Category: The Best Years In Life

by: Tony Isaacs

(SilverBulletin) When it comes to maintaining good health, as well as fighting and warding off disease and illness, no organ is more important to us than the liver – the body's toxic disposal plant. A healthy diet is essential for good liver health, and there are also several specific natural food and supplement items which can help maintain and restore the liver to optimum natural function.

The liver is the largest organ in the body and is by far the primary way we eliminate dangerous toxins and other waste items, which are normally processed and eliminated via the bile ducts. The liver also helps process nutrients and stores vitamins and minerals.

When the liver or bile ducts become clogged, injured or otherwise impaired, some toxins can end up being stored in the liver while others are re-circulated in the blood stream. Also, when toxins cannot be efficiently eliminated via the liver and bile ducts, the body tries to eliminate some of them through secondary routes, such as the skin. Skin rashes, spots and other skin problems are common in those whose livers are impaired.

An impaired or damaged liver may turn into a fatty liver – a condition where the liver turns from its role as an organ that processes and eliminates toxins to one which stores fats (and toxins in the fats). Excess consumption of alcohol and poor diets are primary culprits which lead to fatty livers.

Fortunately, damaged and impaired livers, including fatty livers, can usually be restored to good health. Of all our organs, the liver can regenerate itself – so much so that a liver can be damaged or impaired all the way down to 29% of original function and still repair and regenerate itself completely if properly taken care of.

It is vitally important to have the liver and bile ducts functioning well when fighting a serious illness – such as cancer – in order to eliminate the toxins released from diseased cell die-off and destroyed pathogens. Famous cancer pioneer Max Gerson reported that he never found a single cancer patient who did not also have an impaired liver. Gerson insisted on his patients regularly juicing with healthy vegetables and regularly using coffee enemas, which can be essential in getting the bile ducts open and flowing.

Also, when someone is seeking to correct health problems or otherwise improve their health by means of diet and natural supplementation, having a properly functioning liver will result in a body that is better prepared to utilize the good nutrition and supplementation in any natural protocol.

A healthy diet and lifestyle are both essential for regaining liver health and function, including getting rid of fatty liver condition. Exercise regularly and include as much mostly raw mostly vegetable and some fruit as you can, including juiced vegetables and fruit. Stay away from alcohol, processed meats and other processed and junk foods. Lecithin can help turn around a fatty liver; however, be sure to choose lecithin derived from organic non-GMO soy. Other items which can help the liver and bile ducts are coconut oil, beetroot juice and apple pectin.

Milk thistle (silymarin) is likely the most important of all supplements for the liver. Milk thistle has been certified by the German E Commission (a body similar to the FDA) as effective at both protecting and regenerating the liver. Other important supplements are alpha-lipoic acid, selenium and curcumin.

by: Tony Isaacs

(NaturalNews) Over the past two decades, drug makers have increasingly shifted trials for drugs intended for the U.S. market to developing countries where it is easier and cheaper to recruit trial patients and where oversight is minimal. While outsourcing drug trials may save significant money for the pharmaceutical companies, the cost in human lives and suffering for both the developing trial participants and American drug users is likely horrendous.

Many have questioned how appropriate and ethical it is to test drugs intended for the American market in developing countries. Duke University`s recent report, "Ethical and Scientific Implications of the Globalization of Clinical Research", labeled developing country trials as scientifically questionable and morally inappropriate. The study noted that genetic and other population differences could render results that did not apply to the target population. The report also raised concerns over the role money might play in recruiting poor volunteers.

Lead study author Dr. Kevin A. Schulman said that such trials imply a kind of imperial exploitation of developing countries. "We don`t want to imagine that lower-income countries are the clinical trial mill for higher-income countries," Schulman said.

Until recent years, almost all of the drugs Americans took were tested primarily either in the United States or, to a lesser extent, in Europe. As recently as 1990, only 271 trials of drugs intended for American use were being conducted in foreign countries. By 2008, the number had risen to 6,485. According to a National Institutes of Health database, 58,788 such foreign trials have been conducted in 173 countries outside the United States since 2000. In 2008 alone, 80 percent of the applications submitted to the FDA for new drugs contained data from foreign clinical trials.

The actual numbers may be much worse because companies are not required to report all overseas studies and often list only a single study where the actual trials are conducted in numerous locations.

