Three bananas a day against stroke

  Another discovery in the field of stroke prevention. The use of three bananas a day can significantly reduce the risk of stroke, as scientists have found. However, we should remember that bananas are among the most high-calorie vegetables.

Eat one banana   for breakfast, one for lunch and one for dinner, to provide your body with a sufficient amount of potassium. This will help reduce the risk of clots in the blood and developing against the background of stroke by 21%. To such conclusion the British and Italian researchers, who are absolutely convinced that with the help of bananas can prevent hundreds of thousands of cases stroke .

However, not one bananas   rich in potassium, so if you do not particularly enjoy this fruit, something to do on a serious effort is required. The considerable amount of this substance is available in foods such as spinach, nuts, milk, fish and lentils.

On the health benefits of bananas mentioned before. Previous studies have shown that these fruits are very important in controlling blood pressure, which also plays an important role in stroke prevention . However, these findings were not always permanent. This time the British and Italian researchers have decided to summarize all the research on the nutritional properties bananas That it was carried out, starting from the 1960s to the present day. And on the basis of this vast information was derived average.

Thus, the daily intake of foods containing at least 1 600 mg of potassium (by the way, is more than two times less than the official recommended adult dose) is already able to reduce the risk of 21% stroke . In one banana contains 500 mg of potassium. However, we should not forget that bananas are high-calorie fruit, so we need to calculate the total number of calories that we consume every day, along with bananas.

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