HEALTH BENEFITS OF STRAWBERRIES

Ah!! What a feeling!!  Feels like stepping into another wild, yet fancy world while I bite into the strawberry, a single bite itself is enough to take make you feel Ectastic.. The juicy, delicious, sweet, sour tastes pampering your taste buds makes you feel royal for sure:-) 

So, if you guys want that royal feeling, don't miss to eat the wild berry fruit widely available.

Now, it's just not about taste but strawberries are loaded with plenty of healthy nutrients and maximum antioxidants.

Being another excellent source of Vitamin C, including strawberries in your daily diet will help in preventing damage of tissues and also the protein in the lens of the eyes are protected from the harsh UV rays of the Sun. In this way strawberries prevent the risk of developing Cataract. Vitamin C has a double role in our body, as a Vitamin and an antioxidant. So all foods containing Vitamin C will protect your body from many health hazards. 

Vitamin C improve your immunity and thus forms a shield around you and prevent microorganisms attacking you either internally or externally, Ha..this just reminded me the Baahubali(An epic movie in telugu) fighting scene where Ballaladeva used a swaying weapon(which stretches upto a long distance) to fight with enemies..You guys can just think and imagine Vitamin C  acting as that weapon in your body to fight with the microorganisms:-)

I too have got to eat a  lot of these strawberries to prevent wrinkles on my face;-) as Vitamin C will act as a natural anti-wrinkle. When I say to prevent wrinkles on my face, don.t assume that I'm 50 years or above.future ke liye plan karna bhai..Abhi se start kare tho thab  tak healthy skin rehega(have to plan for future from now itself ..Right..So we have to start eating healthy stuff to have healthy skin and body at older age) 

Struggling with extra fat deposited in your body and have been cautious of what you are eating nowadays!! Happily gulp the strawberries without any guilt as they are low in fat, low in calories, excess in fibre, low sodium as well as low sugar. Wonderful! Isn't it.. when we get delicious and tasty food for weight loss :-)

Folate in these attractive and tempting berries is also abundant, might be there is a connection in this way to women and strawberries more than men, as folate is excellent during preconception which helps in improving fertility  as well as during the early months of pregnancy folate protects the developing fetus from neural tube defects. Before all the Men just stare at women enjoying strawberries, do have your share of this lovely fruit as the folate content in it helps in lowering your high homocysteine levels which are quite dangerous for your heart and may provoke heart attack if present in very high levels. Got my point:-)

Strawberries are a medium source of Potassium and low sodium which makes these fruits friendly for  Hypertensives as potassium helps in regulating  blood pressure.

Now, the curtain raiser for the super nutrients in Strawberries, ' Antioxidants'.. Plenty of antioxidants like Ellagic acid, Flavonoids(Quercetin, Kaempferol), Anthocyanins, Lutein,anti- Zeathanthin are found in Strawberries. If you start thinking, how these complicated names are going to help your health. Check this!!

Ellagic acid has a powerful effect of suppressing the cancer cells growth, and Flavonoids help in lowering LDL cholesterol  which is a Villain of all the good cholesterol in your body, so these flavonoids acts as Baahubali( Hero) and fights with LDL:-)   Not only that, Flavonoids also helps in preventing you from the metabolic disease,  Type 2 Diabetes, by reducing the oxidative damage of your cells caused by some weird Villains like Kaalikeya(wild Villain). Polyphenols in strawberries calm down the sugar spikes that occur in diabetics or when normal people eats lots of simple sugar loaded diets. Flavonoids act as anti-inflammatory agents and thus help you overcome many inflammatory conditions like Arthritis.

Anthocyanin's helps in pulling out all your lazy fat dozing happily in your body and stimulates them to get metabolised. This is an Awesome property.

Abundance of Vitamin K and Magnesium makes Strawberries another reason to include in your daily diet. Strawberries are also known to help you to store all the memories in your brain and recollect whenever you need them( I mean it helps to improve your memory)

Fascinated with long, shiny, thick and lustrous hair as shown on TV advertisements, and also naturally manicured nails?? You gotto eat strawberries regularly as the Biotin in it helps in nourishing both hair and nails.

Nitrate which promotes blood flow and supplies oxygen to all our cells and thus helps in a well established metabolic rate, as all the cells will be active enough after getting their bread and function with full energy:-)

Cancer-  Antioxidants have recently gained importance just because of their role in preventing the growth of cancer cells. When strawberries are fully loaded with antioxidants, obviously they will play a great role in preventing cancer too.

Huh.. That was quite a long list of health benefits of the delicious Strawberries.

Have a good day..See you with another interesting post.

Bye..I gotto  go to the grocery store to buy a big basket of Strawberries and keep them in my refrigerator so that I and my family will have our daily dose of such a healthy and tasty fruit:-)