Bananas are good :D

Bananas. Containing three natural sugars – sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber, a banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world’s leading athletes. But energy isn’t the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.

Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.

Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it the perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit’s ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.

Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert. Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.

Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.

Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.

Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.

Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.

Mosquito Bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.

Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.

Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.

PMS: Forget the pills – eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.

Rose Bushes: Blend one skin (soft Part) with blender full of water and pour on base of Rose Bush. Promotes healthy roots and new growth.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer, tryptophan.

Smoking: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.

Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body’s water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.

Strokes: According to research in “The New England Journal of Medicine,” eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!

Temperature Control: Many other cultures see bananas as a “cooling” fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!

So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say,

“A banana a day keeps the doctor away!”

The compiler of this article is Dr. P. Bradley Carey, who posted it at the World Natural Health Organization in 2003. There are many copies of it on the internet, so this may not have been the real source. I haven’t been able to verify if all the stuff in the article is true, but it’s true that bananas have many vitamins and minerals anyway.

According to TruthOrFiction.Com:

As a natural fruit, the banana undoubtedly has nutritional advantages but whether this email outlines them accurately remains to be seen.

TruthOrfiction.com checked with one of the biggest distributors of bananas, the Chiquita Banana Company. A spokesperson told us that bananas are a wholesome, nutritious food and a good source of important vitamins, minerals, and macro nutrients including vitamin C, potassium, vitamin B6, and dietary fiber. He said that although he would like to say that everything in the eRumor is true, he is not able to and added that much of the email is based on assumption.

Many of the statements in the email are made without any substantiation.

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5 thoughts on “Bananas are good :D

  1. DENNIS,
    What you did is really appreciated.
    Too nice to see this here with some more .
    Such articles are caught by the eyes of
    only very few who search in other sites.
    If every one would adopt this method to
    bring GOOD ONES, a complete awareness
    may be created among the rest.

    I admit there are a few . . . . . saying
    “I know this already,
    I have seen this 2 years back there,
    This was copied from that site,
    My Great Great Great Grandpa had told me this
    when I was 2 months old, etc…”.

    Ignoring these let us do something as we know
    LIFE IS TO BE LIVED BETTER BY SERVING PEOPLE BETTER.

    I welcome YOU TO DO MORE and MORE(AS I DO THE SAME IN MOST).

  2. The Author of the above “Bananas are good” might not have given this article of his own. He might have viewed several sites relating to Bananas and their benefits, published by various researchers. Any abdrupt comment cannot be accepted. For anything, a specific proof is essential to validate the claim. So the author need not be ashamed, as the real ones are many researchers.

  3. I apologize for the abrupt nature of my comment. I was in a hurry, happened to stumble on this, and in my rush assumed that it was not a public comment–simply a heads-up to the site owner.

    However, as poor and out of date as much of the reference materials are (in spite of many decades of good research), for a doctor to state that bananas are a source of B12 is inexcusable. Even the poor, old medical reference materials usually state correctly that B12 is found only in foods of animal origin or supplemental B12 created by humans.

    Bananas are good. They are one of my favorite foods, but they are not a source of B12. People who rely on bananas for their B12 would be at severe risk over following years.

    Here is just one. Very few references state otherwise, and they do so in error.

    Quote:

    What foods provide vitamin B12?

    Vitamin B12 is naturally found in foods that come from animals, including fish, meat, poultry, eggs, milk, and milk products. Fortified breakfast cereals are a particularly valuable source of vitamin B12 for vegetarians [5-7]. Table 1 lists a variety of food sources of vitamin B12.”
    [a list of foods follows this statement on the webpage]
    Found at: http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitaminb12.asp
    NIH (National Institutes of Health, US Government

    American Family Physicians article on B12 deficiency and its importance:
    http://www.aafp.org/afp/20030301/979.html

    Rose Ann

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