Flossie, they are packed full of wonderful, juicy seeds. You can find them in the market usually starting in September and through January.

Most people I've met that aren't from the southwest, don't know about them. I even had to show one man how to eat them! When I check out at the grocery store, a lot of the clerks don't know what they are.

Kings have been known to have them in their tombs so they've been around for a long time.

While they are in season, my fingernails remain stained from opening them.

I've noticed that when I drink a lot of diet soda at work, I can't think. Its almost as if a huge stationery cloud centers in my mind and lingers there for hours.

I've been drinking low carb Monster drinks for energy then and they do seem to help, but then my heart flutters.

Coffee doesn't keep me as alert as the Monster drinks.

Water doesn't do it either and juice is loaded with carbs....any suggestions??

LOVE the POM juice but don't care for fighting to eat the fruit. It's funny what we think is expensive. POM juice is $2.43 at Wally World, that's less than the price of a beer at a bar and far less than fast food.

I drink a lot of POM & tangerine juice, milk, water and home made gatorade. Two cups of coffee in the a.m. and sometimes a beer or couple of glasses of wine in the p.m. I keep water in the car and drink 2 to 4 bottles every time I'm in the car.

Funny...I like guacamole but not avocados.

Number5 I think Monster juices are loaded with caffeine and or sigar thats probably why the fluttering, not good!!! Maybe you could try sugar free kool-aid, it comes in many flavors or Crystal Light. You really have to watch the sugar content and caffeine in most of the so called health drinks....I like water with fresh lemon squeezed into the bottle especially in summer time.

First -- disclaimer -- I enroll customers in a wellness company called Melaleuca which has environmentally-friendly cleaning products, Nicole Miller make-up, vitamins and other things.

The thing with the juices is that they do help vitamins get to your bloodstream faster. Your cells like sugar. By combining the vitamin with fructose (the sugar in fruit), the juice gives you energy. However, the mark-up on the juice from manufacturer to purchaser is extremely high.

We do the same trick with vitamins, combining the fructose and vitamin in a vitamin pill.

Yes, fresh fruit is best, pure fruit juice is next best to get the great things you need from juice. And if you aren't buying organic fruit, wash, wash, wash! Pomegranites are fun!

Bottled water is, unfortunately, becoming a problem. There are too many plastic bottles being created and thrown in the environment. There's the gas used to truck the water. I've switched to a hard plastic bottle that I fill with filtered tap water.

If anyone wants to learn more about Melaleuca (no sales pressure -- just information LOL!), send me a private email.

Goji berries are good for you. Dole has partnered with a company [forget their name, saw them at the trade show] and they are selling them together.

I got some from my sea buckthorn oil supplier and she said the Chinese soak them and make a sort of gruel out of them, [mush], or soak them in water and drink the water and eat the berries. They are pretty dry, and not as squishy as raisens.

I have some soaking as a rumtopf in a cookie jar, with capt morgan spiced rum, along with craisens and raisens. Lemme tell ya. eat two and your buzzin....lol and now the booze is like a syrup. and VERY good for me.

Juice yourself. Get a good juicer and juice carrots and celery in the summer. Celery has sodium and will help regulate your body temp so you don't get so hot so quickly in the summer. Might help with hot flashes. I'm going to juice tomorrow and will let you know.

Big thing on juice is you have to drink it within 10 minutes optimum, 30 ok, to get full benefits.

Janine