Saturday, November 24, 2012

THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF DATES

Date palms contain many health benefits for the human body and includes the following:
1. Consuming 100 grams of date fruit can lower blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting the absorption of fat or cholesterol

2. Potassium helps the heart to work on a regular basis, activates muscle contraction and helps regulate blood pressure, and this is very good for helping people with hypertension because of the contraction and relaxation of blood vessels with a good work that is not easily broken

3. Glucose as a type of simple sugar found in the body, and fructose sugars found in most fruits and both sugars are not harmful to health because of the natural processed in the body, and fructose is easily digested and processed in the body to produce energy

4. Vitamin A and Niacin assist in forming and maintaining the skin to stay healthy

5. Riboflavin and Niacin helps process food into energy needed to perform various activities

6. High tannin content of dates works medicinally as cleaning agents in the body

7. Thiamine in dates help release energy from carbohydrates and also important for nerve cells, while niacin maintain normal nerve function

8. Potuchin in date-fruit makes contractions in blood vessels, in the uterus and muscles of the uterus, thus preventing bleeding if given to women who had given birth.

9. Salicylate in dates serves to reduce and relieves pain or fever, and it is as anti-inflammatory and anti pain and prevents blood clotting.

10. Consume dates on a regular basis e.g. a few dates every day can calm nerve cells through its influence on thyroid psychological condition that makes someone a better.

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