Plant ‘factories’ producing lettuces in little more than a fortnight, are springing up all over the developed world.
This month it was revealed that the Ozu Corporation in Japan is the latest conglomerate to diversify into ‘hydroponic’ horticulture techniques, where vegetables are grown in a sort of super-nutrient soup, instead of traditional soil. They are brought to maturity in sterile, indoor, temperature-controlled conditions, and sold with a guarantee of no contamination by any bugs or bacteria.
Hydroponic growing systems are also widely used in the production of tomatoes, but many fear that these high-tech, high-speed growing methods reduce the nutrient content of vegetables.
The British Tomato Growers Association has pointed out that lycopene, the key beneficial ingredient of the health-giving ‘Mediterranean’ diet is only found in optimum concentrations in outdoor sun-ripened tomatoes.
Lycopene is known to reduce the breakdown, or oxidation of harmful fats in the blood, known as low-density lipoproteins. It is this breakdown process which leads to the build up of harmful sticky deposits on arterial walls, in an ultimately fatal process called atherosclerosis. Now scientists have discovered a more efficient way of delivering lycopene to the human body in a treatment called Ateronon.
Ateronon, also known as the tomato pill, is a lycopene formulation which mixes the compound with natural proteins from milk and soya, increasing its ‘bioavailability’ – or capacity for absorption by the human body.
Studies of Ateronon have shown that it can reduce rates of fat oxidation to almost zero in as little as two months which will dramatically reduce the risk of life threatening illnesses such as heart disease and stroke.
Because Ateronon is a food not a pharmaceutical product, it is entirely safe and has been launched direct to the public http://www.ateronon.co.uk.
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