| Statistically the best way to stay healthy is eat well | | | | has a lot of nutrients. The sugar content of ripe dates |
| and exercise. A very number of deaths is attributed to | | | | is about 70-80%. There is a link between the regular |
| poor food choices and lack of exercise. When it | | | | consumption of dates a lower risk of heart disease |
| comes to choosing food too many of us eat | | | | and lower rate of cancer. The Medjool Date is a |
| processed foods heavy on fats, sugars, and | | | | dessert date in the United States and the Middle East. |
| preservatives. We cannot all eat well, because there is | | | | Other less sweet dates are also commonly eaten in |
| simply not enough food for all of us to eat healthy | | | | the middle east and considered bread dates. Dates |
| food. If suddenly everyone decided to eat a healthy | | | | also have cleansing characteristics and used the keep |
| diet consisting of no processed foods or refined | | | | the stomach regular. |
| sugars, there would literally not be enough food to go | | | | Bananas are often eaten because of the high |
| around. The reason we all eat a lot of junk food may | | | | potassium content, but they are actually not as high as |
| be due to the fact that there is just not enough healthy | | | | dates. Dates will likely gain more and more importance |
| food to go around. | | | | as the amount of quality farming land becomes less |
| Healthy foods are natural foods such as vegetables, | | | | available. This is because dates grow in very hot |
| fruits, whole grains, and low fat meats. When choosing | | | | areas with every dry climates or deserts. The Medjool |
| natural foods we also have many choices, some | | | | Date is not grown as much as other dates, because it |
| foods carry a lot of nutritional value others not so | | | | is dessert date, but it is grown in the United States in |
| much. Among the best natural foods are such fruits as | | | | the Southern Part of California where it is desert and |
| blueberries, guava, and medjool dates. Medjool dates | | | | also in Arizona. Often farmers want to start date |
| are not widely known in the United States and even if | | | | farms in coastal areas and while the date palm may |
| you have eaten Medjool dates you may not know | | | | be successful the production of dates will not be, |
| what you were eating. Medjool dates have actually | | | | because these are not typical palms. Date palms |
| been around for a long time. Date palms have been | | | | require dry conditions and also a lot of water. When |
| around for about 5,000 to 8,000 years. The dates | | | | there is insufficient water the production of dates |
| were and continue to be part of the staple diet of | | | | declines or none are produced and a lot of rain ruins |
| many persons through out the Middle East. There are | | | | the crop. In the few places where the medjool date is |
| many positive connections between the regular | | | | grown the dates wrapped to keep insects out and to |
| consumption of dates and absence of several | | | | protect it from the rain. Generally speaking medjool |
| illnesses. The Medjool Date is one of several power | | | | dates and all other dates are organic, because there is |
| foods, because of its very high content of complex | | | | no need for pesticides. The use of pesticides is rare in |
| carbohydrates, fiber, and potassium. The Medjool Date | | | | most date farms. |
| is an excellent dessert, because it is very sweet and it | | | | |