: It is found that pomegranate juice if it is used frequently can slow down the development of cancer in the prostate.
Cholesterol: The pomegranate juice helps to raise the good cholesterol and lowers the bad one.
Lung cancer : Some studies made on animals show that pomegranate juice helps in preventing and stopping the development of lung cancer.
Alzheimer: Another benefit of pomegranate is that it might help in preventing Alzheimer's disease development.
Breast cancer: Pomegranate juice helps in preventing breast cancer cells forming and can also destroy those already formed.
These are some of the benefits that I included in this post, but for your curiosity and information you can surf the web and find many more.

Something else that I would like to add is that you shouldn't consider as useless the pomegranate peel. In Albania the pomegranate peel is used to treat cold. How is it prepared? In the simplest way possible: After peeling  the pomegranate do not throw the peel , you should dry the it for one or two days, until it color turns into a golden brown.  Then take the peel and drop it inside a pan with boiling water. Let the the peel boils along with the water for fifteen or  thirty minutes. When the water changes color ( it should turn into light brown or yellow) than it is ready to be drunk.So this some kind of tea that is used to treat cough, fever, running nose and sneezing.

There are many other ways of what you can do with pomegranates. Pomegranates are used even to produce wine, gummy bears, different refreshments, they can be used even in some kinds of soup or cakes. 

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