Health Benefits of Sweetpotatoes.

Some nutritional benefits may be easier to achieve if you use steaming or boiling as your cooking methods. Sweet potatoes have many benefits into our bodies.

SOME OF THE BENEFITS INCLUDE:

 They are rich in vitamin B6.
It he lps reduce the chemical homocysteine in our bodies. Homocysteine has been linked with degenerative diseases, including heart attacks

  They are a good source of vitamin C.

  This vitamin plays an important role in bone and tooth formation, digestion and blood formation.  It helps accelerate wound healing, produces collagen which helps maintain skin’s youthful elasticity and is it helps us cope with stress.

   They are a good source of vitamin D.

This vitamin helps build healthy bones. It also plays an important role in our energy levels, moods and helps build healthy nerves, skin and teeth.

  They contain iron and support a healthy immune system.

Iron helps in production of the red and white blood cells, resistance to stress and metabolizing of protein.

  They help ward off cancer and protect against the effects of aging.

Their rich orange color indicates that they are high in carotenoids like beta carotene and other carotenoids which is the precursor to vitamin A in your body. Carotenoids help strengthen our eyesight and boost our immunity to diseases, they are powerful antioxidants that help ward off cancer and protect against the effects of aging. They ward off cancer like lung cancer and breast cancer.

Avocados are Beneficial to our Bodies.

Most people avoid avocados as they say that they contain a lot of fats and calories yet they don’t know that this fruit is one which can lower cholesterol in your body. Avocados contain an acid known as oleic acid which helps reduce cholesterol levels. High cholesterol is one of the risk in this generation because we all want to eat junk foods and fatty foods such as chips and bhajias which lead to heart diseases. When you at least eat an avocado, the oleic acid and its folate content help keep your heart healthy.

Did you know? For the expectant mothers, avocados can protect your unborn baby and your heart as well. A vitamin by the name folate will help reduce the risk of birth defects.

High consumption of avocados can also protect against eye diseases. This is because they contain lutein a carotenoid that works as an antioxidant.

Feeling hungry? Just eat an avocado or a half avocado. Why? It contains fibre which helps your body keep the digestive system running smoothly and the soluble fibre slows the breakdown of carbohydrates in your body helping you feel full for longer.

Avocados are very healthy and sweet  and they boost the flavor and texture of your meals.

For the ladies who have dry hair, you need to try out this. Smear some mashed up avocados on your hands and rub it all round your head that is the hair and the scalp and leave it for around fifteen minutes before shampooing and believe you me, your hair will be as smooth as a baby’s bottom.

Avocado is an amazing treatment that helps reduce wrinkles. Not only you can apply mashed avocados flesh to your skin but also when you eat it, it will help fight aging process from within. I know that everyone wants to keep their youthful good looks for as long as possible and eating avocados can help. The antioxidants in the fruit will help to detoxify your body and help to reduce the appearance of wrinkles.

What Bananas Can Do.

The consumption of bananas is very beneficial to your health rather than taking the junk foods which many people nowadays adore which they are not aware that they are killing themselves slowly? According to the medical researchers, bananas can prevent diseases such as cancer, asthma, blood pressure, they can improve heart health and they can also prevent memory loss and boost your moods.

Bananas contain vitamin C which helps to prevent the formation of free radicals that cause cancer. On the other hand, bananas being very rich in fiber prevent colorectal cancer which is the cancer that affects the colon or the rectum.

Taking one banana per day or especially feeding it to your young ones reduces the chances of them developing or having an asthmatic attack. Therefore, ONE BANANA A DAY KEEPS YOU AWAY FROM ASTHMA.

A banana having no sodium lowers the blood pressure and for the banana having 12% of potassium, it reduces the vasodilation effects which cause an increase in blood flow. Note that, a high potassium intake is associated with a 20% decreased risk of dying from all causes of BP.

The nutrients which are in the banana such as vitamin B6, manganese, vitamin C, potassium, fiber, copper and biotin all support heart health. Among all these nutrients, potassium is the best known nutrient that lowers the risk of death from heart diseases. High potassium intake also reduces the risk of stroke and reduction in the formation of kidney stones.

Bananas also contain an amino acid known as tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to promote relaxation and improve mood and also preserves ones memory. Hence they help you to feel happier.

Other roles that bananas can play is the treatment of diarrhea and can also prevent diabetes.

after a mosquito bite

Also, many people find that rubbing a mosquito bite with the skin helps reduce the irritation but do they know that, the inside of a banana skin can be used to calm an itchy mosquito bite? Through experience, to me this is very true and practical.

The inside of a banana skin can also be used to polish shoes. Please try this and believe you me it will work out very well.

Bananas have no fat, cholesterol or sodium and they provide quick but sustainable energy boost in a natural, nutritious and easily digestible form.