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Pomegranate - Botany, Postharvest Treatment, Biochemical Composition and Health Effects (Hardcover)
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Pomegranate - Botany, Postharvest Treatment, Biochemical Composition and Health Effects (Hardcover)
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The pomegranate is a beloved plant and fruit that has been used in
ancient times. The raw fruit, juice, peels and flowers were used as
medicines. The botany, genetics, cultivation and postharvest
treatment of pomegranates are discussed, along with the production
of juices and extracts. Previously published reports on the
biochemical composition of each part of the pomegranate are
described. This is followed by a list of potential health effects.
Many of these articles described the health effects of extracts of
pomegranates because (until recently) few journals would publish
articles that described the effects of whole foods. Based on
reductionist thinking, this approach required investigators to
isolate individual active ingredients. So, the book starts with an
introduction that compares and contrasts reductionist and systems
thinking. In reductionist thinking the whole is equal to the sum of
its parts, while in systems thinking and traditional medicine,
individual parts can act synergistically to cause health effects.
Modern medicine is becoming a fusion of traditional and western
medicine. Math, physics, chemistry and engineering are used to do
modern analyses of individual parts of the patient and his or her
diseases. At the same time, the traditional methods are used to
observe nature and look for the relationships between ions,
molecules, cells, organs and organisms. Moreover, medicine is
becoming predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory. It
uses genomic and metabolomic data to predict a person's
susceptibility to diseases and then provide advice on how to treat
or cure the diseases. It is personalized for each individual.
Patients are encouraged to participate in making decisions about
their own treatments, including their diet. So, hard scientific
data from previously published articles are used in this book to
describe the biochemical composition and potential health effects
of pomegranates. At the same time, the results are interpreted
based on the author's experience in analytical chemistry.
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