Banana - gives more than you think Sometimes when dieters hears about the word banana, some would have popped their eyes out and say, "ew! You are going to get fat with all those sugar in it!"; and some, embrases it and worship it as the ultimate diet fruit. Super models can't go about their daily work without it. But what can it provide to help gout patients? Banana (Musa)family Musaceae. The humble banana, one of the cheapest fruit available in the Asian region, is a fruit that can be found all year long. |
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Though it looked simple, yet it contents are not. Banana contains a great number of nutrition value such as protein, tissue building elements, vitamins and minerals. Besides providing a natural approach of energy boosting without isotonic drinks, it also helps to overcome many health problems such as anemia, and even for gout and arthritist.
| Properties of Banana (100gm) Calories: 116 | |||
| Food Value | Minerals and Vitamins | ||
| Moisture | 70.1% | Calcium | 85 mg |
| Protein | 1.2% | Phosphorus | 50 mg |
| Fat | 0.3% | Iron | 0.6 mg |
| Minerals | 0.8% | Vitamin C Small amounts of Vitamin B Complex |
8 mg |
| Fibre | 0.4% | ||
| Carbohydrates | 7.2% | ||
| Total: | 100% | ||
Banana to improve health
With the almost balance diet in a banana. It provides a faster way
not only to satisfy ones hunger and needs of nutrients, it also keep
the calories low that the body will eventually work more of its fat
repository. Comparing to a normal bowl of rice or noodle, it might not
even have such a balance nutrients provided.
Below are a list of what banana can help to improve ones health with certain complications.
Overcoming Constipation and Diarrhoea
Banana are of great value in constipation and diarrhea as they
normalize colonic functions in the large intestine to absorb
large amounts of water for proper bowel moments. Their usefulness
in constipation is due to their richness in pectin, which is
water-absorbent and this gives them a bulk producing ability.
They also possess the ability to change the bacteria in the
intestines - from the harmful type of bacilli to the beneficial
acidophilus bacilli.
The potassium inside banana works as balancing the water in the body, by counteracting the sodium in the body, favouring the elimination of excess liquids. This has helped illness such as gout and arthritis complications. Some doctors even recommend a diet of bananas for 3 - 4 days during special arthritis and gout treatment. Some patient even underwent strict banana diet up till 8 - 9 bananas a day.
Overcoming Dysentery
To overcome dysentery, mash some banana (beat it until creamy) with a
little bit of salt could help ease acute and chronic dysentery.
Improving Anemia conditions
The iron content in banana is benificial for anemia patients as they help
to stimulate the production of hemogoblin in the blood.
Allergy complications
Banana is very useful for those who are suffering allergy and those who
are suffering from skin-rashes or digestive disorder or asthma due to
allerty. Unlike other protein foods, many of which contain an amino-acid
which these persons cannot tolerate and which causes allergy. Bananas
contain only benign amino-acids which in most cases are not allergic.
The fruit, however, does cause allergic reactions in certain sensitive
persons and they should avoid it.
Kidney Disorders
Bananas are valuable in kidney disorder because of their low protein and
salt content and high carbohydrate content. They are useful in uremia,
a toxic condition of the blood due to kidney congestion and dysfunction.
In such cases, a diet of bananas should only be taken for three to four
days, consuming eight to nine bananas a day. This diet is suitable for
all kidney troubles, including nephritis.
Urinary Disorders
It is understood that the juice from the Banana stem is a well-known
remedy for urinary disorders. It improves the functional efficiency
of kidney and liver thereby alleviating the discomforts and diseased
condition in them. It clears the excretionory organs in the abdominal
region of toxins and helps to eliminate them in the form of urine. It
has been found to be of great help in the treatment for the removal of
stones in the kidney, gall bladder, and prostate. It is advisable to
mix this juice whenever possible with the juice of ash pumpkin.
Overcoming Menstrual Disorders
Cooked banana flower eaten with curd is considered an effective medicine
for menstrual disorders like painful menstruation and excessive bleeding.
Banana flower helps increase progestrone hormone which reduces the bleeding.
Over - weight
A diet consisting of bananas and skimmed milk is considered an effective
remedy for weight reduction. In prescribed course of diet treatment, the
daily diet is restricted to six bananas and four glasses of skimmed milk
or buttermilk made from skimmed milk for a period of 10 to 15 days.
Thereafter green vegetables may be introduced gradually, reducing the
intake of bananas from six to four. This regimen or prescribed course of
diet treatment can be continued till the desired results are achieved.
Bananas are suitable for overweight people as they contain practically no
sodium.
Burns and Wounds
A plaster is prepared by beating a ripe banana into a fine paste. It can be
spread over burns and wounds and supported by a cloth bandage. It gives
immediate relief. The young tender leaves of banana tree form a cool dressing
for inflammations and blisters.
Personal Note:
Though the banana has so many useful remedies to help the day to day complications
and illness faced by many, however there are some percaution notes that needs
to pay attention to.
Precautions:
Banana, though taken as a table fruit, it is adviced that it must be thoroughly ripe
as otherwise it may be difficult to digest. Especially for those who have gastric
complications. The raw bananas contain 20 to 25 per cent starch. But during the
process of ripening, this starch is almost wholly converted with assimilable sugar.
Dieters should look into this.
Bananas should never be kept in a refrigerator as low temperature prevents their
ripening. The fruit should not be taken by those who are suffering from kidney
failure because of its high potassium content.
information was extracted from indiangyan.com, botanical-online.com and asianonlinerecipes.com
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