HEALTH BENEFITS OF THE POMEGRANATE: Accoring to General Knowledge, one of the most amazing studies on pomegranate juice's cardiovascular disease REVERSING properties was revealed in a human clinical study out of Israel nine years ago. Study participants experienced up to a 30% reverse in the carotid artery's intima media thickness, essentially unblocking that artery, whereas the control group gained 9% increased thickness --- almost a 40% reversal in the disease process!