Bananas Good For You

The banana is a fruit spread and appreciated. But there who he lacks, convinced that its sweetness is fattening. But wrong: here 6 good reasons to eat bananas and gain health .

Soft, doughy, invigorating: at home or outdoors, the banana is a convenient and delicious snack . To those who avoid it, fearing perhaps that eat obligations to deal with the scale, we provide six reasons to reconsider.
 

1. The banana excellent mineralizing: contains potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium. Eating a banana before breakfast, mid-morning or afternoon snack is a good way to replenish the reserves of minerals, which especially in the summer, with profuse sweating, may be impoverished.
2. The banana is a tasty synthesis of vitamins: beta-carotene (precursor of vitamin A), vitamin C, as well as vitamins B1, B2 and B6, crucial for the proper functioning of the brain and energy production. 
3. The banana is rich in tryptophan, an amino acid that, precisely because of the vitamin B6, is transformed into serotonin, the neurotransmitter of the Club, with the resulting cascade of soothing effects on the nervous system and the mood stabilizers and the sleep-wake rhythm. Given that also benefits the regulation of appetite, you can really treat the banana, consumed outside meals, a real antidote to nervous hunger pangs.
4. The banana is a blend of fibers, active in stimulating intestinal functions and useful to control the weight.
5. banana is suitable for those who suffer from digestive problems such as heartburn and gastroesophageal reflux: his fleshy pulp acts as a natural emollient, reduces irritation of the mucous membranes and even healing of small ulcers.
6. The banana possesses virtues tonic and repairing of tissues subjected to intense physical stress, as well as substances necessary for sugar metabolism and functioning of the muscles (such as the aforementioned vitamin B1), which make a snack also perfect for sportsmen.

The banana contains sugars yes, but next to all these valuable substances and still in proportions virtuous. To prevail is fructose, which has a glycemic index significantly lower than the common table sugar (sucrose), followed by dextrose, and, specifically, sucrose.

The full flavor and nutritional richness of the banana are such that just one of these fruits to satisfy the palate and stomach. Unlikely that the same happens with other snacks (except of course our 8 healthy snacks that do not make you fat): as if a finger breaks hungry eat low-calorie, next meal our brain, detected the chemical signal of need real food and pacified from the previous sacrifice, will not stand much to supervise the quantity and quality of food.

So let us stop counting calories or satisfy old prejudices. There are excellent competitors to "nibbles" low-calorie but far from healthy that advertising would impose on us. The banana is an example healthy and very palatable.