The drug industry refers to developing country trial recruits as "drug-naive patients" because they usually are not being treated for any condition nor taking any medications. Such patients are almost sure to yield better test results. The term could also apply to how uninformed the patients are. In many instances, patients are led to believe they are being given a medicine to help them and do not understand that it is experimental or that they may be getting a placebo. Consent may consist of only a thumbprint or scrawled "X".

It is much easier to avoid FDA and other institutional scrutiny and sweep negative trial results – including deaths – under the rug in developing countries. In 2008, the FDA inspected only 0.7 percent of all overseas trial sites. That`s just 45 out of the 6,485 locations.

The drug industry also has a phrase they coined for developing countries used for drug trials: rescue countries. Thanks to an FDA loophole, drug companies whose domestic trials have not yielded favorable results can use the results they get in developing country trials to "rescue" drugs, which otherwise might not have been approved.

Due to restricted press freedom and the ease of suppressing negative results, the true scope of the harm caused to "drug-naive patients" in developing "rescue countries" is not fully known. However, numerous discoveries and reports of drug trial deaths, uninformed patients and other acts of abuse and deception leave no doubt that developing drug trial patients are being killed and abused. Ultimately, so are untold thousands of American patients who are killed or harmed by drugs whose approval has been based on questionable trials.

Mad cow disease is the popular term for "bovine spongiform encephalopathy" (BSE), a fatal neurodegenerative disease in cattle that causes a spongy degeneration in the brain and spinal cord. The disease is transmitted by tiny micro-organisms known as prions. Five known human prion diseases exist, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, as well as six non-human diseases, including scrapie, chronic wasting disease and mad cow disease (which sometimes jumps to humans through contaminated meat).

Almost 300 people have died from mad cow disease to date. In addition, over half a million cattle have died from the diseases and several million more have been killed from extermination efforts. Although thus far prions have only been found to infect one to two people per million in the United States each year, as much as 15 percent of deer in some Colorado populations carry chronic wasting disease.

The new study was conducted by a team of scientists at the universities of Zurich and Tubingen and the University Hospital Zurich and was led by Professor Adriano Aguzzi. To see if airborne prions could cause infection in mammals, Aguzzi and his team exposed several small groups of mice to different concentrations and exposure times of aerosolized prions that cause scrapie.

All mice except one group, which was exposed to a very light concentration of prions, got infected and died about 150 to 200 days after exposure. Other forms of prion exposure typically require very high concentrations to do anything; thus, Aguzzi was surprised by the lethality of the mad cow prions.

"Common knowledge is that prions aren't airborne, and can't cause infection that way," said Aguzzi. "We were totally surprised and also a bit frightened at how efficient [airborne infections] were."

Most infectious diseases are spread by bacteria or viruses, which use genes to copy themselves. But prions are a third form of disease discovered in 1982, and they're made only of misfolded proteins. The misfolded proteins convert healthy proteins into long fibrils, which in turn create more prions until the host dies from destroyed brain and nervous tissue. Prion symptoms appear suddenly months or years after infection and are 100 percent fatal.

The prions appear to transfer from the airways and colonize the brain directly because the immune system, which prevents the passage of prions from the digestive tract to the brain, does not recognize airborne prion infection.

"Prions are like an enemy within, the alien in some B-movie that transforms people to an evil version," said prion biologist Edward Hoover of Colorado State University, who was not involved in the study. "The immune system doesn't see them coming."

Due to the disease's long incubation period, the number of human and animal deaths is expected to rise. Almost half a million BSE-infected animals had entered the human food chain before controls on high-risk offal were introduced in 1989.

Strict precautionary measures against airborne prion infections do not exist in most scientific laboratories, slaughterhouses and animal feed. Given the new findings, Professor Aguzzi recommends precautions be taken to minimize the risks of prion infection in humans and animals.

Aguzzi emphasized, however, that the findings stemmed from the production of aerosols in laboratory conditions and that Creutzfeldt-Jakob patients do not exhale prions.

Note: Both Natural News and the author oppose the use of animals in lab experiments as well as the inhumane treatment of animals in slaughterhouses.

Scientists are increasingly discovering how our DNA is being changed by outside agents and how the changes are being passed sideways to other humans as well as downwards to future generations. In one example of the dangers of DNA changes, a European study found that DNA from GMO corn was incorporated into those who consumed it and was subsequently passed down for several generations.

