What Do Strawberries Do in Your Body?
Strawberries now seem to be available all year round in California. To make sure you get the best benefits from strawberries only buy those without pesticides or that are organic. Buy your strawberries at a farmers market or at a market where you can ask the seller if the berries are organic or pesticide free.
During the middle ages, strawberries were used for many conditions and physical problems. Strawberries have been grown in North American for the past 200 year. It has been use during this time as a natural remedy. In England they were used as a binder for loose teeth. Indians used it as an anti-diarrhea medicine, diuretic, or astringent. As a folk medicine it was used as a cure for acne, ulceration, and ringworm.
For acne or a skin nutrient, strawberries were cut and rubbed on the face after washing. This application was said to whiten the skin and remove a little bit of sunburn.
B-vitamins in Strawberries
Strawberries contain pantothenic acid, which very few fruits have. Pantothenic acid is vitamin B5 which is critical in breaking down, absorbing, and creating fats, proteins and carbohydrates. They also have traces of other B-vitamins.
Strawberries fight cancer
Strawberries contain ellagic acid which is believed to stimulate certain enzymes that fight cancer. It has been found that people who ate the most strawberries were three time less likely to develop cancer than those not eating them. There is evidence that they also inhibit the absorption of HIV into your cells and the HIV enzyme activity in your DNA.
Strawberries fight viruses
Strawberries are also useful in reduce flu infections. They are known to eliminate, in test tubes, the viruses echovirus, poliovirus, reovirus, coxsackievirus, and the herpes simplex virus. They are also high in pectin, which aids in the reduction of cholesterol.
Like other fruits, strawberries are high in the antioxidant anthocyanin. It is a powerful antioxidant that increases as the strawberry becomes ripe.
Strawberry smoothie
Buy them at the ripe at farmers market and freeze the ones you can’t eat in a day or two, for the weeks use. You can make a morning strawberry smoothie with them by combining them with a banana, apple juice, a little powdered vitamin C, flaxseed, wheat germ and other boosters that you like. You can drink this strawberry smoothie all morning long by using a thermos and taking it to work. Eat your strawberries from 8 am to lunch and use them as snacks between meals. Avoid eating strawberries after a meal as desert, if you want your stomach to digest them properly.
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