Lemon
Lemon belongs to the citrus family, one of the richest fruits with vitamin B and vitamin C. These vitamins are known to have important benefits in the body. They contribute to the formation of red blood cells and antibodies. They contribute to the health of teeth, bones and gums, and strengthen the walls of blood vessels. Several forms can be served as refreshing juice, or added to some dishes, and you can also add drops of lemon juice to different types of authorities to give tasty taste of acid.
Lemon benefits
Lemon has great benefits if mixed with warm water and taken daily in the early morning and during daytime, the following are the most important benefits:
- Very useful for stomach and improve digestion: It helps to regulate the exit of food from the stomach and facilitate digestion, and contributes to the expulsion of toxins from the body, and reduce the burning of the stomach and nausea and bloating by gas disposal, also works as an activator of the liver and contribute to stimulate the production of bile.
- Strengthen the immune system: Because it contains vitamin C, which strengthens the body, it is resistant to colds and cough, and contributes to the reduction of symptoms of asthma and respiratory infections and symptoms of allergies, and provides the body energy and increase its activity, and contributes to better absorption of more iron from food.
- Moisturizing the skin and cleans the body: It contributes to moisturizing the skin and maintain freshness, especially in the summer, because of the loss of the body minerals and water as a result of sweating, and thanks to the presence of vitamin C contributes to the production of collagen, which rejuvenates the skin and rid of wrinkles, and because it contains antioxidants works to cleanse It also cleanses the body by resisting the toxins and putting them out of the urinary system, inhibits the bacteria that cause infections of the urinary system, works to expel worms and gastrointestinal tracts, and leads urine and wastes.
- Improve brain function: Because it contains high levels of potassium and magnesium stimulates the nerves and brain, as well as helps to increase concentration and reduce stress, tension and anxiety.
- Combating cancer: Because it contains antioxidants as well as its ability to equate acidity in the body, and fights different types of cancer.
- Diabetics and those suffering from high blood pressure: because of its great ability to improve the level of digestion in the stomach, especially for fats and carbohydrates, reduces the level of sugar in the blood, and also works on insulin activity, and improves the high proportion of vitamin C because diabetes patients suffer from low levels This is because high blood sugar is an obstacle in the process of absorption. Antioxidants protect against high blood pressure.
- Useful in weight loss: because it gives a sense of satiety and resist hunger, and helps digestion, and the kidneys store fat if there is not enough water to get rid of them, and thanks to drink water and lemon and its ability to expel toxins are converted to fat and energy, By exercising. The water drink and lemon wonderful half-lemon in a cup of water and put a slice of lemon inside the cup and add warm water to him because warm water helps to facilitate the digestion, and the amount of water needed by the body of water and lemon to lose weight equivalent to half a liter a day to Side exercise.
Lemon peel is used in weight loss, through the age of approximately a kilo of lemon seeds and after finishing take the crusts and boiled with a large amount of water, and after the mixture cools the lemon juice is added to the crusts with water, and drinking from the hours of waking up from sleep Before each meal, caution must be taken of lemons in the case of gastric ulcer patients who are allergic to citric acid.