Much of the evidence of changes in DNA and DNA gene expression is coming from scientists in the booming field of epigenetics. Epigenetics is the study of horizontal gene transfer, also known as lateral gene transfer. Horizontal gene transfer describes an organism transferring its genetic material to an organism other than one of its own offspring – including transfers from one species to another.

In just the past year, scientists have conclusively found that a blood sucking insect can pass DNA off to the mammals it bites and also take the mammal's DNA from them through their blood – not just exchanging it, but integrating it. Epigenetic scientists and others are postulating that this horizontal gene transfer drives larger life form adaptations and evolution. In other words, what was once described as a vertical evolutionary "tree" is now being more accurately described as a "web". Indications are that the web we are weaving for ourselves is a wicked one indeed.

The evidence of how our health is being affected and how our species is becoming less viable is abundant. Despite spending more per capita on drugs and medical care than any other country, the US continues to plummet in the two important measurements of health: longevity and infant mortality. Alarmingly, we have plummeted to almost 50th in the world for longevity while we have seen increases in chronic illness across all age groups. Even worse, studies are beginning to indicate that our lifespan is actually decreasing.

Two other alarming indications of decreased viability are declines in sperm count and natural immune markers. Average sperm count measurements in the U.S. have dropped over 50% in only a handful of decades. In less than a century, markers which measure immune system response have dropped even further. Decreasing sperm counts combined with decreasing immunity means that we are capable of producing fewer offspring and the ones we do produce are less viable. Though some might welcome declining births, beyond a certain point continued declines in birth rates will inevitably lead to unsustainable populations.

Evidence of our declining health and future viability should be a huge wake-up call for all humanity. Don't look to mainstream medicine to save the day though. In many instances, their toxic drugs and treatments are major culprits. Vaccines are a stark example. Most vaccines contain known mutagens, yet there have been virtually no studies on their long term effects either singly or in combination. Mainstream medicine's role is compounded by ignorance of the roles toxins, diet, nutrition and nature all play in our health.

Better solutions for addressing these DNA changes should include taking steps to build a strong immune system and health foundation, such as:

*avoiding and eliminating toxins and other causes of DNA changes
*eating an organic diet of nutrient dense whole-foods
*living a healthy, active lifestyle

Anyone who has ever flushed a toilet while sitting on it has likely felt droplets of water splash upwards. The spread of toilet water is not limited to just those particles large enough to be felt. Thanks to "the aerosol effect", a veritable cloud of tiny droplets travels far outside the toilet when it is flushed.

The aerosol effect was first brought to light by University of Arizona environmental microbiologist Charles Gerba when he published a scientific article in 1975 describing the disturbing results of his tests on bacterial and viral aerosols due to toilet flushing. He conducted tests by placing pieces of gauze in different locations around the bathroom and measuring the bacterial and viral levels on them after a toilet flush. His results were more than a little disturbing: he found that the aerosols traveled as far as six to eight feet away from the toilet.

"Droplets are going all over the place – it's like the Fourth of July," Gerba said. "One way to see this is to put a dye in the toilet, flush it, and then hold a piece of paper over it"

In the Mythbusters segment, which has been cited to prove the idea that particles do in fact travel outside the toilet, what the Mythbusters team actually found was that fecal coliform bacteria can be found everywhere – including on a pair of "control" toothbrushes they put away in a medicine cabinet in another room. Such a finding is hardly reassuring nor is it in any way proof that particles do not travel from the toilet to exposed toothbrushes. Plus, the Mythbusters team only tested for bacteria and not actual particles nor viruses.

It is true that many do not consider fecal coliform bacteria to be a health risk since they are found naturally in the human body – primarily in the lower digestive tract where the body processes and eliminates waste. However, that does not mean that it is a good idea to introduce the bacteria into our mouths.

Fecal coliform grows in an environment similar to other waterborne bacteria, and thus their presence outside of the body means that other bacteria like hepatitis A or dysentery could also be present. Notably, municipal water districts test for the presence of fecal coliform bacteria to determine whether waste treatment is being conducted properly.

Obviously, it is not healthy to leave toothbrushes exposed in the bath room. Toothbrushes should be covered and protected and toilet lids should be closed before flushing. Since bacteria can accumulate on toothbrushes wherever they are located, it would also be a good idea to regularly clean them with an item such as a UV device made for that purpose and/or to spritz some colloidal silver on them prior to use. Another good idea would be to use a natural antiseptic toothpaste product such as one which contains tea tree oil.

