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Surprising Benefits of Bananas
After reading this, you’ll never look at a banana in the same way again.
Bananas contain three natural sugars – sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.
Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world’s leading athletes.
But energy isn’t the only way a banana can help us keep fit.
Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers: One of the quickest
ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
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eh?
October 30, 2012 at 8:47 am
2 months ago u publishd an article about how mosquitos are attractd to smeone who has just eaten bananas and now this!
Barotse diaspora
October 30, 2012 at 8:47 am
Its fibre not fiber. Iwe editor,
Air Mukwai_
December 27, 2012 at 3:03 am
This is correct depending where you come from. Just like center-centre, colour-color, chemist-drug store.
Badger
October 30, 2012 at 10:55 am
@eh? i read that article too and i am just wondering..
Janet c
October 30, 2012 at 11:18 am
Bananas are also good and enjoyable for the ladies, especially those whose husbands have little crayons in their bombasas
savage rogue
October 30, 2012 at 11:28 am
my friend janet c do u mean usin the banana to do the bedroom issue?
Janet c
October 30, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Yes
CONFIRMED
October 31, 2012 at 12:16 am
Janet c, it looks like,it is from experience.be honest,your guy has a creyon?
Zemuntu
October 30, 2012 at 12:28 pm
@Janet C, awe kwena niwe chipena and what is unfortunate is that my wife has those initials of yours but the good part is she cant write this rubbish that you always write wemwana wambasela iwe.
Janet c
October 30, 2012 at 1:57 pm
@ Zemuntu – these blogs are anonymous, so maybe I am your wife – kekekeke!!!!
how
October 31, 2012 at 12:09 am
@ Janet c,WHY DO SOME WOMEN MARRY GUYS WITH SMALL MANHOOD?
shoko
October 30, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Janet C i wonder what can happen if the banana broke into two
Zemuntu
October 30, 2012 at 3:44 pm
@Janet C, i hope one day nkakulepaula so that ukambe ukutina ba guy. it seems you meet ba guy aba pa manda hill type yabena caristo abakwata choko. ukabutuko bwamba ku bedroom mambala
janet D
October 30, 2012 at 3:57 pm
@janet c ati bananas are good and enjoyable awe kwena waliyufwikisha its sad though ,i picture you as thee lady Diva type kanshi you bonk bananas sad.
BEMBA ✈✈✈BEMBA✈✈✈BEMBA
October 30, 2012 at 4:18 pm
I get sick (hurtburns) from eating bananas & avocados… that’s because I’m lactose intolerant and can’t digest the calcium in the banana.
BWALYA IWE
October 31, 2012 at 4:15 am
Ba Janet nabafula ba C naba D mailo kukaba ba E naba F Ba Janet C ni sad news zoona yaba banana fye banana no wamth no palsation napapa kwena mwe I would rather go for a warm chalk ir pencil size
BWALYA IWE
October 31, 2012 at 4:17 am
warm chalk or pencil not IR
G.t.n
October 31, 2012 at 7:57 am
kwena janet c walipena, I only hop its not the janet c I knw coz if it is, then shame on you
Kiyosaki
October 31, 2012 at 10:56 am
Bananas are for eating. Janet C you re very jovial indeed. But unfortunately fools will fall for it without thinking.
mark
October 31, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Bananas are also good for long distance travellers using public transport. They absorb liquids and you wont need to stop the bus to urinate anywhere even when drinking on the journey
Wojtek
December 27, 2012 at 1:32 am
The radioactive thing is relaly funny. One of the questions on my last physics exam was how large the effective full-body dose would be if you ate an ideal banana per day. The answer I got was in the 10^-6 Sv/year range, if I remember correctly.The flowers are fantastic! I’m so jealous of the climate at your brother’s residence. Over here spring has gently begun coming