Health Benefits of Lemon
Lemons are containing nutrients high in vitamin C, fiber, and various beneficial plant compounds, which are responsible for health benefit such as weight loss and reduce the risk of heart disease, anemia, kidney stones, digestive issues, and cancer.
Here below are health benefits of lemons.
- Help Weight Loss: Due to its potential beneficial effects on metabolism, satiety and hydration, lemon can improve weight loss.
- Prevent digestive issues:The main fiber in lemons is pectin, a form of soluble fiber linked to multiple health benefits, these soluble fiber can improve gut health and slow the digestion of sugars and starches.
- Prevent Kidney disease: Kidney disease are hard deposits made of minerals and salts that form inside the kidneys. They are quite common, and who have them often get them repeatedly. Citric acid may help prevent kidney disease by increasing urine volume and creating a less favorable environment for kidney stone formation.
- Reduce the risk of heart disease: lemons and several beneficial plant are high in heart-healthy vitamin compounds that may lower cholesterol. However, it’s not only the vitamin c that is making it to be useful for the heart. The fiber and plant compounds in lemons could also strong to lower some risk factors for heart disease
- Prevent Anemia: Iron insufficiency anemia is common. It happens when you don’t get sufficient iron from the foods you eat. Lemons contain some iron, but they primarily prevent anemia by improving the intake of iron from plant foods. The body get iron from meat, chicken, and fish very easily, while iron from plant sources are scary. However, the consumption of vitamin C and citric acid may increase protection against anemia by ensuring that you consume as much iron as possible from the diet.
- Reduce Cancer Risk: a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables may help prevent some cancers and people who eat the most citrus fruit have a lower risk of cancer. Many compounds from lemons kill cancer cells. The nutrients components that are found in lemons such as limonene and naringenin may have anticancer potential.
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