The Power of the Pomegranate

By Kelley Herring

A glass of pomegranate juice a day may keep prostate cancer at bay.

The first clinical trial of pomegranate juice in patients with recurrent prostate cancer was recently conducted at the University of California , Los Angeles . The researchers found that polyphenols in pomegranate helped reduce levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), inhibit growth, and cause apoptosis - or programmed cell death - of prostate cancer cells in vitro (in the body).

The patients in the study enjoyed eight ounces of pomegranate juice daily, which contained 570 mg of polyphenols. To get the benefits, mix up your own pomegranate spritzer with one cup of sparkling mineral water, two ounces of pomegranate juice, and a lemon wedge.

Word to the Wise: Concatenation

"Concatenation" (kon-kat-uh-NAY-shun) - from the Latin for "to chain together" - is a series of interdependent or interconnected things or events.

Example (as used by Henry Gee in In Search of Deep Time): "The process of fossilization and discovery is a concatenation of chance built upon chance. It's amazing that anything ever becomes a fossil at all."

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