Are lemons healthy?
Lemons are extraordinarily healthy. We go on fasts twice a year drinking just a kind of lemon juice water with maple syrup and we get rid of so much swelling in our joints (my arthritis is SO much better with lemons) and stomach, our acid stomach and heartburn gets better. Here’s a bit of info from the World’s Healthies Foods website about lemons and limes. Like many of the fruits and vegetables featured on our website, lemons and limes contain unique flavonoid compounds that have antioxidant and anti-cancer properties. Of special interest in limes have been flavonoids called flavonol glycosides, including many kaempferol-related molecules. While these flavonoids have been shown to stop cell division in many cancer cell lines, they are perhaps most interesting for their antibiotic effects. In several villages in West Africa where cholera epidemics had occurred, the inclusion of lime juice during the main meal of the day was determined to have been protective against the contraction of
