Advantages of Eating Banana

BANANA cheap and contain potassium which is very useful in the fight against health problems such as stroke.
Banana desserts are often in this country. Generally, the potassium content of bananas cause it is recommended by doctors to patients who lack such resources.
For example, a banana over 22 centimeters (cm) contains 600 milligrams of potassium.
Diet consultant, Indra Balaratnam share useful information about the benefits of bananas.

According to Assistant Secretary of the Association of Malaysian Dietitian, laboratory studies show bananas contain starch by 20 percent and one percent sugar.
"When it turns yellow banana ready to be eaten, the sugar content will be split into 66 per cent sucrose, 14 per cent fraktosa, and 20 percent glucose.
"In general, bananas free of fat, low in salt and rich in vitamins and potassium.
"This is causing all kinds of banana categorized as healthy.
"Furthermore, it is easy to eat and digest, especially for babies aged six months and older.
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"There are no side effects on health even bananas sweet as sugar content in bananas is a natural," he said.
He said, there is a difference between bananas eaten with banana chips or fried bananas.
According to him, or made ​​fried banana chips contain fat.
So, it is safe if the intake of fried bananas reduced to once a week or once a month.
If fried, nutrients and vitamins and other nutrients in bananas will be reduced but will increase the fat content.
He said, bananas are also considered important in the medical field. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women are encouraged by doctors to eat bananas to facilitate the delivery. It also provides energy to fight and cure diseases.
Several international studies found that nearly 15 kinds of health problems can be reduced by eating a banana.
"Among other things, the prevalence of anemia is the lack of hemoglobin in the blood can be overcome by eating a banana because it helps increase the formation of hemoglobin.
"High potassium content in bananas also helps lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of stroke," he explained.
He added, in addition, the high fiber content helps bowel problems normally every day.
It also reduces the pressure for a protein known as Trytophan in it helps to calm the mind and the brain is under pressure.
He added that people who are struggling with the fear of disease, obesity and smoking habits, encouraged to eat bananas and they believed to be free from the problem gradually.
Research has also shown that a person faced with sickness, especially women who feel nausea and vomiting during the first few months of pregnancy, can take bananas to avoid the problem.
In addition, they are facing the problem of obesity as a result of stress in the workplace can be overcome by eating bananas every two hours.
It can help relieve stress as well as controlling blood sugar. The inside of a banana skin helps restore irritation from mosquito bites.
"What is important, we need to focus on health by practicing eating bananas.
"For the kids, we are very easy to get them to eat a banana because it's sweet and soft. It can be provided in the form of cakes, muffins and banana bread, "he said.
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Bananas are available all year round. In this country, banana rastali, gold, horn, ash and chestnut is the best seller. It has also become the focus of traders and fried banana chips.
A dealer at the market fruits Keramat, Kuala Lumpur, Ramli Mat Dalip, 42, said the banana is always preferred people and it is one of the fruits that can be found throughout the year.
He said the business since 15 years ago, chestnut and ash banana traders often buy chips or cookies.
However, he added, bananas and chestnuts is the best-selling and purchased users because it is sweet and can be eaten alone.
"In terms of price, there is not much difference because the price of bananas in the kind sold at around RM2.80 to RM3 per kg.
"The demand for bananas, especially during the festive season of Chinese New Year, Deepavali and Wesak Day was also impressive.
"Consumers often come in asking for bananas and rastali small size of between seven to 10 cm.
"They will use the banana in prayer than to eat," he said.
Meanwhile, another dealer Romlah Ahmad, 31, said, compared to other fruits, especially imported, bananas do not face the problem of rising prices.
"Bananas do not have that problem. The price at which even approximates that remain around RM2.80 to RM3.50 per kg.
"After all is said to be the most nutritious and bananas are rich in nutrients and vitamins. No wonder people like to eat, "he said.
In the meantime, a lecturer in a private college in the capital, Daljit Kaur, 36, said he and his family love bananas because goodness derived from the fruit.
He said that since childhood he loves to eat bananas and never once did he deal with a friend who has a shortage of hemoglobin in the blood and suggested that he eat bananas to solve the problem.
"After that, I found his health improved even a year later, he almost completely free of the problem.
"Besides, my three children, aged between six to 13 years old also loves to eat bananas every day.
"They appear to be healthy and not have difficulty to defecate," he said.
By Kumara SABAPATTY
kumara.sabapatty@kosmo.com.my