Posted on 07/28/2013 9:59:38 AM PDT by neverdem
Watermelon is also the best hangover cure.
(lots of hydration)
MUCH Better!
back in the day....Football, Now Avid Cyclist. (You know one of those guys in spandex FR love to hate.:) )
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/phys-ed-can-pickle-juice-stop-muscle-cramps/?_r=0
Tonic waters main ingredient is Quinine. Which is an effective muscle relaxant and used to treat “restles leg syndrome” and night cramps.
I like the pickle juice because a side benefit is it seems to lower body temp within seconds of ingestion.
So, which star athlete would dare lend their endorsement to the new energy drink- Melonade?
It worked for the Eagles against the Cowboys a few years back at Texas Stadium when the temperature was over 100 degrees, the Eagles went on and whupped the Cowboys real good that day.
You are correct sir.!!!
http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/chompions/201112/meet-new-energy-drink-pickle-juice
You're slipping there, doc.
If there are health benefits to watermelon, I am going to live to be 105. I eat massive amounts of the stuff. I just bought my eleventh watermelon for the season and have eaten nearly every single one of them completely as no one in the house really eats much of it. (and this season I was gone for a month in Sweden were I didn’t buy any because a watermelon there costs $10-15)
You are terrible! LOL Post of the day.
We just put a seedless one through our champion juicer. Love watermelon juice. It is also a natural diuretic.
I’m not aware of fructose from fruit or fruit juice being associated with any pathology. Fiber slows the absorption of fructose.
HFCS55 in soft drinks correlates rather well. It started being used in the early 1970s. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease showed up about a decade later.
My daughter loves them frozen. I take one, clean the outside thoroughly with dilute bleach, slice it into neat wedges and put those in ziploc bags in the freezer. She could probably eat her weight in frozen watermelon.
It's interesting to note that NAFLD began showing up about the same time as the obesity epidemic.
I'm still waiting for you to sing the praises of HFCS 42, since it offers so much less fructose than the sucrose it replaces.
Can you say ‘watermelon’ these days any more? Isn’t that rassiss?
I have never tried it frozen. Have to give it a whirl.
She makes ‘do’ with the watermelon. I won’t let her have popsicles or other fake stuff. But it IS good. Especially on a really hot day when you’ve been outside working.
It has less fructose than sucrose, and that may be a good thing, but I never had a problem with it as long as folks don't pig out on carbs, especially sweet carbs because they are addictive. They had to change the composition of placebos once they understood that the old sugar pills caused the release of endorphins.
I believe there was a confluence of unfortunate events in the 1970s and 80s. Corporal punishment of kids became an unacceptable form of discipline. Video games started taking hold of kids attention. HFCS55 could really be as much as 65 % fructose. Those who made soft drinks wanted to keep their market share. Why not make it as sweet as possible?
Parents were reduced to rewarding good behavior with sweets and providing enjoyable entertainment and punishing bad behavior by denying their kids access to those desires. It didn't help that playing video games and watching TV are sedentary activities.
Paid for by the National Watermelon Association. Eat more watermelon!
I could care less who funded it if the results are real and reproducible. Battalions of Amazons sans steroids could be for real!
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