Eat a Banana!

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Bananas... This is very interesting.
After Reading THIS, you'll NEVER look at a banana in the same way again -

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.

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

Anemia:
High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of haemoglobin 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 aTwickenham (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.

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.

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.

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.

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%!

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!"

PS :
Bananas must be the reason why monkeys are so happy & Healthy all the time!




Most people are completely unaware of this fact but there is a fruit that is eaten by millions of
people all around the world everyday that is quite remarkable and in all reality, simply shouldn’t
exist. I’m talking of course, about the banana. Bananas are actually the most mysterious fruit in
the world because bananas have no seeds and what makes this even more mysterious is the fact
that they are found in almost every country in the world.


Now that may not sound so odd at first but let me fully explain this enigma to you:
Firstly, banana plants are not trees; they are actually a perennial herb. The trunk of the plant is
really nothing more than the plants outer leaves. The real stem of the plant doesn’t actually
become visible until it pushes out through the top to produce the large purple flower that will
eventually develop into the fruit. Then, having finished its perennial reproductive cycle, the plant
dies. The problem here, is that in the reproductive cycle of the banana, seeds are completely
absent from the mature fruit! A new ‘seedling’ (known as a ‘sucker’) can only ever be generated
from a piece of the plants rootstock and yet bananas are found in almost most every place on
earth, even on quite remote and isolated islands.


How in the world did they all get there?

The seeds certainly weren’t carried across the oceans by prevailing winds. To fully appreciate
this anomaly first consider that the only other seedless plants that exist anywhere in the world are
things like seedless grapes, naval oranges and the many genetically modified varieties of
commercial vegetables that can now be purchased, the point is, any other seedless plants that
exist, anywhere in the world, are all that way because they have genetically modified!
And yet here we have the humble banana, which is also the only food in existence that contains
exactly the correct requirements of vitamins and minerals for mans metabolism completely. It is
the only food that man can live on healthily, by itself, with complete nutrition, it is found all over
the world and yet we have no knowledge of how it could possibly have come into being.
It seemshighly improbable that the worldwide distribution of a seedless fruit that is perfectly tailored for
sustaining man would have just somehow ‘happened.’


It is extremely unlikely for such a plant to have ever been produced by nature all on its own
and many people believe that somehow, somewhere, sometime, someone in our far distant past
genetically engineered bananas into the widely dispersed and remarkably nutritious plant that we
find everywhere in such abundance to day.


These people cite that bananas are living daily proof of an ancient culture that spanned the
entire globe in remote pre-history. Botanists also now tentatively agree that the spread of the
banana plant appears to have radiated outward from the Pacific region.
The Banana plant incidentally, is not actually a fruit or a vegetable, but it does reach a height of
around 30 feet at maturity which makes it the Worlds largest herb and the tallest plant in
existence that does not have a woody trunk.
 
Banana's are also the one food you should be cautious of if your on medication
for high blood preasure. Some medicines have the side effect of boosting your
potasium levels. Banana's are high in potasium.
 
That's very interesting, especially the part about Seasonal Affective Disorder. I suffer badly from that every winter, seems to be getting worse the older I get. I love bananas, just don't seem to eat them very often, will be chowing on more of them this winter for sure now.
Thanks.. Tom:thumbsup:
 
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Funny as it mentions it helps with heart burn. Thats the reason I dont eat bananas as it gives me heart burn.
 
Funny as it mentions it helps with heart burn. Thats the reason I dont eat bananas as it gives me heart burn.

I've heard other folks say that bananas, or even stuff with bananas cooked in it (banana bread), will give them heartburn. Doesn't bother me, but some apparently it does.
 
interesting read! my wife and i eat them every morning with 2 eggs for b-fast. good to know i am on the right path. :thumbsup:
 
Great info on Bananas . I love em and so does everyone here in my home .



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:wtf: does this mean or have to do with the price of bananas in china ?
 
That's very interesting, especially the part about Seasonal Affective Disorder. I suffer badly from that every winter, seems to be getting worse the older I get.
Vitamin d 5000 iu in the winter will take care of seasonal affective disorder. Research Purity Products's study on vitamin d..
 
That's very interesting, especially the part about Seasonal Affective Disorder. I suffer badly from that every winter, seems to be getting worse the older I get.
Vitamin d 5000 iu in the winter will take care of seasonal affective disorder. Research Purity Products's study on vitamin d..

Thanks. I'll look into the Vitamin D supplement too.
It gets a little worrisome sometimes.
 
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