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bananas
Started by Guest_the breeze_*, Mar 18 2006 03:59 PM
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 03:59 PM
got a e mail about bananas being the perfect food with all kinds of good things it dose for your health. anyone know anything about this.?
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 04:10 PM
I've always heard the same, Bruce. All of my kids' coaches encourage kids to eat bananas. Here's some info I found on the net. The last paragraph is a hoot.
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Health Benefits of Bananas - Nature's Perfect Food & Medicine
A banana (with milk) constitutes almost a completed balanced diet with potassium, vitamins and fiber.
The banana is the most versatile of all fruits: it is an ideal finger food for young children, it is easily digested, rarely causes allergies and contains natural sugars (sucrose, fructose and glucose) which are released quickly into the bloodstream, giving instant energy.
The banana contains a high-grade protein, which includes three of the essential amino acids. Banana and milk supplement each other in an ideal manner and provide all the needed nutrients to the body.
An electrolyte is a substance that, when dissolved in water, gives a solution that can conduct electricity. In your body, these are most often dissolved salts that contain sodium and potassium ions. Electrolytes are also called ionic solutes.
The concentration of dissolved salts (electrolytes) in your blood affects all of your bodily functions. Electrolytes are responsible for maintaining many functions in the human body, including normal muscle contraction, blood pressure, nerve conduction, heart rate and gastrointestinal motility. They also play an important role in energy metabolism.
Bananas are famous for containing potassium, an essential electrolyte that helps regulate blood chemistry (particularly Ph) and improves carbohydrate metabolism by helping the muscles act efficiently. Without potassium (and sodium) your muscles stop firing correctly. Severe loss of sodium can produce really nasty complications all the way up to shock and death. Potassium also prevents the blood's Ph from becoming too acidic. Bananas are also rich in vitamin B6, which helps metabolize more than 60 proteins and assists in red blood cell production that transports oxygen to muscles and folate in bananas helps concentration and memory.
Bananas give you 17% of your Daily Value of Vitamin C, an antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals (harmful waste products) in your body and helps produce collagen, the building block of the connective tissues such as tendons and cartilage that keep your knees strong. And the banana's magnesium plays a role in energy transport and is involved in the synthesis of protein, which helps you recover from fatigue.
Getting plenty of fiber in your diet is important for good health. Fiber has important benefits including reducing cholesterol, improving blood sugar control, and lowering risk of heart disease. It has a positive effect on the digestive system by helping to maintain regularity and reduce risk of diverticulitis and hernias.
Bananas, like most fiber, tend to help both diarrhea and constipation. Some people cannot take fiber supplements every day for more than a few weeks, but anyone can eat several bananas a day for many years with no problem. Two bananas a day (or one with every large meal) offers optimal GI effect (a slippery, soft stool with no mess). What you spend on bananas you will save on toilet paper.
A banana (with milk) constitutes almost a completed balanced diet with potassium, vitamins and fiber.
The banana is the most versatile of all fruits: it is an ideal finger food for young children, it is easily digested, rarely causes allergies and contains natural sugars (sucrose, fructose and glucose) which are released quickly into the bloodstream, giving instant energy.
The banana contains a high-grade protein, which includes three of the essential amino acids. Banana and milk supplement each other in an ideal manner and provide all the needed nutrients to the body.
An electrolyte is a substance that, when dissolved in water, gives a solution that can conduct electricity. In your body, these are most often dissolved salts that contain sodium and potassium ions. Electrolytes are also called ionic solutes.
The concentration of dissolved salts (electrolytes) in your blood affects all of your bodily functions. Electrolytes are responsible for maintaining many functions in the human body, including normal muscle contraction, blood pressure, nerve conduction, heart rate and gastrointestinal motility. They also play an important role in energy metabolism.
Bananas are famous for containing potassium, an essential electrolyte that helps regulate blood chemistry (particularly Ph) and improves carbohydrate metabolism by helping the muscles act efficiently. Without potassium (and sodium) your muscles stop firing correctly. Severe loss of sodium can produce really nasty complications all the way up to shock and death. Potassium also prevents the blood's Ph from becoming too acidic. Bananas are also rich in vitamin B6, which helps metabolize more than 60 proteins and assists in red blood cell production that transports oxygen to muscles and folate in bananas helps concentration and memory.
Bananas give you 17% of your Daily Value of Vitamin C, an antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals (harmful waste products) in your body and helps produce collagen, the building block of the connective tissues such as tendons and cartilage that keep your knees strong. And the banana's magnesium plays a role in energy transport and is involved in the synthesis of protein, which helps you recover from fatigue.
Getting plenty of fiber in your diet is important for good health. Fiber has important benefits including reducing cholesterol, improving blood sugar control, and lowering risk of heart disease. It has a positive effect on the digestive system by helping to maintain regularity and reduce risk of diverticulitis and hernias.
Bananas, like most fiber, tend to help both diarrhea and constipation. Some people cannot take fiber supplements every day for more than a few weeks, but anyone can eat several bananas a day for many years with no problem. Two bananas a day (or one with every large meal) offers optimal GI effect (a slippery, soft stool with no mess). What you spend on bananas you will save on toilet paper.
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 04:11 PM
thanks. on edit just read the last paragraph. 
Edited by the breeze, 18 March 2006 - 04:18 PM.
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 05:12 PM
Just half of a banana makes my sugar spike. As a diabetic I have to avoid them. Dang!
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 06:56 PM
I hear they are bad for older folks. Potassium or something.
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 07:02 PM
They make a great banana split.
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 07:10 PM
I used to get bad leg cramps during the night, especially after vigorous exercise such as skiing. Since Iv'e taken to eating a banana a day I rarely ever get thme anymore. 
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 09:29 PM
Just a small note of correction (I think) to the c&p: while they are great for children (or most anyone), I think you have to be careful about young babies. I recall being told they are difficult for the fairly new digestive system, so DON'T make them one of the first solid/semi-solid foods.
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Or maybe it's just that babies don't NEED any help in the latter subject.
*** I stand to be corrected on this.
Or maybe it's just that babies don't NEED any help in the latter subject.
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 11:12 PM
Hmmm....things must have changed because smashed bananas were the first food (other than rice cereal) that my pediatrician told me to introduce to my kids. I think they were enjoying bananas at about 7 or 8 months.
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 12:05 AM
Could be - as I said, I wasn't convinced of this. Just something my wife was brought up with. Back when I became a Dad, Tricky Dick I was still the Prez.....
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 07:31 AM
Citizen Eric, on Mar 16 2006, 12:56 PM, said:
I hear they are bad for older folks. Potassium or something.
I believe it is the opposite. Low potassium can lead to heart irregulatities. I think this is one of the plusses(potassium) for Gatoraid and such.
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 07:28 PM
My step mother could not have bananas because her body did not metabolize the potassium and it would build up to toxic levels in her body...
This condition did not happen until she was in her 70s. Not saying it happens with all elder people, just that it happened with her.
This condition did not happen until she was in her 70s. Not saying it happens with all elder people, just that it happened with her.
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Posted 20 March 2006 - 06:03 AM
small amount will add body to wine but 100 percent makes the slimyest
wine you ever saw got a good sent/taste when cooked
wine you ever saw got a good sent/taste when cooked
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eb belote, on Mar 20 2006, 06:03 AM, said:
small amount will add body to wine but 100 percent makes the slimyest
wine you ever saw got a good sent/taste when cooked
wine you ever saw got a good sent/taste when cooked
I never heard that one before.
My FIL makes wine... I'll have to pass that on to him.
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