Delmon’s Image Management Needs as Much Work as his Plate Discipline
I don’t like talking about steroids any more than the next guy, but there’s a certain climate right now, regarding performance enhancing drugs. You really want to keep them at arm’s length. This wouldn’t be the best time to, say, get yourself linked to an absurdly sketchy drug. Right?
Someone needs to tell Delmon that now is not the best time for this. And what the hell is Quercetin?
And … wouldn’t this mysterious drug company want to connect themselves to a player who could, you know, hit or run?
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from Wikipedia: Quercetin is a flavonoid, specifically a flavonol, and is used as a nutritional supplement to prevent cancer and other diseases.
High dietary intake is associated with reduction in cancer, and scientists suspect flavenoids may be responsible. Research shows that flavanoids influence cellular mechanisms in vitro and in animal studies, and there is limited evidence from human population studies
Foods rich in quercetin include capers (1800mg/kg)[2], lovage (1700mg/kg), apples (440mg/kg), tea (Camellia sinensis), onion, especially red onion (higher concentrations of quercetin occur in the outermost rings[3]), red grapes, citrus fruit, tomato, broccoli and other leafy green vegetables, and a number of berries including cherry, raspberry, bog whortleberry (158 mg/kg, fresh weight), lingonberry (cultivated 74mg/kg, wild 146 mg/kg), cranberry (cultivated 83 mg/kg, wild 121 mg/kg), chokeberry (89 mg/kg), sweet rowan (85 mg/kg), rowanberry (63 mg/kg), sea buckthorn berry (62 mg/kg), crowberry (cultivated 53mg/kg, wild 56 mg/kg),[4] and the fruit of the prickly pear cactus. A recent study found that organically grown tomatoes had 79% more quercetin than “conventionally grown”.
So he might actually be pitching something good. I might actually try that junk :)
Thanks for the info.
Still seems like a pretty sleazy ad. But the main substance doesn’t sound like a bad thing.