After Reading This, You’ll Never Look At A Banana The Same Way Again

This is interesting.

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. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.

DEPRESSION

According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.

PMS:
Forget the pills – eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.

ANEMIA
High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.

BLOOD PRESSURE:
This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit’s ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.

BRAIN POWER
200 students at a Twickenham school ( England ) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.

CONSTIPATION
High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.

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.

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.

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 chips. 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.

ULCERS
The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chroniclercases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

TEMPERATURE CONTROL
Many other cultures see bananas as a ‘cooling’ fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has FOUR TIMES the protein, TWICE the carbohydrate, THREE TIMES the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around so maybe it’s time to change that well-known phrase to, “A BANANA a day keeps the doctor away!”

Source:After Reading This, You?ll Never Look At A Banana The Same Way Again | Spirit Science and Metaphysics

Bananas are great!

The only thing is I will be waiting for another scientific study that tells us that bananas could give us cancer, just like too much omega 3, which at one point was one of the most important supplements!!!

Mick

When I see something like this, my first question is:- Who sponsors the "research"?

A few Wiki extracts, not conclusive, but enough to give you a flavour:-

Founded by visionary David H. Murdock, owner of Dole Foods and Castle and Cooke Inc., the NCRC opened in October 2008. The NCRC is anchored by the
David H. Murdock Research Institute (DHMRI), the Rowan- Cabarrus Community College Biotechnology Training Center, the LabCorp BioRepository, eight of
North Carolina’s top universities, and nine corporate and non-profit partners. The NCRC is an unprecedented teaming of scientists, nutritionists, public health
experts, physicians, information analysts, farmers, food companies and entrepreneurs. The collaborative atmosphere has spawned more than $26 million in
federal research grants and spurred new public-private research collaborations.

Dole Food Company, Inc. is an American-based agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Westlake Village, California. The company is the largest
producer of fruits and vegetables in the world, operating with 74,300 full-time and seasonal employees who are responsible for over 300 products in 90
countries. However, once Chiquita Brands and Fyffes finish their merger, it will be No. 2. Dole markets such food items as bananas, pineapples (fresh
and packaged), grapes, strawberries, salads, and other fresh and frozen fruits and juices.
Are you surprised bananas are wonderful, given that BS is such a good fertilizer?.... Will I look bananas in the same way again?....Well, they're still bent.

From an infant until I was in my late teens I loved 'nanas and would eat 2 or 3 everyday, when I was very young the banana was quite a rare fruit but Dad was in the Navy and he always managed to have a weekly delivery turn up from somewhere (Mum used to tell us that during the war he used to manage to arrange the occassional delivery of fresh meat and now and again a pineapple which was an almost unheard of luxury).
As I reached my 20's my taste buds changed and I no longer craved bananas and now can only occassionally eat one sliced on cornflakes or in the banana loaf that my wife makes using over-ripe ones.

I may have it wrong but i thought a banana was hard to digest and not the best choice for those trying to loose weight .

Probably am wrong.

Those that love em watch out for the spider lurking in the middle of em oc:

Ferret said:

Those that love em watch out for the spider lurking in the middle of em oc:

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Don't know about the rest, but I guess spiders were "excluded from analysis".:Biggrin2:

D 8 RCS said:

From an infant until I was in my late teens I loved 'nanas and would eat 2 or 3 everyday, when I was very young the banana was quite a rare fruit but Dad was in the Navy and he always managed to have a weekly delivery turn up from somewhere (Mum used to tell us that during the war he used to manage to arrange the occasional delivery of fresh meat and now and again a pineapple which was an almost unheard of luxury).
As I reached my 20's my taste buds changed and I no longer craved bananas and now can only occasionally eat one sliced on cornflakes or in the banana loaf that my wife makes using over-ripe ones.

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I was told my first encounter was in my pram. Seems I was frightened by it, with the traditional response.
Funny what these threads turn up with a few background checks (I must have more useful things to do).

The top three growers are India, Uganda, and China. The top three exporters are Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Colombia.
With the exception of China, afaik none are noted for good health or long life, surprising when you think local produce must be cheap.
The Chinese do eat most of their production, so 50/50 would be fair, but probably the same benefits could apply to any fresh fruit,
and most vegetables. North America grows hardly any, but presumably eats a lot South American produce (well, a lot of anything really).

