As a child, your mother or father might have told you to Eat your vegetables. There are many good reasons to do so. While food is necessary to stoke and run the engine that is your body, it is also a requirement for maintaining your body in good health. To throw another adage at you: We are what we eat.
Foods are healers of the body as well as maintainers of good health. Fruits and vegetables provide important nutrients to the body. They give vitamins, minerals and other trace elements required to make the body function in perfect health. They also provide fiber to ensure regularity. Eating certain plants can lower the levels of cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure. Some help work to prevent the risk of serious health issues such as stroke and cancer.
Home remedies depending upon food are the easiest to access. It is as easy as opening your refrigerator or your kitchen cabinets. The most common division of foods that heal is a simple one: fruits and vegetables.
Fruits
There are many common fruits that act in uncommon ways. Some properties are merely claims; others are backed up by research. Here are several familiar and less common fruits to consider adding to your diet to improve your health.
Apples
There are more than 300 varieties from which to choose. Besides vitamins and fiber, apples provide several types of healthy nutrients to help prevent such things as cancer and to reduce cholesterol levels. Apples combined with lemon and several herbs is good for helping oily skin conditions.
Apricots
This tiny and tart fruit provides fiber and beta-carotene to combat constipation, protect against some cancers and prevent cholesterol from harming your arteries.
Bananas
This fruit is high in potassium levels. It prevents high blood pressure, relieves recurrent heartburn and can control cholesterol levels. Bananas also help to heal ulcers and prevent stroke.
Berries
All berries strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and cranberries, have cancer-fighting capabilities. They are also good in defeating urinary tract infections. Strawberries are great at fighting against various inflammatory diseases such as arthritis. Raspberry tea is a great stomach soother.
Cherries
Cherries are a fruit that is high in fiber and very low in fat. They are rich in beta-carotene, vitamin C and vitamin E. These 3 substances pack a powerful punch against free radicals. A common folk remedy used cherries as a cure for gout. Sour cherries are the best variety in providing healing powers against cancer, cataracts and heart disease.
Citrus Fruits
Altogether, these fruits are among the highest in vitamin C. This type of fruit also contains 6 different flavanoids: narigin, hesperidin, nobilitin, tangeretin, sinensetin and quercetin. They are powerful proponents in the fight against cancer and diabetes-related eye disease. D-limonene is helpful in fighting off the formation of breast cancer tumors. The flavanoids help slow down the progression of heart disease and prevent blood clots that help trigger heart attacks.
Coconuts
Coconut oil soothes the gums. In fact, the oil of coconut is its most powerful form of health insurance. Coconuts and coconut oil are used for a wide variety of health issues including killing off viruses that cause everything from herpes to SARS and AIDS. The properties of the plant include antimicrobrial, antioxidant, antifungal and antibacterial. As a result, there are claims coconuts reduce inflammation, expel parasites, and destroy viral, bacterial and fungal infections of a wide scope including ulcers, throat infections and measles. It is also claimed to be an energy booster and a protector against osteoporosis and diabetes. It is definitely rich in various nutrients and other substances such as fiber, vitamins and minerals.
Figs
These delicacies from the Middle East do help prevent constipation and colon cancer. They also lower cholesterol. They are high in fiber, particularly when in dried form.
Grapefruit
Grapefruit is high in naringin flavenoids – This may be effective in slowing down the progression of heart disease. The pectin in grapefruit also seems to reduce only the bad form of cholesterol leaving the good type untouched. Must devour a lot to have the maximum effect, however.
Guava
Very high in vitamin C 300% of the recommended dosage and an effective way of decreasing triglyceride levels and lowering blood pressure
Kiwi
High in vitamin c and fiber, kiwis are responsible for controlling cholesterol levels, preventing breast cancer and lowering blood pressure.
Mangoes
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