Tomato Juice gives you energy
IDO not like tomato juice. I could never understand why one would put vodka in it to make a Bloody Mary. I have seen many people drink tomato juice or in some poor examples to the rest of us, several Blood Marys, to start a day after a long night out, but I could not see how they got energy from that. It seems that I was wrong all this time...
Investigators at Tokyo Medical and Dental University published research in Hypertriglyc- eridemia that stated, “Tomato-based food products have health-promoting and disease-preventing effects. Some tomato juice ingredients may have health benefits for middle-aged women, including women with menopausal symptoms and cardiovascular diseases.”
In the study they investigated the net effect of tomato juice intake on several health parameters in women between 40 and 60 years old who had at least one menopausal symptom. The participants refrained from foods and drinks rich in tomato and tomato-based products for two weeks prior to the study and during the eight weeks of tomato juice consumption. After the run-in period, the women were asked to consume 200 ml of unsalted tomato juice, twice daily for eight weeks. Their menopausal symptoms were evaluated before the study, and at four and eight weeks after study commencement. At the same times, body composition; blood pressure; heart rate; resting energy expenditures and serum levels of triglyceride, cholesterol, glucose, and haemoglobin were measured. The research concluded, “Tomato juice intake alleviated menopausal symptoms, including anxiety, increased resting energy expenditures and heart rate, and lowered high baseline serum triglyceride levels in middle-aged wo- men.”
Tomatoes are full of nutrients including vitamin C and importantly, carotenoids, a special family of molecules that are considered to be super anti-oxidants because of their cancer fighting abilities. These carotenoids are concentrated in the skin of the tomato, so it is important to drink a juice made from fresh tomatoes, skin and all...