The new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, looked at 172 recent clinical trials published on drugs that were being prescribed while they were still under scrutiny. While some of the drugs were new ones, many were already available on the US market. However, those drugs had been approved in different doses or different combinations, and in many instances they may have been approved for different conditions than those the cancer doctors were prescribing for. It was unclear how many doctors prescribed drugs for unapproved conditions; however, it is a common practice, with one fifth of all US drugs prescribed as off-label prescriptions.

Dr. Jeffrey Peppercorn, a cancer doctor at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, who led the new research, noted that patients and doctors were frequently searching for new drugs and therapies that offered better hope than present conventional treatments.

"We know there is a high demand for new treatments in oncology," said Peppercorn, who noted that he had found in an earlier survey that more than eight in 10 cancer doctors prescribe medications that are still being tested. While Peppercorn did not advocate an end to prescribing experimental drugs, he nevertheless stated that "it is done far more often than it should be."

Dr. Steven Joffe, an ethicist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston who has worked with Peppercorn on earlier studies, agreed with the need for caution in prescribing experimental drugs. He noted that doctors "may think they know that it works. But the fact is, somebody is running a study to find out if it does. Almost by definition it hasn't been proved safe and effective."

Peppercorn said that doctors should be very clear about the high risks involved. One way to do that, said Peppercorn, would be to require that cancer doctors get informed consent from patients before starting them on any experimental drugs.

The actual figures for harm and benefits of using experimental drugs may be even more disturbing than those revealed in the new study. Negative effects are under-reported and survival improvements are often measured in mere months or even weeks. In addition, industry-funded studies often have data manipulated to provide positive results – thus it is likely that some of the trials which did return positive results over-stated those results.

The problem with conventional cancer therapies is that they attempt to eliminate the symptoms of cancer (tumors) without addressing the root causes or helping the patient avoid the return of cancer even in the instances where it appears to be eliminated. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation have been the mainstays of conventional medicine in the largely failed war on cancer for forty years now. All three weaken the body and immune system and often lead to the spread of cancer or else pave the way for future cancers. Chemo drugs and radiation actually cause cancer.

Meanwhile, natural therapies abound which can eliminate the tumors, correct the root causes and prevent cancer from returning. However, such therapies are not patentable, controllable or very profitable. Thus few doctors know about them and fewer still are brave enough to use them.

C difficile is a bacterium that can cause symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening inflammation of the colon and it most often affects older adults in hospital long term care facilities. It typically occurs after use of antibiotic medications.

In recent years, C difficile infections have become more frequent, more severe and more difficult to treat. C difficile infections occur primarily in hospitalized patients, causing as many as 3 million cases of diarrhea and colitis per year. Approximately 20% of individuals who are hospitalized acquire C difficile, and more than 30% of these patients develop diarrhea.

Over the past 20 years, the incidence of C difficile has more than doubled in the U.S, as has deaths attributable to C difficile. C difficile has also risen in Europe. In one region in Canada, the incidence quadrupled in 2003.

The chief risk factor for C difficile is exposure to antibiotics. Prolonged antibiotic use or the use of 2 or more antibiotics increases the risk. However, even brief exposure to any single antibiotic can cause C difficile colitis. Better natural options would be building a strong natural immune system and using natural pathogen destroyers such as colloidal silver, oregano oil, and garlic.

The most common antibiotics implicated in C difficile colitis include cephalosporins, ampicillin/amoxicillin, and clindamycin. Less commonly implicated antibiotics include erythromycin, clarithromycin, azithromycin and other penicillins.

C difficle re-occurs about 20% of the time. Notably, mainstream medicine usually attempts to treat C difficile with other antibiotics which have themselves been shown to cause the disease.

Signs and symptoms may not appear for weeks or even months after exposure to antibiotics. Some people with C difficile never become ill but may still spread the infection. The most common symptoms of mild to moderate C difficile disease are watery diarrhea three or more times a day and mild abdominal cramping and tenderness. In more severe cases, the colon may become inflamed (colitis) or form patches of raw tissue that bleed or produce pus.

