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Joy Liebeskind <[log in to unmask]>
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I made jello mold with pomagranate juice.  Unflavored gelatin- use the
juice for the liquids. As It starts to set I add sour cream & crushed
pineapple. Makes a huge it around here!!   Joy
On Jul 1, 2005, at 7:10 PM, ken barber wrote:

> a little tart.
>
> --- Bobby Greer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I have too and they were awful as I reemeber.
>>
>> Bobby
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "ken barber" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 2:40 PM
>> Subject: Re: Emailing: Pomegranate Juice For Moms
>> May Help Babies Resist
>> Brain Injury
>>
>>
>>> you think it is that bad? i have eaten them.
>>>
>>> --- Bobby Greer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah, but who would drink the stuff?
>>>>
>>>> Bobby
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "ken barber" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 2:03 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Emailing: Pomegranate Juice For
>> Moms
>>>> May Help Babies Resist
>>>> Brain Injury
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> isn't this interesting?, a natural
>> preventative.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --- Meir Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The message is ready to be sent with the
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> http://www.sciencedaily.com/print.php?url=/releases/2005/07/
> 050701062536
>>>>>> .htm
>>>>>> Source: Washington University School of
>> Medicine
>>>>>> Date: 2005-07-01
>>>>>> URL:
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/07/050701062536.htm
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Pomegranate Juice For Moms May Help Babies
>>>> Resist
>>>>>> Brain Injury
>>>>>> St. Louis, June 28, 2005 -- Expectant
>> mothers at
>>>>>> risk of premature birth
>>>>>> may want to consider drinking pomegranate
>> juice
>>>> to
>>>>>> help their babies
>>>>>> resist brain injuries from low oxygen and
>>>> reduced
>>>>>> blood flow, a new
>>>>>> mouse study from Washington University
>> School of
>>>>>> Medicine in St. Louis
>>>>>> suggests.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In humans, decreased blood flow and oxygen
>> to
>>>> the
>>>>>> infant brain is linked
>>>>>> to premature birth and other irregularities
>>>> during
>>>>>> pregnancy, birth and
>>>>>> early development. The phenomenon, which is
>>>> called
>>>>>> hypoxia ischemia,
>>>>>> causes brain injury in approximately 2 of
>> every
>>>>>> 1,000 full-term human
>>>>>> births and in a very high percentage of
>> babies
>>>> born
>>>>>> before 34 weeks of
>>>>>> gestation. Hypoxic ischemic brain injury can
>>>> lead to
>>>>>> seizures, a
>>>>>> degenerative condition known as hypoxic
>> ischemic
>>>>>> encephalopathy, and
>>>>>> mobility impairments including cerebral
>> palsy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When scientists temporarily lowered brain
>> oxygen
>>>>>> levels and brain blood
>>>>>> flow in newborn mice whose mothers drank
>> water
>>>> mixed
>>>>>> with pomegranate
>>>>>> concentrate, their brain tissue loss was
>> reduced
>>>> by
>>>>>> 60 percent in
>>>>>> comparison to mice whose mothers drank sugar
>>>> water
>>>>>> or other fluids.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Hypoxic ischemic brain injury in newborns
>> is
>>>> very
>>>>>> difficult to treat,
>>>>>> and right now there's very little we can do
>> to
>>>> stop
>>>>>> or reverse its
>>>>>> consequences," explains senior author David
>>>>>> Holtzman, M.D., the Andrew
>>>>>> B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor and head
>> of
>>>> the
>>>>>> Department of
>>>>>> Neurology. "Most of our efforts focus on
>>>> stopping it
>>>>>> when it happens,
>>>>>> but if we could treat everyone who's at risk
>>>>>> preventively, we may be
>>>>>> able to reduce the impacts of these kinds of
>>>>>> injuries."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The study, which appears in the June issue
>> of
>>>>>> Pediatric Research, was
>>>>>> conducted in collaboration with POM
>> Wonderful, a
>>>>>> U.S. producer of
>>>>>> pomegranates and pomegranate juice, and
>>>> scientists
>>>>>> at the University of
>>>>>> California, Los Angeles. Lead author David
>>>> Loren,
>>>>>> M.D., formerly a
>>>>>> neonatal critical care fellow in the
>> Department
>>>> of
>>>>>> Pediatrics, performed
>>>>>> the research. He is now at the University of
>>>>>> Washington in Seattle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Holtzman's lab has been studying neonatal
>> brain
>>>>>> injury for more than a
>>>>>> decade by temporarily reducing oxygen levels
>> and
>>>>>> blood flow in the
>>>>>> brains of 7-day-old mouse and rat pups. The
>>>> model
>>>>>> produces brain
>>>>>> injuries similar to those seen in human
>> infants
>>>>>> injured by hypoxia
>>>>>> ischemia.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pomegranates contain very high
>> concentrations of
>>>>>> polyphenols, substances
>>>>>> also found in grapes, red wine, and berries
>> that
>>>>>> scientists have linked
>>>>>> to potential neuroprotective and anti-aging
>>>> effects.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Scientists gave pregnant female mice water
>> with
>>>>>> pomegranate juice, plain
>>>>>> water, sugar water or vitamin C water to
>> drink
>>>>>> during the last third of
>>>>>> pregnancy and while they suckled their pups
>> for
>>>>>> seven days after birth.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After performing the procedures that exposed
>>>> mouse
>>
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