Amazing facts on fruits:

·       Fruit Facial to Beat Summer Heat

If you don’t have the sufficient amount or time to spend on skin care then follow these natural secrets for your flawless skin.

In order to nourish your skin, use olive oil as it is really good, and hence it will reinforce and nourish the skin and also regenerates and helps in protection against the impurities. The olive oil can also be used from head to toe.

Take Avocado which is little bit ripe, and make it as mask. Crush the avocado and put it on your face and hence it nourishes the skin. During summer, mix an avocado with egg yolk for a face mask as it protects our face from sun damages.

Banana is used to remove the blackheads. Rub it on your nose and it will make the blackheads pop out more easily.

Blend the cucumber with sandalwood powder and curd using a blender. Apply in face it will relieve the sun burns and will even reduce your sun tan.

Make pulp of a tomato and mix it with honey to make a paste. Apply the face pack. This serves as natural bleach for your face and brightens up your face.

·      8 fruits to beat the summer heat

Watermelon is the most common fruit in the Philippines during summer season and is called as the thirst quenching fruit. They are rounding, oblong, or even square. Watermelons can also have yellow flesh.

Watermelon is packed with some of the most important antioxidants that are found in nature that helps in the conditions like colon cancer, asthma, diabetes, and arthritis.

It is rich in vitamin C and vitamin A. It also contains concentrated source of the carotenoid, lycopene. The antioxidant function of lycopene helps to protect cells and other structures in the body from oxygen damage-has been linked in human research to prevention of heart disease.

Watermelon is also rich in the B vitamins necessary for energy production. The cooling fruit is exceptionally high in coralline, an amino acid our bodies use to make another amino acid, arginine, which is used in the urea cycle to remove ammonia from the body, and by the cells lining our blood vessels to make nitric oxide.

Nitric oxide not only relaxes blood vessels, lowering high blood pressure, it is the compound whose production is enhanced by Viagra to prevent erectile dysfunction. Arginine has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity in obese type 2 diabetic patients with insulin resistance.

·       Watermelon-A high antioxidant Fruit

Watermelon is the most common fruit in the Philippines during summer season and is called as the thirst quenching fruit. They are rounding, oblong, or even square. Watermelons can also have yellow flesh.

Watermelon is packed with some of the most important antioxidants that are found in nature that helps in the conditions like colon cancer, asthma, diabetes, and arthritis.

It is rich in vitamin C and vitamin A. It also contains concentrated source of the carotenoid, lycopene. The antioxidant function of lycopene helps to protect cells and other structures in the body from oxygen damage-has been linked in human research to prevention of heart disease.

Watermelon is also rich in the B vitamins necessary for energy production. The cooling fruit is exceptionally high in coralline, an amino acid our bodies use to make another amino acid, arginine, which is used in the urea cycle to remove ammonia from the body, and by the cells lining our blood vessels to make nitric oxide.

Nitric oxide not only relaxes blood vessels, lowering high blood pressure, it is the compound whose production is enhanced by Viagra to prevent erectile dysfunction. Arginine has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity in obese type 2 diabetic patients with insulin resistance.

·       Hazelnuts-An Essential Nutrient for optimum health

Hazelnuts are also called as cob nuts or filberts. These are very rich in energy and contains large amount of nutrients that are essential for optimum health. The monounsaturated fatty acids present in these nuts helps to prevent coronary artery disease and strokes by favoring healthy blood lipid profile.

Hazels are rich in dietary fiber, vitamins, and minerals that are packed with numerous health promoting phyto-chemicals, which protects you from various diseases and cancers.

Hazels are rich in foliate that help to prevent megaloblastic anemia and most importantly, neural tube defects in the newborn. It also rich in vitamin E, a powerful lipid soluble antioxidant, helps in maintaining the integrity of cell membrane of mucus membranes and skin by protecting it from harmful oxygen free radicals.

The oil of this nut have nutty aroma and has an excellent astringent properties. It also helps to protect the skin from dryness. The oil can also be used in cooking, and as base oil in traditional medicines in massage therapy, aromatherapy, in pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry.

·       Consuming Tropical Fruits -Be Smart Away From Diseases

The tropical fruits such as mango, bananas, coconuts, or papayas are available in all winter long. The following are the some of the benefits of the tropical fruits.

Coconuts

Coconut is used as the sweet topping on German chocolate cake, and its water is a sterile source of clean water, useful for survival hydration. Beside this it has the same level of electrolytic balance human blood. During pacific World War II, coconut water was frequently used in the field as an emergency plasma transfusion for wounded combatants. This water is low in salts and sugars and high in potassium.

Mangos teen

The alpha-mangos tin, an antioxidant found in mangos teen, can cause cell death in leukemia cells, effectively treating the disease. Mangos teen is also said to have powerful anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antifungal, and antiseptic properties.

