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Banana for your energy and mood meter

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Banana has a lot of advantage for your health; To this day, banana is known for promoting healthy digestion and creating a feeling of youthfulness. Bananas are not only a good source of B vitamins they also contain vitamin C, A and high levels of potassium. Research has proved 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. Banana can also reduce your pain while you have your period. And these are some other benefits of what banana can give to you:

Increasing your energy

Banana has three natural sugars (sucrose, fructose, glucose), these natural sugars can provide energy for our body. While we perform certain activities, we burn calories, by eating banana we can get energy supply for our bodies.

Increasing mood while you have your period

Banana contains several vitamins; one of them is vitamin B6. This vitamin can help your body arranging sugar in your blood, normalizing your mood while you have your period.

Prevent Anemia

Banana contains a lot of substances such as iron, with this substance, body can stimulating blood to produce hemoglobin and help body preventing anemia.

Reducing high blood pressure

This tropical fruits, contains a lot of potassium, A metallic element that is important in body functions such as regulation of blood pressure and of water content in cells, transmission of nerve impulses, digestion, muscle contraction, and heartbeat.. That’s why banana can defeat high tension and stroke.

Increasing brain activities

According to an experiment in Twickenham, England, a person who eats banana on breakfast, coffee break, and lunch, indicates that his/her brain activities are increasing.

Reduce depression

While you feel depression you should eat banana, because banana contains tryptophan; An amino acid and the precursor to the neurotransmitter serotonin. Serotonin is a brain chemical (neurotransmitter) that helps to regulate your mood. A lack of it may lead to depression.

Make stomach comfortable

When you feel heartburn (painful, burning feeling in the chest caused by stomach acid flowing back into the esophagus), then eat banana, because banana have natural antacid and it can Neutralizes the acid produced by the stomach

Remove mosquito bites

If you go for camping, and you don’t have anti bug’s lotions, you can use banana skin. Banana skin works almost the same like anti bug’s lotions; it can erase the mark and the itchy on your skin.

Reduce nervous

Every time you feel nervous, eat fresh banana. With high B vitamins, banana can help you down and keep you calm, because high carbohydrates in banana can stabilize sugar in the blood.

Helps diet program

Banana has smooth texture and slipper, makes banana easy to absorb. That makes banana good to consume for people who have intestines disease. Banana also good for neutralize stomach acid, that’s why while you are diet you better not forget to eat banana.

Avoid Wart

Are you confused how to get away your wart? Well maybe banana can helps you. Put banana skin, use the inside of the skin then cover your wart with it. Let it there for the whole night and does it over and over again, until your wart disappear.

Well then, banana has a lot of advantages. Compare to apple, banana has four time higher protein, two time higher carbohydrate, three time higher phosphorus, five time higher vitamin A, iron substance, and other mineral. You may prepare banana every day in your house, so you can eat it every time. Be healthy by eating one banana every day.

banana photo by Chris Sá

1 Response to “Banana for your energy and mood meter”

  1. LauraM

    on February 27 2008

    Yeah! then I have to start eating more bananas I heard that eating bananas help you grow more and gives you a little more of a butt. I don’t know about that one but I like bananas

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