Hello dear community. Today I want to share with you a fruit that I always use in my dishes, juices, smoothies and even in my daily life as: hair, skin, affections ... in short a miraculous and powerful fruit that some people ignore about their incredible benefit in the body human.
I'm talking about the "lemon" a fruit with an incredible historical medicinal use.
A citric fruit of acid flavor, full of health properties with significant contributions of vitamins B1 and B2, of minerals such as calcium, iron, phosphorus and healthy fibers.
Did you know that lemon is one of the most powerful antioxidants that exists in mother nature, and that it contains amounts of benefits for your health?
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The lemon is a fruit rich in vitamins C, and other antioxidants, welfare that facilitates its content in ascorbic acid amounts.
Historically, lemon was used to prevent a disease called "scurvy" that occurs in people with vitamin C deficiency.
One of its main distinction is in its powerful antioxidant properties, which act in the prevention of negative activities of free radicals.
Some of the antioxidants it contains are: flavonoids rutin, hisperidin, naringenin and lutein. Antioxidants needed for people with high requirements of vitamin C, people who smoke, or with diabetes, asthma, allergies, stress ...
Consuming daily lemon helps us to have a healthier external appearance, since it is special for the skin, hair and nails. In addition to contributing to the maintenance of the arteries, prevention of hypertension, increase the life of good cholesterol by preventing its oxidation.
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It also favors digestion and helps metabolize fats.
Although there are many fruits with medicinal properties, I dare say for the effect it has caused my health, without a doubt that lemon occupies the first place, both for its curative and preventive actions.
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The lemon is therefore a miraculous fruit!