Avocado

Avocados are rich in folic acid that helps to prevent some kind of birth defects. When you consume avocado with other vegetables, you absorb more nutrients than you would have from eating the vegetables alone.

Mango

Mango contains Vitamin A and Vitamin C, as well as some B-Vitamins, omega-3 fatty acids, polyphenols & beta-carotene.

Logan

Logan berries are said to have relaxing properties that lowers your stress levels. It is also said to have anti-cancer, antioxidant, and liver-protective properties. It also contains high levels of iron, potassium, and large amounts of vitamins A and C.

·      Five Fruits to Eat Daily to Have Healthy Diet

Blueberries

Blueberries are rich in antioxidants that help to prevent a host of maladies. The pigments of this plant make blueberries as blue guard against heart disease, cancer and age-related blindness and memory loss. This also helps to prevent urinary tract infections, which keep bacteria from sticking to bladder walls.

Olive oil

The olive fruit helps to lower the bad LDL cholesterol and raises the good HDL cholesterol, due to the presence of mono saturated fats. Olive oil is also packed with antioxidants called phenols that may protect your artery walls from cholesterol.

Broccoli

Broccoli is also called as cancer fighter, due to its sulfur compounds. These compounds help our genes to boost production of enzymes that detoxify potentially cancer-causing compounds. Consuming more broccolis reduces risk of breast and lung cancer to stomach and colon cancer.

Yogurt

Yogurt is an excellent source of bone-building calcium, but its real strength present in beneficial bacteria, called as probiotics, that helps in growth of harmful bacteria in your gut. Consuming yogurt reduces inflammatory bowel disease, ulcers, urinary tract infections, and vaginal yeast infections.

Beans

Beans are good for your heart, due to its soluble fiber, which soaks up cholesterol and disposes it before it sticks to artery walls.

·      The Healing Fruit-Pineapple

If you want to make your body boost in health and healing then you need to add some fresh pineapple

And pineapple juice in your diet. This tropical fruit is high in the enzyme called brome lain and the antioxidant vitamin C, both plays a major role in the body’s healing process.

Brome lain is a natural anti-inflammatory that permits many health benefits and encourages healing. Brome lain is also very effective in treating bruises, sprains and strains by reducing swelling, tenderness and pain. This powerful anti-inflammatory effect can also help to relieve rheumatoid arthritis symptoms and reduce postoperative swelling.

Additionally, the Bromelain contained in pineapple also relieves indigestion. The enzyme present in this fruit helps to break down the amino acid bonds into proteins, which tends to promotes good digestion.

Pineapples also provide vitamin C too, a commonly known antioxidant that protects the body from free radical damage and also boosts the immune system. It also helps to build and repair bodily tissue and promotes wound healing. Vitamin C also helps to metabolize the fats and cholesterol, absorb iron, and synthesize amino acids and collagen. It also decreases the severity of colds and infections.

Vitamin C can also reduce the risk of gingivitis and periodontal disease and hence increases the ability of connective tissue to repair itself, vitamin C also increases the body’s ability to fight invading bacteria and other toxins that contribute to gum disease.

If you want to enhance your body in a natural way healing mechanisms then have pineapple in your diet. Choose the fresh fruit because it has the most healing properties.

·      Fruits Rich in Hemoglobin

Pomegranate

Pomegranate fruit contains three times of antioxidants of green tea. It contains vitamins A, C, E, folic acid and iron. Intake of this fruit supplies iron to blood and reduce the symptoms caused due to lower hemoglobin. Pomegranate is very good for diabetic patients too.

Date

Dates or dried dates are nutritious to the human body. Along with iron they contain Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, and vitamins A and B. Dates can also boost your energy level too.

Watermelon

Watermelon  provides high levels of protein, Carbohydrates, Potassium, Vitamin C and B.As the iron content in watermelon is high it boosts the energy level .

Berries

Berries such as Blackberries, Blueberries, Cranberries, and Strawberries are rich in iron content. These fruits along with Iron contain lots of Antioxidants, Vitamin A, and E.

·      Fruits having low sugar content

The fruits which are low in sugar are some of the highest in nutritional value, including antioxidants and other phytonutrients. These include:

• ·         The fruits such as Blueberries, strawberry, raspberries, blackberries, huckleberries, salmon berries, and gooseberries are all packed with antioxidants and vitamins. These fruits are low in sugar content.
• ·         Cherries have antioxidant in similar to berries. They have a bit sugar content, but are still very low-cab and are an excellent source of fiber.
• ·         Mostly citrus fruits contain high sugar content, but grapefruits don’t. The effect on blood sugar is less than apples and pears at only 25.
• ·         The stone fruits are a good dose of vitamin C and fiber.
• ·         Figs are also low in sugar as strawberries, and are packed with fiber.
• ·         Lemon and Lime are sour citrus fruits that are low in sugar
• ·         Peach fruit are sweeter but it contains only 9g of sugar per serving amount.