Signs and symptoms of severe infection include:

*Watery diarrhea 10 to 15 times a day
*Moderate to severe abdominal cramping and pain
*Nausea
*Fever
*Blood or pus in the stool
*Dehydration
*Appetite loss
*Weight loss

Anti-diarrhea medicines should be avoided with C difficile, since such medications could result in toxins remaining present in an already inflamed colon. Better natural options would be to consume at least 2 ripe bananas and a glass of organic buttermilk every day. Drinking coconut water has been known to be helpful.

Papaya, carrot and raw cabbage juice have also been beneficial. A good diet would be steamed vegetables, rice and homemade cottage cheese. Things to avoid include caffeine, alcohol, smoking, meat, refined sugar and salty foods.

With severe C difficile, complete bed rest may be advisable and one should eliminate stress and tension. During diarrhea, drinking lots of water is important to keep well hydrated. It is also important to replace lost electrolytes.

BPA is known to mimic estrogen and otherwise interfere with the hormonal system, and studies have linked it to elevated risks of cancer, diabetes and heart disease. According to Yale University researcher Hugh Taylor, BPA can increase the impact of naturally occurring estrogens like those found in soy, increasing a person's risk of breast cancer and other conditions. Taylor also said that BPA can effect "epigenetic changes"; these changes modify the way that the body's genes are expressed in a way that can be passed on to an exposed person's children and grandchildren.

Studies have shown that it also affects the baby ratio and results in fewer male babies due to the estrogen mimicking qualities of BPA. Other studies have shown that prenatal exposure to BPA in plastics makes young girls aggressive.

In addition, BPA has been linked to a number of other problems: including, brain cell connection interference, increased risks of reproductive and immune system diseases and disorders, problems with liver function testing, premature puberty, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and Erectile Dysfunction and male sexual problems.

Canada's announcement is the culmination of two year's deliberations and comes in spite of fierce opposition from plastic makers and the food industry, who have repeatedly given false assurances of BPA's safety. The American Chemistry Council executive director Steven Hentges said the move was "contrary to the weight of worldwide scientific evidence, unwarranted and will unnecessarily confuse and alarm the public".

Recently the European Food Safety Authority dismissed scientific concerns raised recently in scores of studies, and they said that it had found no scientific evidence that would lead it to recommend altering the tolerable daily intake of the chemical.

However, the Canadian Government disagreed and said that its actions had been based on "robust and relevant scientific evidence". Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, stated that "Our science indicated that Bisphenol A may be harmful to both human health and the environment and we were the first country to take bold action in the interest of Canadians".

In the order adding BPA to the toxic register, Health Canada identified dietary intake as the primary source of human exposure and underlined concerns regarding the link between the chemical and neurodevelopmental and behavioral effects.

Rick Smith, executive director of the Toronto advocacy group Environmental Defence, applauded Wednesday's announcement.

"It's a great victory for every mom and dad who sent a letter to their MP demanding that the federal government do a better job protecting the health of Canadians," said Smith, who noted that the toxic listing is the foundation for developing regulations to manage the risks posed by the chemical. Smith predicted that BPA will be removed from food and beverage containers in a few years.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., where only two canned goods makers do not use BPA and where the toxic substance is so ubiquitous that it is found on cash register receipts in food stores, the FDA has been dragging their feet for years. This past January, the FDA did finally admit for the first time that "some concern" exists over the chemical's effects.

BPA shows up in the urine of 93 percent of Americans, and in 90 percent of all newborns.

Ioannidis was unusually well prepared to enter medical research: he had been a math prodigy of near-celebrity status in high school and both of his parents were physician-researchers. He believed he would be able to follow his parents' footsteps and use math to better support findings in a surprisingly sloppy field. "I assumed that everything we physicians did was basically right, but now I was going to help verify it," he said. "All we'd have to do was systematically review the evidence, trust what it told us, and then everything would be perfect."

It didn't turn out that way. When he pored over medical journals, Ioannidis was struck by how many findings of all types were later refuted and he was shocked at the range and reach of the reversals in everyday medical research.

Randomized controlled trials, which compare how one group responds to a treatment against how an identical group without the treatment fares, "had long been considered nearly unshakable" said Ioannidis. But they too ended up sometimes being wrong. "I realized even our gold-standard research had a lot of problems."

