Watermelon And Mens Health

It is for sure that the juicy fruit watermelon is 92 percent water, but that other 8 percent is loaded with lycopene, a phytochemical that may protect the heart, prostate, and skin. If people slice their water melon into 1-inch slabs, each piece contains as much lycopene as four medium-size tomatoes. The nutrient of the fruit can reduce the risk of prostate cancer by up to 34 percent, while boosting the skin's natural SPF.

In a current USDA report on watermelon, they stated that melons stored at room temperature were found to be healthier as compared to freshly picked or refrigerated fruit, water melon stored at room temperature gained up to 40 percent more lycopene and 50-139 percent extra beta-carotene. For that reason it is best to keep the fruit out of the cold until the day before people are about to eat it. On hearing about the finding of Texas, Irwin Goldstein, MD, editor-in-chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, was under-whelmed. Suggesting a man feast on the fruit, watermelon to boost performance, he says, would it be the equivalent of someone dropping a beer bottle in Minneapolis, where the Mississippi River starts, and hoping to see it make an impact on someone in New Orleans.

According to the study, to say that the watermelon is Viagra-like is sort of fun, but to even vaguely hope that eating watermelon will alleviate ED is misleading. Most of the Americans produce sufficient arginine and men with adequate ED are not deficient in arginine, adds the study of the medical director of Alvarado Hospital Medical Center, San Diego, and clinical professor of surgery, University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Though arginine is needed by the system to make nitric oxide, and nitric oxide is required to dilate blood vessels and have an erection that does not mean eating something that is rich in citrulline will make enough arginine that it will lead to better penile erections. Calling the fruit watermelon a natural Viagra is clearly premature, says Roger Clemens, Dr PH, adjunct professor of pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and a spokesman for the Institute of Food Technologists.

According to further studies, amino acid arginine himself, researching a supplement to improve vascular flow for patients with hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis. According to the study, it can involve a lot of watermelon to boost blood levels of arginine. A recent study on watermelon said volunteers who drank three 8-ounce glasses of watermelon juice daily for three weeks boosted their blood arginine levels by 11%. Watermelon is very low in amount of calories and provides potassium and the phytonutrients lycopene and beta-carotene, in addition to the citrulline. What the modern researchers touted is the presence of a precursor called citrulline of arginine, a common natural amino acid, in watermelon. Arginine component has a range of physiologic functions in the body and some help maintain sexual health and promote sexual performance. Citrulline is profusely found in the rind of watermelon. Unfortunately most of the people do not eat that part of watermelon and it's unlikely they get the amount of citrulline to have an effect.

• Cassandra Bagley
• 24/02/2009, 12:59 AM
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