Lemon juice helps flush out unwanted materials. It encourages the liver to produce bile which is an acid that required for digestion. Efficient digestion reduces heartburn and constipation. Upon rising in the morning, drink the juice of 1 lemon in a cup of warm water. It helps in reducing obesity. Lemons are high in pectin fiber, which helps fight hunger cravings. It also has been shown that people who maintain a more alkaline diet lose weight faster.
Asthma is relieved by taking a half-spoonfdul of lemon-juice before each meal and upon retiring.
Lemon juice taken 3-4 times daily along with garlic cures cough and cold. Drinking lemon juice daily helps to alleviate rheumatic fever, painful joints, lumbago and sciatica.
Hesperidin is also, with eriocitrin, the most important flavonoid in lemon juice. Dietary flavonoids may help to supplement the body antioxidant defenses against free radicals. These compounds´ possible beneficial effects are due to their antioxidant activity, which is related to the prevention of atherosclerosis and cancer.
Flavonoids scavenge peroxyl radicals, alkyl peroxyl radicals, superoxide hydroxyl radicals, and peroxynitrite in aqueous and organic environments.
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