BENEFITS OF SOURSOP

AMAZING NUTRIENTS IN RIPE SOURSOP

Soursop contains abundant amounts of vitamin C and several B vitamins like thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin as well as minerals like calcium, phosphorus and a small amount of iron. The fruit comprises of 67.5% pulp, 20% fruit skin, 8.5% fruit seeds and 4% core pieces. Know about nutritional benefits of soursop fruit.

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy	276 kJ (66 kcal)
Carbohydrates	16.84 g
Sugars	13.54 g
Dietary fiber	3.3 g
Fat	0.3 g
Protein	1 g
Thiamine (vit. B1)	0.07 mg (6%)
Riboflavin (vit. B2)	0.05 mg (4%)
Niacin (vit. B3)	0.9 mg (6%)
Pantothenic acid	0.253 mg (5%)
Vitamin B6	0.059 mg (5%)
Folate	14 μg (4%)
Choline	7.6 mg (2%)
Vitamin C	20.6 mg (25%)
Calcium	14 mg (1%)
Iron	0.6 mg (5%)
Magnesium	21 mg (6%)
Phosphorus	27 mg (4%)
Potassium	278 mg (6%)
Sodium	14 mg (1%)
Zinc	0.1 mg (1%)

What We Should Know

• Health Benefits of Soursop
  • Controls Parasite
  • Has Anti-inflammatory Properties
  • Relieves Respiratory Distress
  • Treats Insomnia
  • Skin Care
  • Prevents Cancer
  • Boosts Immunity
  • Improves Gastrointestinal Health
  • Has Analgesic Properties

HOW TO PACK SALAD FOR THE WEEK

HOW TO PACK SALAD FOR THE WEEK

Eating a big salad at least once a day is a great way to maintain healthy habits. Don't have time to cut up a salad every single night? Here's a way to make all the salads you need for your workweek at once. Follow these simple salad-making rules, and your meal will taste just as fresh on Friday as it does on Monday!

This is just a general guide with lots of room for creativity. Even though you're making all five salads at one time, you can still make them all a little different with the types of toppings and dressings you use for each one. It's a great way to save time and money and ensure you're getting a dose of daily veggies for healthy weight loss. 

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Bad Habbits Against Our Health We Have Been Practicing

All in the name of fun, work type, laziness and unawareness,  we intentionally and unintentionally make some negative life changing mistakes that could be corrected or never corrected throughout our life time. 

DO YOU KNOW? 

*1.* Any food you consume after 8 P.M. everyday is equally a poison to your body?

*2.* If you can follow the water therapy for 3 months religiously, your skin, your body and your organs begins to function well?

*3.* Do you know Breakfast is the most important meal of the day; If you must skip any meal, it shouldn't be breakfast?

*4.* Do you know too much red meat is very dangerous to your health?

*5.* Do you know people who smile always live longer, look younger and are more healthier than their counter part who does not?

*Listen:*

 You can use the most expensive cream on your body; you can take the best care of your body, but *HONEY* with *BANANA* can make your skin glow, make it look good and make people ask you the kind of cream you are using.

*6.* For every bottle of soft drink and/or beer you consume, you have just taken 9cubes and 44cubes of sugar respectively, and it takes 7 days or more for it to wash off your body; men increase their likelihood of having a heart attack by 20 percent.

*7.* Fried meat is a killer; It is damaging your body.

*8.* People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level.

*9.* Drinking water only when you are thirsty is obtaining a license to damage your liver.

*10.* Holding your urine when you are supposed to let go is another way you are damaging your liver and kidney.

*11.* Adding salt into your food when it is already served is another way of slowly poisoning yourself and vital organs?

*12.* Observing the routine of proper eating: Eat BREAKFAST like a KING, LUNCH like a PRINCE and DINNER like a BEGGAR would help you live longer.

Please take care of your health, for HEALTH is WEALTH.

 *7 Biggest brain damaging habits*

1: Missing breakfast.

2: Sleeping late.

3: High sugar consumption.

6: Wearing Cap/scarf or socks while sleeping.

7: Habit of blocking/Stoping Urine.

This are daily practices that can be stopped or corrected, please endeavour to make changes so that you can live a sound and healthy life in your home not in the hospital. 

Thank you. 

