Bananas are rich in potassium, which lowers blood pressure and protects the inner wall of the arteries, and contain a large number of compounds such as angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, which have the effect of controlling blood pressure.
Bananas contain a substance that can help the human brain produce serotonin, which can make people's mood become happy, reduce pain and depression, so it is known as "happy food".
Bananas also have a slippery bowel and antidiarrheal effect.
Animal experiments suggest that bananas can enhance the body's immunity, so that the tumor shrinks, and the more ripe bananas, the more black spots on the epidermis of the immune activity is higher.
Banana therapeutic new efficacy
In recent years, scientific research has found that the banana on the cardiovascular, digestive system, and a variety of common diseases have a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect.
High blood pressure patients tend to have more sodium and less potassium in the body, and bananas are rich in potassium ions. Potassium ions have the role of inhibiting sodium ions compress blood vessels and damage cardiovascular. Eating bananas can maintain the body's potassium-sodium balance and acid-base balance, so that the neuromuscular remain normal, the heart muscle contraction coordination.
High serum cholesterol can cause coronary heart disease, but the stalk of the banana has the effect of lowering cholesterol. Serum cholesterol is too high, available banana fruit stalk 50 grams, washed and sliced, with boiling water to drink, drink 10-20 days, can reduce cholesterol. Of course, the amount of banana fruit stalks can not be too large, otherwise it will cause diarrhea.
Banana peels contain banana peel pigment, which can inhibit fungi and bacteria. Using banana peels to treat itchy skin and foot odor caused by fungi or bacteria is effective. Patients can select fresh banana peel in the itchy skin repeated rubbing, or banana peel decoction water washing, for several days, can be effective.
Patients suffering from gastrointestinal ulcers, eat some bananas can protect the gastric mucosa, reduce the occurrence of gastric ulcers. Because bananas contain a chemical substance that can prevent gastric ulcers, it can stimulate the growth and reproduction of gastric mucosal cells.
Bananas contain a substance that can help the human brain to produce 5-hydroxytryptophan, which makes one's mood become happy and relaxed. Melancholia patients, usually eat more bananas, can make the brain 5-hydroxytryptamine concentration increases, thus reducing the hormone that causes low mood, so that pessimism and despair, misanthropy and irritability gradually disappear.
Also it can be used as a mask to act! (external)
Banana beauty anti-dry
How can we continue to keep the skin hydrated and transparent in the fall? It doesn't really take much, just a banana.
Banana Cream Ingredients: 1 banana, 2 spoons of milk, 3 spoons of strong tea
Practice: 1, first of all, the banana mashed. 2, respectively, add the milk and strong tea. 3, slowly blend the mixture to paste.
Use: Clean your face with water, then put the banana paste on your face and wash it off with warm water after 15 minutes.
Tips: 1. Strong tea should be used only after it has cooled down. 2, cream instead of milk works better. 3, want to save more time, available blender to stir the banana.
Banana Mask Material: 1 banana, 3 spoons of olive oil
Practice: 1, first of all, mash the banana into half a paste. 2, add olive oil. 3, stir the two into a paste.
Use: Apply the banana paste on the face, avoiding around the eyes and lips, and wash off with warm water after 15 minutes.
Reminder: 1, with peach instead of banana, can also moisturize dry skin. 2, because the banana peeling will oxidize and black, nutrients will be lost, so the production of masks should not be too long
Not eat bananas on an empty stomach
Experts say, bananas are rich in sugar and fiber, good for digestion and laxative effect. But eating bananas on an empty stomach is not conducive to health, because on an empty stomach, there is almost no digestible food in the stomach and intestines, at this time, if you eat bananas, will accelerate the movement of the stomach and intestines, promote blood circulation, increase the heart load, easy to lead to myocardial infarction. Experts remind, do not eat bananas on an empty stomach, generally should choose to eat bananas after meals or not hungry state is safer. Recently, in the foreign music industry has risen to eat a banana wind, the actors will eat bananas before the show to "pressure" to play a calming effect, to avoid the performance of stage fright. Bananas are rich in soluble fiber, can help digestion, regulating the stomach, so often used as a treatment for constipation "good medicine", but it really can play a role in relieving stress?
Eating bananas can treat depression
Singaporean dietitian Pauline Tan said that eating bananas before the show "shock" has a certain reason. Because, bananas contain tryptophan and rich in vitamin B6, they are an important component of the synthesis of serotonin, which has an analgesic, hypnotic, tranquilizing effect. Therefore, eating bananas can indeed reduce tension and relieve stress. Studies have concluded that the lack of tryptophan is the basis for affective psychiatric disorders and can contribute to the tendency to develop a depressive constitution. Tryptophan in bananas, on the other hand, can make people happy, thus playing a role in the prevention and treatment of depression.
Two bananas a day can lower blood pressure
Regularly eating bananas, but also to enable the body to maintain electrolyte balance and acid-base metabolic balance, so that neuromuscular excitability to maintain the norm, myocardial contraction and diastolic function is coordinated, and play a role in maintaining blood pressure stabilization and prevention of vascular disease.
Bananas are high in potassium and rich in magnesium. Potassium can maintain normal blood pressure and heartbeat, to prevent blood pressure and muscle spasms; and magnesium has the effect of eliminating fatigue, people will be nervous and lack of magnesium has a certain relationship. Therefore, eating more bananas can lower blood pressure and prevent hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Research shows that eating two bananas a day can effectively reduce blood pressure.
A report by the Japanese Cancer Society in 2003 also proved that bananas have the effect of improving immunity and preventing cancer. The report said that eating two bananas a day can effectively improve physical fitness.
In addition, bananas are very low in calories and do not gain weight when eaten regularly, making them very effective for weight loss.
Don't eat bananas if you have kidney disease
From a nutritional point of view, bananas are starchy fruits, and from a Chinese medicine point of view, bananas are sweet and cold in nature, which can clear away heat and moisten the intestines, and promote intestinal peristalsis, but those who are weak in the spleen should avoid eating them; according to the principle of "the hot one is cold," it's the most suitable for people who have dryness in the body, such as those who have hemorrhoidal bleeding. The most important thing to remember is that it is a good choice for people who are suffering from dryness and heat in their body, such as those suffering from bleeding hemorrhoids.
Singapore Li Jinlong herbalist said: "Banana cold and warm two, to choose to eat bananas, you must know what you belong to the constitution. Body cold people, should choose warm bananas, such as Indian small bananas, do not eat the nature of the more cold Philippine bananas". In addition, bananas contain more sodium, suffering from acute nephritis, chronic nephritis and renal insufficiency can not eat. Kidney disease patients often eat bananas, equal to the intake of excessive sodium, will aggravate the burden on the kidneys.
If it is eaten before the meal to pad the stomach, bananas contain a lot of magnesium, such as eating a lot of bananas on an empty stomach, will make the blood magnesium suddenly rise, resulting in the proportion of magnesium and calcium within the human body's blood is out of proportion, the cardiovascular inhibition, is not conducive to health ~ 1 hour after the meal to eat the fruits are also OK, if you eat immediately after the meal, the fruit stays in the stomach for a long time will make the vitamin loss.