By Drink Nopalea New Zealand

11/09/2011 Nopalea A powerful antioxidant super-fruit drink for today's unhealthy world
For thousands of years, the people of the Sonoran Desert have tapped into the healing properties of the Nopal cactus and, now, this antioxidant-rich super-fruit is available in Nopalea. Each 946 ml (32 oz.) bottle of Nopalea contains carefully harvested Nopal fruit, in a proprietary blend delivering powerful antioxidants.

The power of Nopal cactus
Nopalea (Nō-pah lay' uh) blends antioxidant-rich Nopal cactus super-fruit with naturally sweet Agave nectar to bring you a deliciously unique concentrated wellness drink.

The purity of premium fruit
Nopalea uses only the freshest Nopal cactus fruit and preserves its antioxidant potency in our state-of-the-art facility. We carefully harvest the fruit using sustainable wildcrafting techniques that have been practised in the Sonoran Desert for thousands of years.

The strength of antioxidants
Nopalea is a natural, low-calorie concentrated wellness drink, full of antioxidants.

Normal inflammation is beneficial
Whenever your body is subject to threatening elements or events, it may counter these attacks with one of its defence mechanisms - inflammation. This is normal.

The threats that could trigger the body's inflammatory response could be little things, such as an injury like a pulled muscle. Or, the threat could be a bacterial intrusion. Stressful feelings and events can also trigger inflammation to flare up in any number of your body's tissues. And, nutritionally deficient diets can lead to inflammatory flare-ups.

Finally, one of the biggest causes of inflammation could be today's world, which can expose your body to an overwhelming flood of micro-sized dangers, such as toxins, pollutants, bacteria, viruses and chemicals from ... the air you breathe ... the water you drink ... the foods you eat ... and even the things you touch.

Chronic inflammation can be serious
Due to all of the causes of inflammation, it's quite possible that your own body has many sites that are inflamed. This isn't the problem, though. The problem is all of the sites in your body where, for a variety of reasons, your inflammation isn't being turned off. Instead, the inflammation just keeps going and going. This is chronic inflammation. There are several factors that can keep your body from turning off its inflammation response, but three factors are especially prevalent:

Chronic Stress - it keeps your body constantly "revved up," wasting nutrient stores and impairing its ability to stop inflammation from becoming chronic
Chronic Nutritional Deficiencies - without the right nutrition, on a daily basis, your body may not have the right resources to put a halt to ongoing inflammation

Chronic Toxin Overload - in today's world, your body is often fighting off toxins, pollutants and contaminants from so many sources that it simply can be too overwhelmed to stop the inflammation

You'll notice that there's one thing in common with all three of the above factors: Chronic. When these adverse factors are chronic (constant), it greatly increases the chance that your body's inflammation will be chronic, too.