Melon, A Source Of Living Water

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Every summer I look forward to buying fresh melons from the roadside stands that seem to appear over night. The melons are fresh, ripe and delicious. Farmers cut fresh sections of melon so customers can test the sweet succulence of the delicious fruits for themselves. What better way to introduce the taste of the melon than to give it away. You know you'll buy one (or more) when you bite into the fresh fruit and relish the flavor.

Melons are a source of living water. They contain 90-95% water depending on the variety. The water from melons, as with that from all juicy fruits, must not be confused with tap water or even pure spring water. It is not passive, inert water that is a simple vehicle for salts and solutions, but living water that has been in intimate contact with the protoplasm of vegetable cells. The water in melons is biological water that has been involved in the thousands, perhaps millions of chemical reactions that take place within living plant cells. This could be why nothing quenches summer thirst like a slice of fresh melon. Moreover, nothing is as helpful to the kidneys as the plant serum that is the water in melons.

Melons contain less sugar (5.4%) than other fruits, virtually no fat and a respectable amount of proteins (0.95). However, above all, melons provide a well-balanced supply of vitamins and minerals. Most notable are vitamins C, B6, B1 and folates, but small amounts of the remaining vitamins, except B12, are present as well.

There are several advantages to eating fresh melons.
A. Melon consumption enriches the blood with mineral salts and vitamins and facilitates the filtering capacity of the kidneys. After eating melon, the kidneys are better able to effectively remove waste material and toxins produced through metabolic process.

B. Melons can help prevent early stage kidney failure, whose primary symptoms are fluid retention and scanty urine output.

C. Kidney stones and granules, particularly those that are uric in composition is helped through their remarkable alkalizing ability. Melons increase the solubility of the acidic salts that make up uric calculi and facilitate their dissolution and elimination.

D. Although melons are not urinary antiseptics, their alkalizing effect in the urine helps stop the proliferation of the coliform bacillis that cause urinary infections, which require an acidic medium to grow.

For those who complain that melon gives them indigestion try this; eat it before or between meals rather than after a meal as a dessert. You won't suffer from indigestion because the gastric juices won't puddle up in the stomach.

So enjoy Melon, A Source Of Living Water.

Steve and Kim

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