Amazing Health Benefits of Dates

Have you ever thought why many people prefer to break their fast by eating dates? It is because dates are an ideal fruit that has many health benefits. Owing to great health benefits of dates, many doctors recommend to have a little amount of dates daily. Even people suffering from diabetes can have 1-2 dates regularly, and believe us it will not increase your sugar level! Dates (also termed as crown of sweet fruits) are dry and commonly grown in Middle-East countries.

The fruit is used as the main ingredient in numerous dishes of the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisines. Dates have numerous nutritional benefits that are required by the body. A single dates contain about 24 calories and the good news is that it contains no cholesterol, so you can have the sweet fruit even if you are on a weight control program!

Check out the health benefits of dates:

For Healthy Heart:

Dates contains Potassium, as it helps to stabilize the functioning of heart muscles  and it also controls the blood pressure. Dates is a good medicine for alcohol addicts, it reduces the desire of taking alcohol.

Constipation: 

Dates have a laxative effect. People who suffer from constipation can soak dates in water overnight and can have it in the morning. Dates are a good source of protein, dietary fiber and essential nutrients. The fiber content that you can get in few grams of dates can help you to overcome the problem of constipation. 
 

Night blindness: 

Dates are rich in vitamin A and it also has antioxidant properties. Vitamin A is very necessary in protecting you against night blindness. 

Osteoporosis:

Nowadays, many people complain about joint pain and osteoporosis. Both these health problem occur when your body has low calcium levels. Dates have a good amount of calcium. Eating a few grams of dates can fulfill your daily calcium requirement and can help you treat osteoporosis and joint pain.

 

Pregnancy:

Dates are highly recommended for women who are pregnant and with low haemoglobin level. The fruit is rich in calcium, manganese, phosphorous and selenium. These minerals are very essential for proper growth of the foetus. Dates are an excellent source of iron. During pregnancy, dates can really do wonders to maintain your hemoglobin level. 

Digestion: 

Dates contains fiber, so it improves the digestive system of our body. It acts as a tonic for digestive system.
 

Intestinal disorders:

Dates have a good amount of calcium, vitamin B5, dietary fiber, vitamin B3, phosphorous, fats, potassium and copper. These vitamins are very beneficial in treating intestinal disorders. So, if you are suffering from intestinal disorders, start eating dates regularly. 

  

Tooth decay: 

Tooth decay is one problem that most of us suffer from. Dates can prevent tooth decay and dental plaque. It is because the fruit is rich in fluorine. This mineral is very effective to maintain healthy teeth.

Other Health Benefits of Dates:

• Wonderfully delicious, dates are one of the most popular fruits packed with an impressive list of essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that are required for normal growth, development and overall well-being.
  
  
• Fresh dates compose of soft, easily digestible flesh and simple sugars like fructose and dextrose. When eaten, they replenish energy and revitalize the body instantly. For these qualities, they are being used to break the fast during Ramadan month since ancient times. 
  
  
• The fruit is rich in dietary fiber, which prevents LDL cholesterol absorption in the gut. Additionally, the fiber works as a bulk laxative. It, thus, helps to protect the colon mucous membrane by decreasing exposure time and as well as binding to cancer-causing chemicals in the colon.
  
  
• They contain health benefiting flavonoid polyphenolic antioxidants known as tannins. Tannins are known to possess anti-infective, anti-inflammatory, and anti-hemorrhagic (prevent easy bleeding tendencies) properties. 
  
  
• They are moderate sources of vitamin-A (contains 149 IU per 100 g), which is known to have antioxidant properties and essential for vision. Additionally, it is also required maintaining healthy mucus membranes and skin. Consumption of natural fruits rich in vitamin A is known to help to protect from lung and oral cavity cancers.
  
  
• They compose antioxidant flavonoids such as ß-carotene, lutein, and zea-xanthin. These antioxidants found to have the ability to protect cells and other structures in the body from harmful effects of oxygen-free radicals. Thus, eating dates found to offer some protection from colon, prostate, breast, endometrial, lung, and pancreatic cancers.
  
  
• Zea-xanthin is an important dietary carotenoid that selectively absorbed into the retinal macula lutea, where it thought to provide antioxidant and protective light-filtering functions. It thus offers protection against age-related macular degeneration, especially in elderly populations. 
  
  
• Dates are an excellent source of iron, contains 0.90 mg/100 g of fruits (about 11% of RDI). Iron, being a component of hemoglobin inside the red blood cells, determines the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood.
  
  
• Further, they are very good in potassium. 100 g contains 696 mg or 16% of daily-recommended levels of this electrolyte. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that help controlling heart rate and blood pressure. They, thus, offers protection against stroke and coronary heart diseases.
  
  
• They are also rich in minerals like calcium, manganese, copper, and magnesium. Calcium is an important mineral that is an essential constituent of bone and teeth, and required by the body for muscle contraction, blood clotting, and nerve impulse conduction. Manganese is used by the body as a co-factor for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase. Copper is required for the production of red blood cells. Magnesium is essential for bone growth.
  
