Bananas help
you reach your weight-loss goals, keep your bowels healthy, provide nutrients
that regulate heart rhythm and have vitamin compounds for eye health. Keep a
bunch of bananas on your desk at work and replenish your stock each week.
You’ll be more likely to reach for a healthy banana – instead of heading to the
vending machine – if you have a bunch sitting in front of you.
Bananas are
known for their high potassium content, with over 400 mg potassium in a single
medium-size banana. According to Colorado State
University Extension, potassium
is necessary for good nerve and muscle function as well as for maintaining a
healthy balance of fluids in the body.The potassium in bananas can help
prevent muscle cramps after exercise.
Cardohydrates
Your body
uses carbohydrates as a primary source of energy. Eat a banana after a workout
to refuel. A banana with breakfast will start your day off right and will give
you the energy to make it through to lunch without snacking.
Hormal
heart function
Having a
banana at breakfast every day adds a nutrient to your body to support normal
heart function. Bananas are rich in a mineral electrolyte called potassium.
When potassium enters your body, it absorbs directly into your bloodstream
through intestinal walls. Potassium travels around to cells all over your body
and dissolves in fluid inside of cells. It travels across cell membranes if
needed to keep fluid balanced in and around cells. This process keeps
electricity flowing throughout your system, which is required to make your
heart beat. In cases of severe potassium deficiency, your heart rhythm may
become irregular, which can be deadly. According to the Linus Pauling
Institute, you need 4,700 milligrams of potassium on a daily basis. Bananas
provide more than 360 milligrams per 6-inch piece of fruit.
Helps
digestion
Bananas are
a great source of dietary fiber that most of us don’t get nearly enough of.
Fiber helps the food you eat move smoothly through the digestive tract and
improves elimination.
A couple of
bananas may be a healthier choice than laxatives to treat occasional
constipation.
Turning to
another important element of digestion, bananas are rich in
fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS for short thankfully). FOS is known as a prebiotic
since it feeds the important friendly bacteria in the digestive tract that help
us absorb nutrients more efficiently.
Bananas are
also known to help relieve the symptoms of heartburn. So once again, try
reaching for the natural cure with banana rather than antacids (though if this
page gets shared around too much the makers of Metamucil and Mylanta and not
going to be happy!).
Vitamin B6
Bananas are
particularly high in vitamin B6. This vitamin is important for creating
hemoglobin for healthy blood.
B6 is also
involved in maintaining proper blood sugar levels, synthesizing and breaking
down amino acids and producing antibodies for a stronger immune response in
your body.
Just one
banana has a full fifth of your recommended daily intake of vitamin B6. And
they taste much better than vitamin pills too!
source : healthywayoflife365