{"id":4316,"date":"2011-12-11T08:47:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T13:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2011-12-11T08:47:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T13:47:29","slug":"watermelon-keeps-cholesterol-in-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/12\/11\/watermelon-keeps-cholesterol-in-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Keeps Cholesterol in Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/eating-watermelong-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"200163937-001\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/eating-watermelong-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/eating-watermelong.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The summertime favorite fruit may be out of season, but that hasn\u2019t stopped a research team from the University of Kentucky from releasing promising results that have linked watermelon juice with healthy cholesterol levels. <\/p>\n<p>The USDA-funded research investigated the effects of daily watermelon juice consumption in an animal having elevated cholesterol. <\/p>\n<p>They discovered that watermelon juice significantly lowered levels of \u201cbad\u201d LDL cholesterol and helped improve the health of the animal\u2019s arteries. <\/p>\n<p>The scientists note that watermelon\u2019s high levels of lycopene \u2013the antioxidant found in tomatoes\u2014is likely responsible for its cholesterol-lowering benefits. <\/p>\n<p>More healthy ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/01\/16\/cholesterol-guide\/\">reduce cholesterol without drugs<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summertime favorite fruit may be out of season, but that hasn\u2019t stopped a research team from the University of Kentucky from releasing promising results that have linked watermelon juice with healthy cholesterol levels. The USDA-funded research investigated the effects of daily watermelon juice consumption in an animal having elevated cholesterol. They discovered that watermelon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-cholesterol"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}