The Healthy Richmond Pumpkin: Decorative and Nutritious

Name: Johnson Chiropractic
Address: USA

October 03, 2023

The pumpkin. Pretty. Recognizable. Valued from its being anti-anxiety to anti-viral and a lot in between! Johnson Chiropractic presents just how nutritious and useful the Cucurbita maxima, pumpkin’s formal Latin name, is, a vegetable whose flesh, seed, peel, flower, and leaves all offer nutrients our Richmond chiropractic patients can take advantage of. Extraordinary levels of minerals, flavonoids, carotenes, phenols, and total antioxidant activity are profuse in the leaves and flowers while the seed is loaded with nutrients and amino acids. All parts of the pumpkin have powerful nutrients! (1) Nutrition info like this is a part of the chiropractic service we deliver. This fall, maybe you will want to think twice about throwing your pumpkin in the trash!

DECORATIVE, DERMATOLOGICAL, AND MUCH MORE: anti-inflammatory, anti-anxiolic, non-irritating, antidiabetic, antioxidant, antiviral

The Cucurbita maxima is well-known for its ornamental appeal as well as economic value and as a generator of wasted resources when its time is up. It has plenty of bioactive compounds (flavonoids and coumarins) as well as antioxidant and pharmacological value that are just starting to be appreciated. (2) Pumpkin seed extracts were found to be safe and to extend significant anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties closely similar to aspirin and brufen/ibuprofen. (3) In the family of winter squash, the pumpkin’s Cucurbita maxima - with its polysaccharide substance plus its total phenolic and flavonoid content - has more antidiabetic and antioxidant activities than its related Cucurbita moshata. (4) Another study found that the nutrition of the pumpkin fights several viral infections (like HCV, HIV, ADV7, etc.) with its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral properties. (5) The peel has the greatest number of flavonoids. Peel extracts are not cytotoxic or aggravating to the skin, making them possibly effective for cosmetic product use. (6) The pumpkin’s value is more than skin deep.

PREVENTIVE OF NIGHT BLINDNESS IN CHILDREN AND EVEN ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION

What about helping prevent childhood night blindness said to be a worldwide problem? Fortifying yogurt with β-carotene (vitamin A) via pumpkin (and pumpkin pie spice and ground pumpkin seed) was proven to be a nutrient-rich food with the low-cost advantage of potentially preventing or decreasing childhood blindness. The pumpkin rendered it tastier! (7) The pumpkin seed that they ground up for the yogurt may also decrease the intensity of the central nervous system related anxiety and depression. C. maxima’s secondary metabolites like arginine, β-carotene, quercetin, and other antioxidants may be the advantageous contributors. (8) All these are beneficial for health.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Robert Borzone on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to help a patient get back to healthy organic gardening.

Schedule your Richmond chiropractic appointment today. No matter the back pain condition, that brought you to our office, enjoy your decorative pumpkin and figure out a way to use it for your health value!

Richmond chiropractic nutrition info on the pumpkin

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