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HOW TO RESTORE KERATIN IN THE BODY NATURALLY

HOW TO RESTORE KERATIN IN YOUR BODY NATURALLY

Living cells in your skin, called keratinocytes, produce a protective layer that provides flexible strength and keeps water and other external material out of your body. Keratinocytes provide this strength by producing a tough, triple-helix-shaped protein strand called keratin. Keratin is the primary constituent of skin, hair, nails and tooth enamel. The number of disulfide bonds that form between the three strands of the amino acid allow it to be flexible, as it is in skin and hair, or make it strong and hard, as it is in nails, animal hooves and tooth enamel. You can increase your keratin by consuming foods that are used to produce the keratin or by applying keratin-enhancing products topically.

STEP 1


Maintain a diet rich in protein. Protein provides amino acids needed by the keratinocytes to produce keratin. For the sake of your cardiovascular health, avoid or minimize fatty red meats. Eat lean meats, fish, yogurt and low-fat dairy to infuse your body with the essential amino acids that boost keratin production and enhance your skin, hair and nails.

STEP 2

Consume iron-rich food. Iron helps red blood cells transport oxygen to your hair follicles, as well as to the other tissues that benefit from iron. Animal protein provides iron that is easily absorbed by the body. Iron-rich animal protein includes turkey, duck, chicken, pork, shrimp, eggs, lean beef and lamb. Plant foods that contain iron-rich protein include beans, black-eyed peas, soybeans, tofu and lentils.

STEP 3

Eat foods with plenty of vitamin C. Vitamin C enhances the absorption of vegetarian-based iron, so consume vitamin C foods at the same time that you eat vegetable-based protein. Foods rich in vitamin C include broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, peppers, guava, papaya, grapefruit, oranges, pineapple, strawberries and lemons.


STEP 4

Boost your intake of B vitamins. The B vitamins enhance creation of red blood cells, which in turn carry nutrients and oxygen to your scalp, follicles and growing hair. Foods with vitamin B-6 or B-12 include wild salmon, trout, shellfish, white potatoes with the skin, bananas, lentils, garbanzo beans, fortified whole-grain cereals, lean beef, chicken breasts and pork tenderloin. Foods with folate include oatmeal, fortified whole-grain cereal, spinach, beets, parsnips, broccoli, okra, black-eye peas and soybeans.

STEP 5

Consume foods with zinc, such as oysters, crab, pork tenderloin, turkey, veal, chicken, peanut butter, wheat germ and chickpeas. Zinc facilitates hair and tissue growth and repair and helps maintain the oil glands that surround hair follicles.

STEP 6

Use keratin formulated shampoos to nourish and supplement the keratin in your hair. Keratin shampoos help repair damaged hair, protect against further breakage and add elasticity and shine. Keratin treatments, available at salons and also for home treatment, use high temperature flat irons to make the keratin bond more effectively with your hair.

TIPS

Don't expect immediate results. The food you eat now affects the growth of new keratin. It will take 6 to 12 months for your hair to show the results.
Increased keratin will help strengthen hair, but it won't affect thinning hair due to male pattern baldness.
Avoid keratin hair treatments that contain more than 2 percent formaldehyde.

REASON FOR MOIMOI IN GREEN ORGANIC LEAF

REASON FOR MOIMOI IN GREEN ORGANIC LEAF
Have you taken time to wonder why the moimoi was discovered?

• Because of its organic nature
• Because it is not poisnous
• Because it has nutrients like other vegetables which it transfers to the moimoi while its cooking.
• Because it gives it a natural taste maintaining taste of every item in the moimoi
• Because its easier to use

Because we care about your health, we suggest you always use leaf.
Anything that is naturally grown is always the best.

POWER IN THE BEET GREENS

 WHY THIS VEGETABLE IS VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE

 BEET ROOTS is a very important vegetable that no matter the amount of sugar in it, the body still needs it for its purpose.


Beet roots have always been included in my most recommended vegetable list, although they are in the "use sparingly" category because of their high carbohydrate levels.
Although beets have the highest sugar content of all vegetables, most people can safely eat beet roots a few times a week (and their greens in unlimited quantities), enjoying not only their sweet, earthy flavor but also their powerhouse nutrients that may improve your health in the following ways.

FEW BENEFITS 

* Lower Your Blood Pressure
* Anti-Cancer Properties
* Boost Your Stamina
* Detoxification Support
* Rich in Valuable Nutrients and Fiber
* Fight Inflammation



Without many people knowing,they dont pay attention to the leaves which serves even more nutrients
If you simply throw away the green leafy tops to your beets, you're doing yourself a disservice, as these are among the healthiest part of the plant.
Besides containing important nutrients like protein, phosphorus, zinc, fiber, vitamin B6, magnesium, potassium, copper, and manganese, beet greens also supply significant amounts of vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, and iron.
Beet greens actually have even more iron than spinach (another leafy green in the same botanical family) as well as a higher nutritional value overall than the beetroot itself.

