Saturday, 28 January 2012
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The Master of All Fruits
That would be: Dates.
The kind of benefits one gains from consuming that fruit are abundant (most likely countless) and here's a list of some of said benefits:
1- Dates prevent:
a- Tooth-decay.
b- From having protruding eyes.
c- Strokes as well as diseases of the heart.
d- Hemorrhage during pregnancy and at least reduces it after childbirth.
2- Protect against:
a- Arteriosclerosis.
b- Cancer.
c- Food poisoning.
d- Hemorrhoids.
3- Help with:
a- Lowering the level of one's cholestrol.
b- Calming one's nerves. Restlessness. Nervousness.
c- Iron-defiency (Anemia)
d- Shortness of breath and Asthma (whether in the form of a paste or having it boiled in water.)
e- Diuretic.
f- Lowering blood-pressure.
g- One's bowel movements.
h- Allergies.
i- Improving one's hear-muscles.
j- Getting contractions in a regular pace and, generally, having a smooth-enough delivery.
k- Since it also contains estrogen, it helps the ovaries function properly.
l- Fatigue.
4- Cure:
a- Rheumatic diseases.
b- Inflammations: Skin, Mucous membranes, Joints.
c- Heart palpitations.
d- Chapped-lips.
e- Loss of appetite
f- One's inability to concentrate.
g- Rickets (in children) and osteomalacia (in adults) which are two forms of a metabolic bone disease.
h- Diseases of the digestive system. All kinds of them. Intestinal parasites, included. (See tip below)
i- Dryness of both the skin and coronia of the eye.
j- Exhaustion of the eyes.
k- Hair loss.
l- Sexual impotence.
m- Common cold.
n- It clears-up the skin (from red-patches, etc.)
o- Heart-burn.
p- Gum diseases.
q- The capillaries, the muscles and cartilage from being weak.
r- Nyctalopia: The inability to see during the night.
s- Insomnia.
Not to mention that dates cleanse the liver and lungs and, cleans the kidneys (Kidney-stones no more.); and, it slows-down the signs of aging.
Many of the aforementioned benefits are the direct result of Leveling one's PH back to the way it should (reason for the imbalance seems to be the bad kind of carbs: bread and the like.) In general, dates are key for overall well-being.Tip: Have 7, twice: Early in the morning before anything else and, after sunset.
Caution! People who are over-weight and/or have diabetes should check with their doctor first. (Albeit from what I read they shouldn't consume them at all.)
Hopefully this post is helpful. And even though it's probably a given, the information listed above are not of my own findings.
Have you ever had a date before? Do you like dates? Do you have a date-friendly recipe?
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I like dates. I'd like to go on one =P
I love dates. They're delicious! I usually put them in my salads.
I thought you were gonna say Richard SImmons
You forgot the most important thing: they taste delicious. Like healthy candy.
My great-grandparents used to give me prunes and dates all the time when I was a child! I don't think I've had a whole date since then, I don't remember liking them very much, along with figs.
Maybe I'll try and change that.
They're one of the key fruits used in iftar during the month of Ramadan.
oh damn, I should go get some dates!! :)
They served dates for dessert when I took a cruise on the Nile. They were pretty good.
they look scary, but i want to try them
[citation needed]
I'm a huge fan of dates and use them in raw foods desserts and nut/fruit bars frequently. I also will have one or two instead of candy when I'm craving sweets. But that is a suspiciously long list that makes me wonder about the extent of research done with dates in those areas. And they DO have sugar. They're so sweet its hard for me to imagine eating 14 a day!!
I remember trying dates once in the 5th grade and not liking them.
But then, during my senior year of high school, a good friend of mine baked these sugar cookies with dates inside of them, and oh my goodness, they were delicious!
I like them. It would be nice if they were more readily available in the US.
@KJLavender@xanga - I'm glad that you're a fan of them. However, citation is not needed, since this is the internet and the purpose behind me sharing this post was to invoke people's interest in them. Don't get me wrong: it is my duty to share real information; it's just that it is the reader's job to do their own research after having them be interested in consuming said fruit.
It is a well-known fact that the body is an organism in which everything has its place; its reason for existence. A lack in some nutrient does have its consequences, and those consequences lead to others like the ripple effect. Hence why leveling one's PH can solve so many issues, etc.
Anyway, most of the research done for this post was in another language, but you can find plenty of English sites mentioning the same benefits. For this post, I had to read several sites, and dismiss the repetitive information and then do a bit of my own ( ex. when learned that it levels one's PH levels, I had to see what that actually meant; what does happen when it's not normal-- which turned-out to be plenty, to say the least.)
Here are a few to get you started, if you're interested: 1, 2 , 3, 4.
Also, what I haven't mentioned in the post is that a person can live healthfully just by consuming dates and having milk on the side. Yes.
As for having it hard to imagine anyone eating 14 a day, well, there are just so many variables here but basically, it's subjective.
Finally, as I've said in the post, those are just some of the benefits; not all. And remember, when people are suspicious of something it's more than likely because they're uneducated/new about/to it.
wtf is a date?
i think i need to start adding these to my diet
my favorite snack is dates stuffed with raw walnuts or almonds!! yay!!
Dried dates are really good in oatmeal with a little bit of cinnamon. Since they're already so sweet, I don't even need to add sugar once I stir them into the oats.
@KliffyTaicho@xanga - you deserve an award for that comment, hilarious
@NYPr1ncess@xanga - oh thank you. I only wish I hadn't made that typo. You're from NY?
Dates are a staple food in Middle East where Dh is from. I don't like dates but I try to eat a couple every night at Isha when we break our fast in Ramadan. Dh loves them..
I LOVE dates. They look weird, but I crave them sometimes. I don't like the pitted ones though (aka the cheap Dole/Del Monte ones). They don't taste as fresh. The seed isn't that hard to get out. The good ones are so freaking expensive though! If it weren't for that I'd eat way more.
They can be used as a healthy, natural alternative for table sugar lots of times.