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BANANAS
Bananas contain 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 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 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.
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 wor k 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 le vels 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 &Tobacco Use: 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. < BR>
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 En gland 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!"
P.S.: Bananas must be the reason monkeys are so happy all the time! I will add one here; want a quick shine on our shoes?? Take the INSIDE of the banana skin, and rub directly on the shoe...polish with dry cloth. Amazing fruit !
Read on:
BANANAS
Bananas contain 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 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 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.
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 wor k 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 le vels 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 &Tobacco Use: 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. < BR>
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 En gland 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!"
P.S.: Bananas must be the reason monkeys are so happy all the time! I will add one here; want a quick shine on our shoes?? Take the INSIDE of the banana skin, and rub directly on the shoe...polish with dry cloth. Amazing fruit !
Thanks for the info Jared. We just chewed out a single male adding a dose of negativity to the forums, and you just lightened it with the 411 on Banana's.. LOL. Didn't realize the ol "B" had so many wonderful properties. I'm going to bathe in banana's from now on..
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Just remember - not too hot.
Still?
I HATE bananas.
Mrs. just came in and told me to tell the story behind this...(sit down and make a sandwich all...I suggest you hide the children. This will not be pretty.)
My first X (heretofore referred to as X1) and I had just moved to Utah from Pennsylvania. It was a long move...4 days of driving and a wedding to finish planning. We unloaded most of our meager belongings into her mom's garage and forgot about it until a month or so later.
Fast forward to that fateful...HOT June day. I found a small Igloo cooler amongst our stuff and asked X1 what was in it. She simply shrugged and turned back to her rummage.
Thinking back now, I remember hearing a far off voice yelling "NOOOOOooooooooooo........!" I payed no attention to that voice. I will forever regret my stupidity in that moment.
I pressed the button on the side of the cooler and flipped the lid back.
A smell worse than death, sweater than rot *popped!* out of that Igloo portal to Hell. I was engulfed in something so foul that it overwhelmed me and forced me to my knees. In those moments I.fought.for.my.very.existence!
A clutch of rotten, liquid, HOT banana stuff was squatting at the bottom of that portal...I even remember it flipping me off. It slipped from my hands and fell to the concrete...it's contents oozed away and were never seen again.
Let this be a warning to all of you.
I not only lost my love of bananas that day...but my religion as well.
-K_T
I HATE bananas.
Mrs. just came in and told me to tell the story behind this...(sit down and make a sandwich all...I suggest you hide the children. This will not be pretty.)
My first X (heretofore referred to as X1) and I had just moved to Utah from Pennsylvania. It was a long move...4 days of driving and a wedding to finish planning. We unloaded most of our meager belongings into her mom's garage and forgot about it until a month or so later.
Fast forward to that fateful...HOT June day. I found a small Igloo cooler amongst our stuff and asked X1 what was in it. She simply shrugged and turned back to her rummage.
Thinking back now, I remember hearing a far off voice yelling "NOOOOOooooooooooo........!" I payed no attention to that voice. I will forever regret my stupidity in that moment.
I pressed the button on the side of the cooler and flipped the lid back.
A smell worse than death, sweater than rot *popped!* out of that Igloo portal to Hell. I was engulfed in something so foul that it overwhelmed me and forced me to my knees. In those moments I.fought.for.my.very.existence!
A clutch of rotten, liquid, HOT banana stuff was squatting at the bottom of that portal...I even remember it flipping me off. It slipped from my hands and fell to the concrete...it's contents oozed away and were never seen again.
Let this be a warning to all of you.
I not only lost my love of bananas that day...but my religion as well.
-K_T
LMAO...never considered the inside of a banana complete with peel as an alternative to...other "things"....!
Damn Jared... or should we say genius? thanks for all the info. We'll take that into account next time any of the above listed problems occur!
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We are hairless apes after all. I am anyway. Look at my fuckin nose. Can you say planet of the apes? Only a mudda could love such a face as this! That and I like to pick the lice out of my nad hair and eat it. That and I shit in my hand before I throw it in the toilet. At least I broke the habit at throwing it at the mailman.
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We are hairless apes after all. I am anyway. Look at my fuckin nose. Can you say planet of the apes? Only a mudda could love such a face as this! That and I like to pick the lice out of my nad hair and eat it. That and I shit in my hand before I throw it in the toilet. At least I broke the habit at throwing it at the mailman.
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OK....Don...You must have read "The Naked Ape" if not...Go find it...Amazon was the only place I could find a copy...It is not a long book, bbut it IS fascinating...
As to throwing it at the mailman...How'd you break that habit? I have been trying for years now...
As to throwing it at the mailman...How'd you break that habit? I have been trying for years now...
Thanks Siren!
(edit) Sorry Don, thought you were calling yourself "Muddha"!
-K_T
(edit) Sorry Don, thought you were calling yourself "Muddha"!
-K_T
Bothhands......I laughed sooo hard i thought i was going to tear something...
NOW thats the uncle every boy should have....still LMAO....:l
NOW thats the uncle every boy should have....still LMAO....:l