By: Ivana Dragica |
Healthiest foods of the world: lemon |
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Lemon is one of the most useful foods on the planet.
Lemon protects against so many diseases that it can rightfully be called a super-food.
Lemon is full of nutrients – it contains bioflavonoids, pectin, folic acid, vitamins C, A, B1, B6, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and manganese.
Furthermore, it has a beneficial effect on the liver, intestine, and stomach, immune, nervous and cardiovascular systems.
If you regularly eat lemon, you can prevent diseases such as laryngitis, bronchitis, flu, cold, arthritis, high blood pressure, bacterial infections, kidney stones and gallstones, and according to the latest research even cancer!
There are lots of ways to incorporate this food in your daily menu.
However, the simplest way is to drink 1-2 glasses of warm water with lemon every day.
Water with lemon
A glass of water taken with lemon immediately after waking up has a surprisingly good effect on health.
Yoga and Ayurveda are using this process to stimulate digestion and elimination of ama (toxins) from the body.
However, water with lemon has many other benefits for our health.
19 reasons why you should drink a glass of water with lemon every day:
- Lemon cleanses the liver and stimulates her work.
- It is a natural antiseptic and antioxidant. Prevents flu, cold and many types of infections.
- It helps with colic and stomach problems.
- Lemon is an excellent cure for dandruff and greasy hair.
- Water with lemon helps digestion, because its composition is similar to gastric acid.
- Lemon promotes the formation of an enzyme in the liver.
- Water with lemon normalize bowel function and facilitates their discharge.
- Lemon prevents gingivitis and stomatitis.
- Helps lower blood pressure and increases the levels of good (HDL) cholesterol.
- Lemon alkalizes organism.
- Water with lemon dilute uric acid, and thus helps with arthritis and gout.
- Lemon helps to eliminate excess mucus from the body.
- Prevents cramps and muscle pains.
- Lemon regulates metabolism.
- Protects against stress and depression.
- Reduces the risk of stroke.
- Prevents the formation of kidney stones and gallstones.
- Lemon protect against osteoporosis.
- Water with lemon promotes weight loss.
Additionally, lemon is a great detoxification food and is effective environment-friendly home cleansing product.
Preparing lemon beverages
Squeeze half a lemon in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it in the morning, on an empty stomach. During the day you can drink another 2-3 glasses of water with lemon. If you can not stand sour taste, sweeten the drink with maple or agave syrup.
It is best to use a lemon that is biologically cultivated or homegrown. Growing lemon at home is not at all difficult.
Plant lemon tree in your apartment
Lemons and cancer
Recently more and more often we hear about the effect of lemon on cancer.
Many alternative doctors claim that lemon is a powerful anti-cancer agent; it kills cancer cells much better than chemotherapy.
It is assumed that lemon is 10,000 times stronger than Adriamycin - a popular drug used for chemotherapy.
Another advantage of lemon is the fact that it effects only cancer cells and does not destroy healthy cells.
This fact was discovered by scientists, but it is assumed that the pharmaceutical industry keeps this fact as a top secret.
In addition to cancer cells, lemon kills bacteria, viruses and fungi, and is also effective against parasites.
This super-food has such an effect on health that it deserves to be used every day.
In fact, why not now take a glass of water now, squeeze a half of lemon in it and drink it?
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