Have You Ever Seen A Square Watermelon

Posted: September 23rd, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

If you’re a waist watcher, or weight watcher, nothing could be
better for you than melons. And certainly no BBQ is really complete,
until somebody has broken out the watermelon.

When I was a kid, watermelon was a real treat. On weekends in the
neighborhood, big farm trucks would arrive, stacked to the top with
watermelons that came from the Carolinas, both North and South. The
South Carolina melons would arrive first, usually at the end of
July, and those from North Carolina would arrive in August.

The South Carolina melons were good and the North Carolina melons
were awesome. I can’t remember what they cost, but they were cheap
and we ate, until our stomachs were ready to bust. We spit seeds at
other and stained many a Tshirt and I think I remember some guys
wearing the empty hulls, as hats. Over the years, I discovered a
number of ways people ate them, with salt, with pepper, with hot
sauce, but as kids we didn’t need a thing, except a big slab.

These days, I like my watermelon cold, sometimes with salt, and I
even use a knife and fork. But every now and then, I get the urge to
just put my face in it and chow down.

I wouldn’t have thought of it, back in my youth, but as it turns
out, melons are top notch health food, containing lots of good
stuff. High on the list is folate, a B vitamin critical to lowering
birth defects and heart disease. Then, there’s potassium, essential
for keeping blood pressure at healthy levels.

And then…they’re low in calories and fat, making them great diet
food.

Melons also provide fiber and most people don’t get enough fiber in
their daily diet. When your body is low in fiber, you are at a
higher risk for cancer and other digestive problems. Fiber, in this
case soluble fiber, helps keep the colon healthy, by speeding up the
elimination process.

While watermelon is my personal favorite, the healthiest melon is
the honeydew. Ounce for ounce, honeydew has three times more folate
and two times more potassium than watermelon. The reason is the very
high water content, which dilutes the nutrients in watermelon.

Oh..about those square watermelons. It seems the Japanese have a
monopoly on this. Because watermelons take up a lot of space, the
Japanese actually grow them in a box, which makes them square and
thus, easier to stack in warehouses and stores. (That will never
sell here!)

The next time you have a craving for something sweet, have some
melon instead of cheesecake, or Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, which has
100 calories per ounce. And don’t lie, nobody eats just a sliver of
cheesecake, or Ben and Jerry’s.

If you do succumb to the cheesecake, or Cherry Garcia, take an extra
soft gel of my Powerhouse Omega Formula, which will help move it out
of your system faster:

https://www.favoriteformulas.com?awt_l=GnZNU&awt_m=1b23aZjpmYz2rW

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

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