After working at Harvard, Tufts University, Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health, Ioannidis set up a base at the University of Ioannina in Greece. His team began producing a series of papers that pointed out specific ways certain studies were getting misleading results. In 2005 he published a paper which shook the foundations of medical research in the journal PLoS Medicine.

In the paper, Ioannidis laid out a detailed mathematical proof that (assuming modest levels of researcher bias, typically imperfect research techniques, and the tendency to focus on exciting rather than plausible theories) researchers will come up with wrong findings most of the time. His model, based on the rates in which studies had been overturned, predicted that 80 percent of non-randomized studies (by far the most common type), 25 percent of so-called gold-standard randomized trials, and as much as 10 percent of the platinum-standard large randomized trials turned out to be wrong.

The paper detailed how researchers were frequently manipulating data analyses and chasing career-advancing findings rather than good science, and even using the peer-review process to suppress opposing views. "The studies were biased," said Ioannidis. "Sometimes they were overtly biased. Sometimes it was difficult to see the bias, but it was there. At every step in the process, there is room to distort results, a way to make a stronger claim or to select what is going to be concluded. There is an intellectual conflict of interest that pressures researchers to find whatever it is that is most likely to get them funded."

Ioannidis noted that, in addition to the factors which doomed nutritional studies, drug studies had the additional corruptive force of financial conflict of interest – much to the detriment of doctors and patients. "Doctors need to rely on instinct and judgment to make choices," he said. "But these choices should be as informed as possible by the evidence," said Ioannidis.

He also noted that, "I'm not sure that more than a very small percentage of medical research is ever likely to lead to major improvements in clinical outcomes and quality of life".

In a study just published in the American Journal of Hypertension, food scientists at Florida State University found that consumption of six grams of L-citrulline extract from watermelon extract for six weeks normalized the blood pressure of all nine adults in the study who previously had elevated blood pressure.

"We are the first to document improved aortic hemodynamics in pre-hypertensive but otherwise healthy middle-aged men and women receiving therapeutic doses of watermelon," said Dr. Arturo Figueroa, lead researcher of the new study. "These findings suggest that this 'functional food' has a vasodilatory effect, and one that may prevent prehypertension from progressing to full-blown hypertension, a major risk factor for heart attacks and strokes," added Figueroa

The large watermelon fruit is the richest edible source of the amino acid L-citrulline, which regulates healthy blood pressure. L-citrulline is converted to another amino acid, L-arginine, once in the body. However, taking L-arginine as a dietary supplement can cause nausea, gastrointestinal problems and diarrhea, especially among adults who already suffer from raised blood pressure.

"Individuals with increased blood pressure and arterial stiffness – especially those who are older and those with chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes – would benefit from L-citrulline in either the synthetic or natural (watermelon) form," Figueroa said.

Helping lower and control blood pressure is just one of many health benefits for the large summertime favorite. Watermelons have the highest water content of any fruit and, in addition to being a supreme thirst quencher, are excellent sources of several vitamins: vitamin A, an antioxidant which helps maintain eye health; vitamin C, which strengthens immunity, heals wounds, prevents cell damage, and promotes healthy teeth and gums; and vitamin B6, which helps brain function and helps convert protein to energy.

Tomatoes have been highly advertised as a great source for lycopene, a powerful antioxidant that helps fight heart disease and several types of cancer, especially prostate cancer. Watermelon, however, has the highest concentrations of lycopene of any fresh fruit or vegetable.

Watermelons also have plenty of thiamine, magnesium, and potassium which are all vital for optimal health. Thus if your children, or perhaps yourself, are reluctant to dig into spinach, other dark green leafy vegetables or lima beans on a regular basis, servings of watermelon would be a very healthy substitute – and would make a healthy addition at any rate.

Watermelons help muscle and nerve function and help maintain the body's proper electrolyte and acid-base balance. They also reduce the risk of colon cancer, asthma, heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Watermelons are also excellent for kidney health as it can both flush the kidneys and dissolve kidney stones. One of the most popular and effective natural remedies for kidney stones is a tea made from watermelon seeds, though often the juice alone in plentiful quantities will do the trick.

A good one way to cleanse both the colon and the kidneys is to go an entire day consuming nothing but watermelon. Besides flushing the kidneys it will also usually clean out the colon as well – so well, in fact, that a good piece of advice is to not stray too far from available toilet facilities from about mid-afternoon on when doing a watermelon flush.