BEETROOT

• Help ward off osteoporosis by boosting bone strength
• Fight Alzheimer's disease
• Strengthen your immune system by stimulating the production of antibodies and white blood cells

If you've never tried beet greens before, don't let them intimidate you. They can be added raw to vegetable juice or sautéed lightly right along with other greens like spinach.

BENEFITS OF SPINACH

The Love and Benefits of Spinach are equal 
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Dark leafy greens like spinach are important for skin and hair, bone health, and provide protein, iron, Vitamins and Minerals.
The possible health benefits of consuming spinach include improving blood glucose control in diabetics, lowering the risk of Cancers, lowering Blood pressure, improving bone health, lowering the risk of developing Asthma and more.

Health Benefits of Spinach. Low in fat and even lower in cholesterol, spinach is high in niacin and zinc, as well as protein, fiber, vitamins A, C, E and K, thiamin, vitamin B6, folate, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, copper, and manganese.

 Health Benefits of Spinach

Diabetes management: spinach contains an Antioxidants  which has been shown to lower glucose levels, increase Insulin sensitivity and prevent Oxidative stress-induced changes in patients with Diabetes


Cancer prevention: Spinach and other green vegetables contain chlorophyll which has shown to be effective at blocking the carcinogenic effects of Heterocyclic Amines which are generated when grilling foods at a high temperature.²

Asthma prevention: The risks for developing asthma are lower in people who consume a high amount of certain nutrients. One of these nutrients is Beta-Carotene, of which spinach is an excellent source. Apricots, Broccoli, , Pumpkin and Carrots are also rich sources of beta-carotene.³

Lowering blood pressure: because of its high Potassium content, spinach is recommended to those with High Blood Pressure to negate the effects of sodium in the body. A low potassium intake may be just as big of a risk factor in developing high blood pressure as a high sodium intake.⁴
Other high potassium foods include potatoes, tomatoes, lima beans and oranges.

Bone health: Low intakes of vitamin K have been associated with a higher risk for Bone fracture. Adequate vitamin K consumption is important for good health, as it acts as a modifier of bone matrix proteins, improves Calcium absorption and may reduce urinary excretion of calcium.⁵

Promotes regularity: Spinach is high in fiber and water content, both of which help to prevent Constipation and promote a healthy digestive tract.

Healthy skin and hair: Spinach is high in vitamin A, which is necessary for sebum production to keep hair moisturized. Vitamin A is also necessary for the growth of all bodily tissues, including skin and hair. Spinach and other leafy greens high in vitamin C are imperative for the building and maintenance of Collagen which provides structure to skin and hair.
Iron-deficiency is a common cause of Hair loss, which can be prevented by an adequate intake of iron-rich foods, like spinach.

Nutritional breakdown of spinach

One cup of raw spinach contains 27 Calories, 0.86 grams of protein, 30 milligrams of calcium, 0.81 grams of iron, 24 milligrams of Magnessium, 167 milligrams of potassium, 2813 IUs of Vitamin A and 58 micrograms of Folate.
Most of the calories in spinach come from protein.
Spinach is one of the best sources of dietary potassium, weighing in at 839mg per cup (cooked). To compare, one cup of Banana has about 539mg of potassium.

A lack of iron in your diet can effect how efficiently your body uses energy. Spinach is a great non-heme source of iron, along with lentils, tuna and eggs.
Spinach contains approximately 250mg of calcium per cup (cooked), however it is less easily absorbed than calcium from sources like dairy products.
 Spinach has a high Oxalate content, which binds to calcium deeming it unavailable for use in our bodies.
When it's all said and done, our bodies can only absorb about 5% of the calcium in spinach (about 12.5mg per cup) whereas the absorption rate from calcium in milk is about 28% (300mg of calcium in one cup of milk at a Bioavailability level of 28% would provide 84 mg per cup).

Spinach is also one of the best sources of dietary magnesium, which is necessary for energy metabolism,
* maintaining muscle and nerve function,
* heart rhythm, a healthy immune system and maintaining blood pressure.
Magnesium also plays a part in hundreds more biochemical reactions that occur in the body.
Those with digestive disorders, alcoholic, older adults and individuals taking medications such as Antibiotics and diuretics are more likely to have a magnesium deficiency and should consume more leafy greens.
Spinach also contains vitamin K, fiber, phosphorus and thiamine.

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Precautions associated with consuming spinach

 Consuming too much potassium can be harmful for those whose kidneys are not fully functional. If your kidneys are unable to remove excess potassium from the blood, it could be fatal.

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