So, bananas with squeezed fresh lemon, and a dash of apple cider vinegar (our dog never complained). Then live forever, just to confound HMG.
Oh, and stay off the now "traditional" cranberries, don't think I'd heard of those until the Good Ole USA had a surplus.:Biggrin2:

Ferret said:

I may have it wrong but i thought a banana was hard to digest and not the best choice for those trying to loose weight .

Probably am wrong.

Those that love em watch out for the spider lurking in the middle of em oc:

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Food Myths
I don't know about you, but anytime I hear a generalization repeated more than a dozen times without any citation of evidence, I begin assuming it's false. I started the habit early. Once, as I pawed over a bunch of bananas in my grandmother's kitchen, she said to me for the umpteenth time, "Just one, now. They're hard to digest."

"No they're not," I said, snapping off two. "'Ever seen a sick monkey?"

She swiped at me with her rolled-up copy of the Grit, but as usual, I dodged the thing.

Today I know the truth about bananas: They're extraordinarily easy to digest when ripe, but not when they're green—which is why people who eat green bananas always cook them. Green bananas are mostly starch, whose giant molecules must be snipped apart by the digestive system before the body can absorb them. Ripe bananas have already predigested their own starches into tiny sugar molecules that pass readily into the bloodstream.

I effing hate bananas, they're just squidgy sticks of horribleness.

Strange how things return to normal, when media attention rolls past.

Not very long ago, bananas were an "emotive symbol" to some, to be avoided at all cost.

Now we just eat them (or not) without implication. Wonder what's next?:Biggrin2:

Ignoring the food-police BS...
@manic01 speaks wisely. The elders thought bananas were 'hard' to digest because they misunderstood the difference between 'hard' and 'slow'.

Yes, the rate of digestion varies depending on ripeness but they ripen on the window-sill. Some idiots bin them when the skin starts to turn brown but that's a good time to eat them?

Anyway, I usually ignore the latest 'facts' and eat a wide variety of stuff and sod 'em lol

Him Her said:

Ignoring the food-police BS...
@manic01 speaks wisely. The elders thought bananas were 'hard' to digest because they misunderstood the difference between 'hard' and 'slow'.

Yes, the rate of digestion varies depending on ripeness but they ripen on the window-sill. Some idiots bin them when the skin starts to turn brown but that's a good time to eat them?

Anyway, I usually ignore the latest 'facts' and eat a wide variety of stuff and sod 'em lol

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You and me too. And one day we'll be 105, lying in a hospital bed wondering what we're dying of!

PS Black bananas are great on the bbq

At the back of all this, taking out all the commercial aspects, the pre occupation with extending life is historical.
Before modern medicine, it was the primary "carrot" for almost all religions, albeit in some "altered form".

Medical advances to date, and the feasible prospect, in the reasonably near future, of extending life almost indefinitely,
coupled with the decline of serious individual belief in religion, has attraction, particularly to the more intelligent young.

The question becomes "Can I live long enough to reach the "breakthrough" threshold?"

Whether it would be desirable is a very different matter, given little thought, as usual.
Such a discovery would, in any case, have to be suppressed for pretty obvious reasons.
In a world that already has far too big a sustainable population, and which is still running out of control?

trevortron said:

You and me too. And one day we'll be 105, lying in a hospital bed wondering what we're dying of!

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A wee drop of something in your drip, for celebration?:Biggrin2:

I guess our primate ancestors maybe knew a thing or two...

I was told if you eat masses of bananas it can have a detrimental on your heart, altering the saline/potassium chemistry that creates the "beat"

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I was told if you eat masses of bananas it can have a detrimental on your heart, altering the saline/potassium chemistry that creates the "beat"

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Everything in moderation m8. We need water to survive for example, but drink gallons of the stuff in a oner & you'll do serious damage.

I used to hate Banana's until i went to Bulgaria on holiday about 9 years ago. I'm not a fussy eater as such but the food over there at the time was diabolical that i actually started enjoying Banana's over there. I now eat a few a week, i prefer them when the skin is starting to brown as they taste so much better

darren221980 said:

I used to hate Banana's until i went to Bulgaria on holiday about 9 years ago. I'm not a fussy eater as such but the food over there at the time was diabolical that i actually started enjoying Banana's over there. I now eat a few a week, i prefer them when the skin is starting to brown as they taste so much better

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Apparently that's the best time to eat them. If they go completely black then that's the time to barbeque 'em. :licka: