Healty and quality live with spinach

December 14, 2009 · Posted in Food medicine 

bayemPopeye cartoon character who has extra powers after eating spinach to show children that spinach is efficacious for the human body. Other efficacy spinach could actually reduce the risk of diabetes.
Researchers from Australia and China recently concluded that folic acid content in spinach could protect the heart muscle from the increased levels of glucose that causes diabetes.

Folic acid or folate is soluble substance and vitamin B9. Vitamin supplements are usually to be for women who are pregnant to protect babies from defects in the nerve.
The team of researchers from Australia and China conducted an experiment on mice affected by diabetes, and found that elements of folic acid can reduce the risk of heart attack than those mice.

“The results of this discovery is an exciting discovery, because we have long not been able find out how to minimize the risk of diabetes that can lead to death,” said Lead researcher Charles Sturt University Lexin Wang.

Diabetes is the highest cause of death in the world.
Lexin Wang added that further research should be done primarily on men to reduce the risk of death.

One of spinach type is Red amaranth spinach In Moluccas, or well known as Chinese spinach.
These plants come from tropical America.

Ingredients and Properties
This plant contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, potassium, iron, amarantin, routine, purine and vitamins (A, B and C). In general, these plants can increase the work the kidneys and aid digestion. Red spinach roots has efficacy as a cure for dysentery.

In addition, spinach can be used to help launch the process of defecation because quite a lot of fiber content. Fibrous foods such as spinach, both for patients with colon cancer, diabetes, high cholesterol and to lose weight. Red Spinach uses include:

Increasing the kidneys and Cleanup Work After Maternity Blood
If you want to increase the work the kidneys, the blood after birth then consume the spinach in the form of clear vegetable.

Anemia
Wash the spinach leaves three red cell, mashed until smooth, add 1 tablespoon lemon juice, then strain. Then add 1 tablespoon of honey and chicken egg, stirring until smooth. Drink this mixture once a day for 1 week. Further treatment can be done 2x a week until the disease cured.

Dysentery
Wash the roots of 10 stems of red spinach thoroughly, then mash until smooth. Add salt tip of a teaspoon finely and mix well, then strain. Drink filtered water at once.

Strengthen hair roots
Wash a bunch of fresh spinach, and mashed until smooth. Add the tip of a teaspoon of salt, stirring rate, then squeeze and strain. Then drink once, do it this way 2-3 times a week.

There are two things to note:
First, for people with blood uric acid levels are high enough and rheumatic gout in forbidden to consume too much spinach. Spinach contains a fairly high purine. Meanwhile, the body becomes memetabolisir purine uric acid. Second, if for treatment, red amaranth is considered more nutritious than green spinach.

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