A trick to
get rid of frequent cough
- Carrot
mixer
Carrots belong to the Umbelliferae family, named after the umbrella-like flower
clusters that plants in this family produce. As such, carrots are related to
parsnips, fennel, parsley, anise, caraway, cumin and dill. Carrots can be as
small as two inches or as long as three feet, ranging in diameter from one-half
of an inch to over two inches. Carrot roots have a crunchy texture and a sweet
and minty aromatic taste, while the greens are fresh tasting and slightly
bitter. While we usually associate carrots with the color orange, carrots can actually
be found in a host of other colors including white, yellow, red, or purple.
Here is
treatment to get rid of cough
Method of carrot mixer-
Ingredients-
500g of
carrot
4 table
spoon of honey
Water
Method-
First chop
the carrots into small pieces . then put them into water and boil. Take awareness
not to throw the water which used to boil. Separate carrots from water. Then blender
them and make them juice. Then take the water that separate after boil and add
4table spoon of honey and mix them well.
Add the carrot
juice and mix well.
Drink 4table
spoon at a time for three times per day. You will get result minimum two days.
Health Benefits
Carrots are perhaps best
known for their rich supply of the antioxidant nutrient that was actually named
for them: beta-carotene. However, these delicious root vegetables are the
source not only of beta-carotene, but also of a wide variety of antioxidants and
other health-supporting nutrients. The areas of antioxidant benefits,
cardiovascular benefits, and anti-cancer benefits are the best-researched areas
of health research with respect to dietary intake of carrots.
Antioxidant Benefits
All varieties of carrots
contain valuable amounts of antioxidant nutrients. Included here are
traditional antioxidants like vitamin C, as well as phytonutrient antioxidants
like beta-carotene. The list of carrot phytonutrient antioxidants is by no
means limited to beta-carotene, however. This list includes:
- Carotenoids
- alpha-carotene
- beta-carotene
- lutein
- Hydroxycinnamic acids
- caffeic acid
- coumaric acid
- ferulic acid
- Anthocyanindins
- cyanidins
- malvidins
Different varieties of
carrots contain differing amounts of these antioxidant phytonutrients. Red and
purple carrots, for example, are best known for the rich anthocyanin content.
Oranges are particularly outstanding in terms of beta-carotene, which accounts
for 65% of their total carotenoid content. In yellow carrots, 50% of the total
carotenoids come from lutein. You're going to receive outstanding antioxidant
benefits from each of these carrot varieties!
Cardiovascular Benefits
Given their antioxidant
richness, it's not surprising to find numerous research studies documenting the
cardiovascular benefits of carrots. Our cardiovascular system needs constant
protection from antioxidant damage. This is particularly true of our arteries,
which are responsible for carrying highly oxygenated blood.
A recent study from the
Netherlands, in which participants were followed for a period of 10 years, has
given us some fascinating new information about carrots and our risk of
cardiovascular disease (CVD). In this study, intake of fruits and vegetables
was categorized by color. The researchers focused on four color categories:
green, orange/yellow, red/purple, and white. Out of these four categories,
orange/yellow (and in particular, foods with deeper shades of orange and
yellow) was determined to be the most protective against CVD. Within this dark
orange/yellow food group, carrots were determined to be the single most
risk-reducing food. Participants who had the least carrot intake had the least
amount of CVD risk reduction, even though they still received risk-reducing
benefits from their carrot intake. However, participants who ate at least 25
more grams of carrots (with 25 grams being less than one-quarter of a cup) had
a significantly lower risk of CVD. And the groups of participants who ate 50-
or 75-grams more had an even more greatly reduced risk of CVD! We're not sure
how any study could better demonstrate how easy it can be to lower CVD risk by
making a food like carrot part of the everyday diet.
Antioxidant nutrients in
carrots are believed to explain many of the cardioprotective benefits provided
by these root vegetables. The many different kinds of carrot antioxidants are
most likely to work together and provide us with cardiovascular benefits that
we could not obtain from any of these antioxidants alone if they were split
apart and consumed individually, in isolation from each other. The synergistic
effect of carrot antioxidants is a great example of a whole food and its
uniqueness as a source of nourishment.
Yet in addition to the
diverse mixture of carrot antioxidants, there is yet another category of carrot
phytonutrient that is believed to help explain carrot protection against
cardiovascular disease.That category is polyacetylenes. Polyacetylenes are
unique phytonutrients made from metabolism of particular fatty acids (often
involving crepenynic acid, stearolic acid and tariric acid). They are
particularly common in the Apiaceae/Umbelliferae family of plants (which includes carrot). The
two best-researched polyacetylenes in carrot are falcarinol and falcarindiol.
Preliminary research on animals and in the lab has shown that carrot
polyacetylenes have anti-inflammatory properties and anti-aggregatory
properties (that help prevent excessive clumping together of red blood cells).
So in addition to the unique mix of antioxidants in carrot, polyacetylenes may
play a key role in the cardiovascular protection provided by this amazing food.
Vision Health
While you might expect
to find a large number of human research studies documenting the benefits of
carrot intake for eye health, there are relatively few studies in this area.
Most studies about carotenoids and eye health have focused on carotenoid levels
in the bloodstream and the activities of the carotenoids themselves, rather
than the food origins of carotenoids (like carrots). Still, we have found some
smaller scale human studies that show clear benefits of carrot intake for eye
health. For example, researchers at the Jules Stein Institute at the University
of California at Los Angeles determined that women who consume carrots at least
twice per week - in comparison to women who consume carrots less than once per
week - have significantly lower rates of glaucoma (damage to the optic nerve
often associated with excessive pressure inside the eye). Intake of geranyl
acetate - one of the photonutrients that is present in carrot seeds (and
sometimes extracted from purified carrot seed oil) has also been repeatedly
associated with reduced risk of cataracts in animal studies. However,
researchers have yet to analyze the amount of geranyl acetate in the root
portion of the carrot and the impact of dietary intake on risk of cataracts.
Anti-Cancer Benefits
The anti-cancer benefits
of carrot have been best researched in the area of colon cancer. Some of this
research has involved actual intake of carrot juice by human participants, and
other research has involved the study of human cancer cells types in the lab.
While much more research is needed in this area, the study results to date have
been encouraging. Lab studies have shown the ability of carrot extracts to
inhibit the grown of colon cancer cells, and the polyacetylenes found in carrot
(especially falcarinol) have been specifically linked to this inhibitory
effect. In studies of carrot juice intake, small but significant effects on
colon cell health have been shown for participants who consumed about 1.5 cups
of fresh carrot juice per day.
We're confident that
future studies in this area will show carrot intake as being protective against
risk of colon cancer. Carrots are simply too rich in digestive tract-supporting
fiber, antioxidant nutrients, and unique phytonutrients like falcarinol to be
neutral when it comes to support of the lower digestive tract and colon cancer
protection.
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