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Drink up! Dialysis patients get pomegranate juice By Jack Khoury Dialysis patients in the Western Galilee Hospital-Nahariya will soon receive pomegranate juice with their meals, as part of an experiment to check the juice's contribution to their health. The hospital's hemodialysis unit, which treats 180 patients, decided to embark on the year-long experiment after preliminary studies indicated that food additives such as pomegranate juice have a beneficial effect. Advertisement Pomegranate juice can improve health and reduce infections, heart disease and blood vessel problems, which are common among dialysis patients, said hemodialysis unit director Professor Batya Kristal. The experiment is working on the assumption that medical and dietetic treatments complement each other, she said. The dialysis unit will be the first in Israel to give its patients pomegranate juice throughout their treatment, for a one-year study. If the study finds that the juice significantly boosts patients' health, it will become a routine part of nationwide treatment, doctors said. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Baptism by fire Bradley Burston offers 10 Mideast traps for Barack Obama to avoid. A second life 'Exodus' passenger makes aliyah six decades after being turned away.

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