Relieve your aches and pains by eating this tart fruit
If you are suffering from joint pain due to arthritis, adding this sweet and sometimes tart fruit to your diet could help relieve your suffering.
Arthritis can be more than an inconvenience for people who suffer from this condition- it can cause persistent joint pain that worsens with movement, or sometimes even at rest. Instead of reaching for a pain reliever to soothe your aches, why not try munching on a bowl of cherries instead?
There are more than a thousand varieties of cherries around the world, varying in degrees of sweetness, and all of them have health-boosting properties.
The benefits of sweet cherries
The Bing cherry is the most popular kind of sweet cherry in the United States, and the good news is, these plump juicy fruits may help reduce painful inflammation due to arthritis.
A study focusing on gout wanted to determine if eating a bowl of the fruit for breakfast would have any effect on the subjects. Gout attacks take place when uric acid accumulates in joints and cause pain. Urate in the blood is a precursor to these painful uric acid crystals. As it turns out, eating the cherries decreased urate levels significantly.
Another study indicates that sweet red Bing cherries are able to reduce inflammation without the damage to the stomach lining caused by NSAID drugs usually taken by those who suffer from joint pain.
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Tart cherries have their perks too
If sour cherries are more your thing, they can be just as beneficial for pain brought about by inflammation. Research quoted by The Washington Post says that tart Montmorency cherries, in particular, contain antioxidants and have anti-inflammatory properties.
Athletes who drank tart cherry juice twice a day before a race were found to have their pain reduced equivalent to the effect of 800 milligrams of ibuprofen.
Pain relief is not the only thing going for this sweet treat. This fruit is also packed with vitamin C, fiber, and even melatonin, which can help those who have problems falling asleep.
With all this goodness, it seems that life could indeed be a bowl of cherries, with a bowl of cherries.