 Subject:主題：香蕉的神奇
香蕉的神奇
香蕉含有三種天然糖份：蔗糖、果糖和葡萄糖；再加上纖維質。香蕉可即時提升人的功能。 研究顯示，兩條香蕉，可以提供足夠能量維持 90 分鐘劇烈的運動。難怪很多世界知名的運動員都以香蕉為首選生果。但是，香蕉不單隻提供能量。香蕉還可以幫我們克服或治療好多病症和身體狀況，使我們必需把香蕉加進每天的餐單。
(1) 抑鬱症： 最近一項調查發現，患抑鬱症的人，在吃過香蕉後，感覺好好多。因為香蕉含胺基酸，會轉化成血清促進素，令人鬆馳、提升情緒。
(2) 貧血： 香蕉鐵質含量高，能刺激血液內的血色素。
(3) 血壓高： 香蕉含極高量的鉀，但鹽份低，最理想是降血壓。最近，美國食品及藥物管理局宣佈，允許香蕉業宣傳香蕉能降低血壓高和中風機會。
(4) 腦力： 在英國 Twickenha 就有 200 名學生，為了要提升腦力，幫助考試，在學期開始，於早餐、小休和午飯，都吃適量香蕉。研究顯示，含豐富鉀質的香蕉，能提高學生的專注力，對他們讀書有所幫助。
(5) 便泌： 香蕉的纖維質很高，可幫助回覆腸胃正常活動，消除便泌，無需服用輕瀉劑。
(6) 宿醉： 香蕉奶色加蜜糖可以即時解酒。香蕉鬆馳胃部，蜜糖提升血糖水平，奶抒緩精神和製做炭水化合物。
(7) 心絞痛： 香蕉對身體有一種天然的制酸性，有鎮痛作用。 早上無精打彩。早餐後午飯前，吃少量香蕉可保持血糖水平。
(8) 蚊釘蟲咬﹕ 用香蕉皮內部輕擦患處，可退腫消炎。
(9) 緊張： 香蕉的維生素 B含量高，可幫助抒緩神經系統。
(10) 超重： 澳地利心理學學校研究發現，工作壓力大，使員工會不斷進食巧力克和薯片去抒緩情緒。研究員對 5000名醫院的病人做研究，發體型肥胖的，通常都是司職壓力非常大的工作。研究總結認為，要避免引起對抒緩情緒食物的欲念，就應該約每兩小時吃一點高炭水化合物的食物，以降低身體內的血糖水平。
(11) 胃潰瘍： 香蕉是調理腸胃失調的食方，因為香蕉有著柔軟的纖維而且柔滑。對於長期患者來說，香蕉是唯一可以進食的未煮熟食物，而不會有不良反應。香蕉還可以中和胃酸和減少疼痛。
(12) 體溫控制： 在不同國家、地區和文化中，都有把香蕉作為一種「降溫」的果物，可以用作降低身、心的熱度。在泰國，孕婦為了使嬰兒出生時有較為涼快的環境，臨盤時就會吃香蕉。
(13) 戒菸： 香蕉可以幫助戒菸。香蕉含維生素 B6 和 B12 ，也含鉀和鎂，可以複元戒菸者因為沒有了尼古丁刺激的影響。
(14) 壓力： 香蕉所含的鉀，可以調節心跳使之正常化，從而將氧氣順利送到大腦，與及調節身體的水份。當受到壓力緊張時，我們的新陳代謝就會加快，因而使鉀的水平一降。鉀含量高的香蕉，正好作補充。
(15) 中風： 據著名醫學雜誌 "The New England Journal of Medicine" 的研究指出，長期吃香蕉，中風死亡的機會率大大降低 40% 。 香蕉的確可以治療許多疾病。如果跟蘋果比較，香蕉多四倍蛋白質、多兩倍碳水化合物、多三倍磷質、多五倍維生素 A 和鐵質、多兩倍其他維生素和礦物質。香蕉也含豐富的鉀，是最有益的食物。所以，應該把那句老句子改為：「一日一香蕉，醫生遠離我。」
(16) PS 猴子經常都情緒高漲和開心，應該是吃得多香蕉的原因。還有，想皮鞋潔亮如新？嘗試用香蕉皮的裡面，直接擦到皮鞋，然後用乾布擦淨，效果立見。真神奇的生果！
(17) 香蕉緩解眼睛干澀避免其過早衰老 在電腦前工作的人常常會覺得眼睛干澀或紅腫、疼痛，如果每天吃一根香蕉，就能起到一定的緩解作用。這是台灣番薯藤健康網站的一篇文章日前告訴讀者的。 文章中指出，香蕉保護眼睛的功能首先和其中含量豐富的鉀有關。人體攝入鹽份過多，會導致細胞中存留大量的水分，引起眼睛紅腫。香蕉中的鉀可以幫助人體排出這些多余的鹽分，讓身體達到鉀鈉平衡，緩解眼睛的不適症狀。 此外，香蕉中含有大量的 胡蘿卜素。當人體缺乏這種物質時，眼睛就會變得疼痛、干澀、眼珠無光、失水少神，多吃香蕉不僅可減輕這些症狀，還可在一定程度上緩解眼睛疲勞，避免其過早衰老 ! The Amazing Bananas What makes monkeys happy and shines shoes? After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again. 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.
(1) 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.
(2) PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
(3) Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
(4) Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect t o 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.
(5) 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.
(6) Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
(7) 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, buil ds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
(8) Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try e ating a banana for soothing relief.
(9) Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
(10) 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.
(11) Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
(12) Overweight? 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 foo d cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
(13) 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.
(14) 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.
(15) Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
(16) 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.
(17) 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.
(18) 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%!
(19) 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 a n 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!"
Special Treatment for Bananas Bananas are always picked when they are green. They do not need any special care to ripen. They go from green to yellow in a few days. The brown speckles on bananas are called "honey spots." When a banana has honey spots, it is very sweet and ready to eat. Bananas can be stored in the refrigerator after they ripen too. The skin will turn dark brown or black but the banana inside will be fresh.
PASS IT ON TO YOUR FRIENDS PS: 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. |
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