  
• Further, the fruit has adequate levels of B-complex group of vitamins as well as vitamin K. It contains very good amounts of pyridoxine (vitamin B-6), niacin, pantothenic acid, and riboflavin. These vitamins are acting as cofactors help body metabolize carbohydrates, protein, and fats. Vitamin K is essential for many coagulant factors in the blood as well as in bone metabolism.
  

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15 Health Tips for you

1.) Having trouble hearing someone at a party or on the phone? 
Use your right ear it's better at picking up rapid speech. But, the left is better at picking up music tones.
 
2.) If you need to relieve yourself BADLY, but you're not anywhere near a bathroom, fantasize about RELATIONS. That preoccupies your brain and distracts it.

  3.) If you've got an itch in your throat, scratch your ear. When the nerves in the ear get stimulated, they create a reflex in the throat that causes a muscle spasm, which cures the itch.

4.) Next time the doctor's going to give you an injection, COUGH as the needle is going in. The cough raises the level of pressure in your spinal canal, which limits the pain sensation as it tries to travel to your brain.

5.) If you ate a big meal and you're feeling full as you go to sleep, lay on your left side. That'll keep you from suffering from acid reflux it keeps your stomach lower than your esophagus, which will helps keep stomach acid from sliding up your throat.

 

6.) Clear a stuffed nose or relieve sinus pressure by pushing your tongue against the roof of your mouth then pressing a finger between your eyebrows. Repeat that for 20 seconds it causes the vomer bone to rock, which loosens your congestion and clears you up.

7.) If your hand falls asleep, rock your head from side to side. That'll wake your hand or arm up in less than a minute. Your hand falls asleep because of the nerves in your neck compressing so loosening your neck is the cure. If your foot falls asleep, that's governed by nerves lower in the body, so you need to stand up and walk around.

8.) You can stop a toothache by rubbing ice on the back of your hand, on the webbed area between your thumb and index finger. The nerve pathways there stimulate a part of the brain that blocks pain signals from your mouth.

9.) Stop a nose bleed by putting some cotton on your upper gums right behind the small dent below your nose and press against it hard. Most of the bleeding comes from the cartilage wall that divides the nose, so pressing there helps get it to stop.

10.) Nervous? Slow your heart rate down by blowing on your thumb. The vagus nerve controls your heart rate, and you can calm it down by breathing.

11.) You can prevent BRAIN FREEZE by pressing your tongue flat against the roof of your mouth, covering as much surface area as possible. Brain freeze happens because the nerves in the roof of your mouth get extremely cold, so your brain thinks your whole body is cold. It compensates by overheating which causes your head to hurt. By warming up the roof of your mouth, you'll chill your brain and feel better.

 

12.) Need to breathe underwater for a while? Instead of taking a huge breath, HYPERVENTILATE before you go under, by taking a bunch of short breaths. That'll trick your brain into thinking it has more oxygen, and buy you about 10 extra seconds.

13.) If you get all messed up on liquor, and the room starts spinning, put your hand on something stable. The reason: Alcohol dilutes the blood in the part of your ear called the cupula, which regulates balance. Putting your hand on something stable gives your brain another reference point, which will help make the world stop spinning.

14.) Got the hiccups? Press thumb and second finger over your eyebrows until the hiccups are over - usually, in a short while.

 
15.) Finally, this one's totally USELESS, but a nice trick. Have someone stick their arm out to the side, straight, palm down. Press down on his wrist with two fingers. He'll resist, and his arm will stay horizontal. Then, have him put his foot on a surface that's half an inch off the ground, like a stack of magazines, and do the trick again. Because his spine position is thrown off, his arm will fall right to his side, no matter how much he tries to resist.

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HOW TO SURVIVE HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE?

Let's say it's 6.00pm and you're going home (alone of course),after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles (8kms) from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself..!!

NOW HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE....!!

 

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.
The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

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Worse yet, sleep deprivation is killing you. Check out dangers of not getting enough sleep below.

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The Chinese have known about the medicinal benefits of green tea since ancient times, using it to treat everything from headaches to depression. And it states that green tea has been used as a medicine in China for at least 4,000 years. 

Infact I'm a green tea drinker. Not for the love of the taste — no way! I drink it because I’m told it’s good for me…or, to be honest, the real reason I drink it is because I believe it help keeps my weight in check. But recently I decided to look into it a bit deeper and see what are all these other benefits of green tea people talk of.

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Dr. Jonas Salk the Inventor of Polio Vaccine

Well before you go on to find who he is, first thank him. Thank him for what? for saving your life. Well he is Dr. Jonas Salk the Inventor of Polio Vaccine. His invention may or may not be a great thing, but whats great about him is he did not patent the vaccine and make personal profit. If he had patented the vaccine, he would have been a very rich man. But millions of poor children would have been deprived of the life saving vaccine. When he was asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?". The world celebrates bill gates, steve jobs, etc for giving us high tech gadgets, but here is a man who has saved many of our lives but we don’t even remember him now, How sad.                      Share the post with your friends to promote this awesome Dr.

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