Watermelon is Excellent for Your Health and a Great Fruit to Add to Your RUN/WALK PROGRAM!

It's Benefits!

Watermelon strengthens the function of your stomach and the spleen and is a good diuretic because it provides citrulline an amino acid that helps make more amino acid in our body, hence helping our kidneys to function better by relieving the body of its toxins! . Since it provides a rich source of vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamins B6 and B1, magnesium, thiamin, and potassium and water to name a few, it is a fruit that ranks more valuable than any other fruit or vegetable on the planet. The flesh of the fruit contains the highest amount of antitoxin called lycopene availbable in any type of fruit! This valuable fruit when digested travels through the body and attacks disease forming free radicals in our body.

Why Watermelon is good for YOU the RUNNER!

Especially in the summer there is a good chance that you perspire a lot when you run, watermelon is rich in electrolytes sodium and potassium that we lose when we sweat. This valuable fruit is thirst quenching and tasty! It contains about 90% water and is good at replenishing fluid lost when hydration is an issue. It can be blended or juiced from cut up chunks and even used with the seeds, and the white and green parts of the rind!

Watermelon is much safer to eat or drink than energy drinks because it doesn't have any added ingredients that interrupt your thirst and health. Your body knows what to do with this fruit, because it's natural!

Since summer is here you will find an abundance of this fruit and you can't beat it's benefits. It will produce excellent energy for your running and re-hydrate you after!

Enjoy!

For Your Best Health,

Gill