The Healthy New York City Pumpkin: Decorative and Nutritious

Name: Rosenberg Wellness Center
Address: USA

October 03, 2023

The pumpkin. Ornate. Recognizable. Valued from its being anti-anxiety to anti-viral and a lot in between! Rosenberg Wellness Center presents just how nutritious and beneficial the Cucurbita maxima, the formal name of the pumpkin, is, a vegetable whose flesh, seed, peel, flower, and leaves all deliver nutrients our New York City chiropractic patients can take make good use of. High levels of minerals, flavonoids, carotenes, phenols, and total antioxidant activity are plentiful 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 our New York City chiropractic patients want to reconsider 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 decorative value 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 now being appreciated. (2) Pumpkin seed extracts were found to be safe and to offer significant anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties nearly akin to aspirin and brufen/ibuprofen. (3) In the lineage 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 highest number of flavonoids. Peel extracts are not cytotoxic or aggravating to the skin, making them possibly valuable for cosmetic product use. (6) The pumpkin’s value runs more than skin deep.

PREVENTIVE OF NIGHT BLINDNESS IN CHILDREN AND EVEN ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION

What about facilitating the prevention of childhood night blindness said to be an issue around the world? Fortifying yogurt with β-carotene (vitamin A) via pumpkin (and pumpkin pie spice and ground pumpkin seed) was showen to be a nutrient-rich food with the low-cost advantage of potentially stopping or decreasing childhood blindness. The pumpkin rendered it even more appetizing! (7) The pumpkin seed that they ground up for the yogurt may also reduce 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 helpful sources. (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 New York City chiropractic appointment soon. No matter the back pain condition, that brought you to our office, enjoy your pretty pumpkin and figure out a way to repurpose it for your health benefit!

New York City chiropractic nutrition info on the pumpkin

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