Bananas have many functions, such as preventing hypertension, quenching thirst, moistening the lungs and smoothing the intestines, and most importantly, bananas can improve human immunity. However, patients with obvious edema and need to ban salt should not eat more.
Banana food tastes cold, and people who are cold eat less. Now let's count the benefits of eating bananas.
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Eating bananas can prevent or treat hypertension.
Because bananas are rich in potassium, they can excrete too much sodium ions and lower blood pressure. Another ion that lowers blood pressure is calcium, so if you cut bananas into small pieces and mix them with calcium-rich milk in a blender, it will become the best antihypertensive juice.
Enhance immunity and prevent cancer.
Protein in bananas can stimulate T cell differentiation, enhance the anti-cancer immunity of human body, and be directly absorbed by gastrointestinal tract, unlike other protein, so it has more anti-cancer effect.
Bananas can prevent and relieve constipation.
Bananas contain a lot of fiber, which can stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase the volume of feces and help defecation. Chinese medicine reminds that bananas should not be eaten on an empty stomach.
Eating bananas before meals can help you lose weight.
Bananas are easy to fill the stomach. A banana is about half a bowl of rice, so many people regard it as a diet food. But when you lose weight, you should not only eat bananas, but also mix them with other low-calorie foods to avoid unbalanced nutrition and loss of health.
Bananas contain trace element boron.
Eating bananas when you are tired can quickly restore your physical strength. At the same time, banana contains 5- hydroxytryptamine, which can prevent gastric ulcer, so it can reduce the stimulation of gastric acid on gastric mucosa, and it is an ideal diet fruit for patients with gastric diseases.
Eating bananas can control blood pressure.
It is considered that potassium in banana has the function of lowering blood pressure and protecting the inner wall of artery, and contains a large number of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and other compounds, which has the function of controlling blood pressure.
Eating bananas can relieve depression.
Bananas contain substances that can help the human brain to produce serotonin, which can make people feel happy and relieve pain and depression. Bananas also have the function of moistening intestines and stopping diarrhea.