The efficacy and role of corn
1, weight loss
Eating can eliminate the obese people's hunger, but eating contains very low calories, is also one of the substitutes for weight loss.
2, anti-cancer
Plant fiber can accelerate the discharge of carcinogens and other toxins, eat more corn can also inhibit the side effects of anti-cancer drugs on the human body.
3, lower blood pressure and blood lipids
Rich calcium can play a role in lowering blood pressure, promote cell division, reduce serum cholesterol, and to prevent its deposition in the blood vessel wall, therefore, corn on coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia and hypertension have a certain preventive and therapeutic effects. Central American Indians are not easy to suffer from hypertension and they mainly eat corn related.
4, increase memory, anti-aging
Stimulate brain cells, enhance the human brain, memory and human metabolism, adjust the function of the nervous system. Can play a role in making the skin tender and smooth, inhibit and delay the wrinkles produce effect, can fight against eye aging.
5, eyesight
People who often use their eyes, should eat more yellow corn, to relieve macular degeneration, vision loss, lutein and zeaxanthin by virtue of its powerful antioxidant effect, can absorb the harmful rays of light that enter the eye.
6, promote gastrointestinal motility
Can prevent and control constipation, enteritis, intestinal cancer.
Nutritional value of corn
1, vitamin content is very high
Corn in the vitamin content is very high, for rice, wheat, 5 to 10 times, and the nutritional value of special corn is higher than ordinary corn.
2, rich in plant cellulose
Corn contains rich plant cellulose has stimulate gastrointestinal motility, accelerate fecal excretion characteristics, can prevent and control constipation, enteritis, intestinal cancer. Can bind and impede the absorption of excess glucose, play a role in inhibiting the rise in blood sugar after meals; cellulose can also inhibit fat absorption, reduce blood lipid levels, prevent and improve the occurrence of coronary heart disease, obesity, gallstones.
3, rich in selenium and magnesium
Corn contains selenium and magnesium have anti-cancer effects, selenium can accelerate the decomposition of peroxides in the body, so that the malignant tumors do not get the supply of molecular oxygen and inhibited. Magnesium on the one hand can also inhibit the development of cancer cells, on the other hand, can promote the body's waste discharge, which is also important for cancer prevention.
4, containing glutathione
Corn also contains a longevity factor - glutathione, which is involved in selenium, the generation of glutathione oxidase, with the restoration of youth, slow aging function.
5, containing zeaxanthin
Corn contains zeaxanthin, can prevent the generation of age-related macular degeneration. According to the study done by Harvard Medical School and many research centers in 1994, a higher intake of zeaxanthin can reduce the chance of age-related macular degeneration.
6, rich in carotenoids and niacin
Carotenoids contained in corn, absorbed by the body can be converted into vitamin A; corn also contains niacin, the content is much higher than rice. Niacin plays an important role in the metabolism of proteins, fats and sugars, and can help us maintain the normal function of the nervous system, digestive system and skin. A lack of niacin in the body may cause mental symptoms such as hallucinations, hallucinations, and insanity, digestive symptoms such as stomatitis, lingual inflammation, and diarrhea, as well as skin mange.
7, rich in linoleic acid
Corn is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, especially linoleic acid content of up to 60% or more, linoleic acid can reduce cholesterol, preventing its deposition on the inner wall of blood vessels, thereby reducing the occurrence of atherosclerosis, the prevention of hypertension, cardiovascular disease has a positive effect.