Grapes are one of leading the foods that contains antioxidants. It has healing properties that protect you heart, help prevent cancer, gives you glowing skin and hair and speeds up wound healing.

Grapes have been used for centuries for health and beauty. People in Egypt have been eating them for over 6,000 years. European healers have even created an ointment using the sap of grape wines to cure skin and eye ailments.

Grape leaves have been used to stop bleeding, reduce inflammation and pain. They have also been used to treat cancer, cholera, small pox and a host of other diseases. They were brought to America in the 1600's.

Grape seed oil is a popular supplement that is gaining much popularity in the alternative healing community because it contains concentrations of Vitamin E flavornoids and linoleic acids.

Grapes help compound free radicals, which are highly reactive molecules that can damage cell functions, such as the pollution and the sun.

Grape seed oil is also used to combat conditions of the heart, such as hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and poor circulation.

They are also used in the treatment of hearing and vision problems. It can help slow down macular degeneration and speed up wound after injury or surgery. And let me also add,  it can help regulate liver and lung functions. It is normally taken in capsule or tablet form.

Table grapes in berry or wine form are just as beneficial for you. Grapes contain high quantities of quality fiber, B and C vitamins as well as minerals from the soil they are grown in.

Red grapes contain high quantities of proanthocyanidins, which protect the heart. But remember this buyers, non organic grapes are heavily sprayed with pesticides. especially grapes imported from other countries. It's important you know this and go with organic ones whenever possible.

Not only are grapes great for healing all the other things we mentioned, they are great for wound healing. What is really interesting is how they learned that grapes had this capability.

It seems that it all started with a study of tree bark, of all things. It turns out that treating wounds with bark from maritime pine trees is a popular folk remedy in France.

When the researchers looked into the chemistry of this pine bark they found it was rich in proanthocynanidins, the key chemical described in the study. Then they looked through the chemical literature for more convenient source of proanthocynanidins, and found grape seeds.

The study was rather different because it was the first time a natural substance had been shown to have such a positive impact on wound healing.

Here we see how free radicals actually serve a positive function. They stimulate the growth of blood vessels and skin during healing. In addition they kill harmful viruses and bacteria.

It was found the wounds don't heal as well if you squelch the process of forming free radicals. This doesn't diminish the negative impact free radicals may have elsewhere in the body. It does, however, show that they serve an important purpose in some situations and shouldn't be eliminated completely.

As for why these chemicals act differently in wounds than in the rest of the body, it seems the presence of other free radicals in wounds actually changes the properties of the proanthocyanindins themselves.

In other words, when they are surrounded by lots of free radicals, proanthocynanindins join them instead of trying to beat them. The advantage is that they last much longer than the free radicals made by the body, which explains why they are so effective.

Isn't it amazing that nature provides us with so many things in the universe that have so much  benefit in solving our health problems?

I've known that for a long time in my research on the Internet and various other sources in the last 4 ½ years. But you don't hear much about it in the local press or on national TV.

You know why? Big Pharma would soon be out of business if the word got out any more than it does now. They have many ways of blocking a lot of that information.

Most people don't realize how much they are being brainwashed by their claims and our government supports them every day. Shame on them!

Sonny Julius