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Old June 2nd, 2018 #1
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Default 20 Amazing Facts About Bananas That Might Surprise You

20 Amazing Facts about Bananas You Won’t Believe


Everybody loves bananas, that’s a fact. However, besides its look and taste we don’t know much about it. So it’s time to find out a few new things about your favorite fruit.



1. DNA

Did you know that humans actually share half of their DNA with bananas? Imagine a half banana man. 🙂



2. Radiation Alert

Bananas are also radioactive. In case you feel like you want to eat 50 bananas, you should know that it will give you the same dose of radiation as a dental x-ray.



3. Water

Similar to human body, the water percentage is also high in this fruit. In fact, bananas are composed of 75% water.



4. Red and Green

Bananas were originally red and green. The yellow ones you can buy today are a mutant strain that was discovered in 1836.



5. Hangover

They are very useful products since they can help cure and prevent hangovers. 🙂



6. Health Hazard

Slipping on bananas has a huge history. In the early 1900s it was an actual health hazard.



7. Stress

If you have to deal with a lot of stress, consuming more bananas can really help you. They are considered a natural cure to reduce anxiety.



8. Ethylene

Bananas are picked when they’re green and hard. Before selling them, ethylene is used to ripen them.



9. Banana Museum

There is a Banana Club Museum in California, filled with 170,000 different banana items.



10. `Because I’m happy’ 🙂

The fruit contains a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and make you feel happier.



11. Workout

Due to containing a lot of nutrients and sugar, just two bananas contain enough energy for an intense 90 minutes workout.




12. How To Conceive A Boy

According to a study, women who eat more bananas during conception are most likely to have a boy.



13. Heart Attack

Among many other benefits, bananas lower the risk of heart attacks, strokes and cancer.



14. Overdose

Dying from potassium overdose is only possible if you would consume at least 480 bananas.



15. Origins

Bananas originated in Southeast Asia and South Pacific. Today, however, they are grown in over 100 countries.



16. World’s Tallest Herbs

The banana trees are in fact the world’s tallest herbs. They can grow up to 20 feet and have no wooden stem.



17. Large Clusters

The plant grows off the main stems in large clusters, which often weigh over 100 pounds.



18. Best-selling

In American chain of hypermarkets called Walmart, bananas tend to be the best-selling items.



19. Vitamins

Banana is considered a very healthy food. It has no fat, cholesterol or sodium, while being packedwith Vitamin C and B6, Potassium and Manganese.



20.




In case you were wondering, a cluster of bananas is called a hand, and a single banana is known as a finger.




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Old June 2nd, 2018 #2
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BBC News | Health | Two bananas a day keep blood pressure at bay

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Two bananas a day can help control high blood pressure, offering a cheap alternative to expensive drugs, according to scientists.
The finding supports earlier research that potassium-rich food such as bananas could play a role in controlling blood pressure.

A 1997 study suggested people would have to eat five bananas a day to have half the effect of a blood pressure-controlling pill.

Now researchers in India have reported that blood pressure fell by 10% in people who ate two bananas daily for a week.


Billion-dollar industry


The study involved human volunteers at the Kasturba medical college in Manipal in southern India.

It followed successful experiments in rats that showed that ripe and unripe bananas have compounds that can lower blood pressure.

Current drugs to lower hypertension, or high blood pressure, are called ACE-inhibitors. They are expensive and may produce side-effects such as dizziness.

They inhibit the action of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) which is responsible for forming a substance angiotensin-2 that constricts blood vessels and raises the pressure inside them.

The pharmaceutical trade in ACE-inhibitors is worth billions of dollars every year.

The Indian scientists report that natural compounds in bananas act in a manner similar to anti-hypertensive drugs in the Indian medical journal Current Science.

The Manipal team studied six popular banana varieties and found that all had ACE-inhibiting properties, though the ripened bananas had a stronger action than unripe ones.


Earlier studies


The 1997 study was carried out at Johns Hopkins University in the US.

Its findings focussed on the role played by potassium, a mineral known as an electrolyte. Potassium works with sodium to help regulate fluid balance.

The study suggested that a daily intake of 2,300 mg of potassium - about five bananas - may lower blood pressure by about half as much as drugs can.

Last August, the American Heart Association advised that people with high blood pressure should eat a diet high in minerals and low in fat.

Researchers on its nutrition committee put a group of 459 people with mild hypertension on three different types of diet over an eight-week period.

The first diet was a control; the second was high in fruit and vegetable and the third was low in fat and high in fruit and vegetables. All three diets were low in salt.

The researchers found that a diet rich in fruit and vegetables alone can reduce diastolic pressure by 1.1mm of mercury.

Fruit and vegetables with a high level of naturally occurring electrolytes - which also include magnesium and calcium - include bananas, raisins, potatoes and dates.
 
Old June 3rd, 2018 #3
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No. 2 of your OP is quite a shock. I did not know that.

No. 4 is hilarious because Xtians use the banana to claim it shows proof of intelligent design....not even researching the fact that the bananas we have today weren't cultivated in the wild before making that claim.

Had no idea they had that kind of effect on Blood Pressure, that's all interesting.

Whites are going to Latin America in droves from Europe since the Jews decided to flood it with Muzzers and nigs. We should see farming of bananas and other things in these tropical climates, and they should set up govt. and keep history from repeating itself if possible.

B6 is mentioned: it regulates serotonin and has huge effect on the nervous system. Part of why people are screwed up is not eating whole foods. Not exclusively why but it has added to a litany of probs for people who might otherwise be a great deal more healthy.
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