Improve Your Blood Flow with Beetroot

This is a rarely grown plant even in places where it can grow well. Maybe people have not know it's benefits. However, you have I'll find it in the grocery shops at a fair price. Most people know that it helps in adding blood and in most cases people will use it when they are told that their blood level is low. Well, it's a good fruit fruits I'd say and it has those benefits. There people who don't like it's taste and the smell while others have never considered it.

Beet root comes with a lot of benefits such as ;

• Improving the blood flow and oxygenation to the areas of lack
• It contains alpha-lipoic acid which is good in lowering glucose levels and it increases insulin sensitivity. It as well prevent oxidative stress induced changes in patients with diabetes.
• Consumption of beetroot juice is said to reduce the risks of obesity, diabetes and heart diseases. 

Note that beetroots are good when taken raw. Many people cook it and this reduces the effectiveness. If you can't chew it there is another option which is best, this is making beetroot juice. You can make be taking it often. Find it in the market and let it help your body

Ginger Helps in Lowering Cholestrol

Ginger

We all know this plant and we often use it in tea or food. People love it because of the smell and the taste that it adds to the food but they have never thought of its benefits. Today I want us to look at its benefits. It's use as a medicine and it is mostly known in curing flu and common cold but it has more benefits than that.

Here are ginger medicinal values:

• Ginger lowers cholesterol levels
• It's helps in treating chronic indigestion which is known as dypepsias
• It contains a substance that helps in preventing cancer
• It improves brain function and protects it against Alzheimer's disease
• Ginger helps in reducing pain as effectively as a drug metanamic acid and ibuprofen
• It also helps in alleviating nausea which is caused by chemotherapy
• It drastically lowers blood sugar
• It improves heart disease risk factor
• And finally it cures nausea and helps in fighting flu and common cold

Maybe you've never thought of ginger as a medicine but now you know what it is good for. But always remember too much of something is poisonous.

NB: before you use ginger as a medicine it is important to consult a physician for help.

Herbs for Food

It has been long since I posted but with this new year I've to post helpful information for you. This time round I want to take you through some of the fruits and vegetables that we grow in our gardens or buy from the groceries just because we love them but  we don't actually know how they help our bodies. I will be posting about a particular fruit or vegetable and highlight the benefit of it. So I welcome you this year for some helpful healthy articles.

As you all know having a balanced diet is very important but one thing I learnt over the holiday was that there are more plants and weeds which can be very helpful as far as nutrients needed in our bodies are concerned. When God created man he told him that he can have the herbs as his food. Herbs! Yes. Herbs have got leaves, roots, stems, fruits and branches and we have seen some scientists say that some of these herbs and I'd say most of them are medicinal.

Sure they are and that is why we need to be using them and keep off some tablets down. Apart from leaves and branches, we have fruits and seeds which are produced by these herbs and trees. They are also important. The most amazing thing about these herbs is that they are available in the bushes, forests and in the shrubs. These are some of the places where most of us don’t want to go and so we opt to go the easier way of getting the medicines and easy food from the stores.

However, not every herb is good for human consumption. Some might destroy your health completely. Another thing that I want you to know is that the quantity of the substance matter's a lot. Don't just take herbs as medicine just because you have heard that it is helpful. Get to know the amount that you are supposed to take and the duration. Consulting or asking saves a lot of guess work and lives.

Something that I've learnt in the few past days is that we may be feeding our livestock with the best but we eat the least among the herbs. This is because of we don't have the knowledge of what these weeds have that can be of help to us. Also, we leave the herbs in the farm to just grow and cut them to decompose and become helpful to the soil. We should know that we are more important than livestock and than soil and start taking care of ourselves.

We will be going through some of the herbs, fruits and vegetables so as to let you know what you are supposed to take and how much you should take. I'm therefore welcoming you back to my blog this year and the years to come to learn and get more knowledge.