Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

πŸ‹ How Lemon Water Became a Daily Game-Changer After My Morning Jog

 

There’s something deeply satisfying about finishing a morning jog. The fresh air, the sweat, the sense of accomplishment—it’s a powerful way to start the day. But there’s one small ritual I added afterward that’s made a surprisingly big impact: drinking lemon water.

Yes, it’s simple. Just warm water and half a lemon. But after doing it consistently every morning post-jog, I’ve noticed real benefits in my body, mood, and energy. And science actually backs it up.

Here’s what lemon water has done for me—and what it could do for you too.


πŸ’§ Rehydration That Feels Good

After jogging, your body is naturally low on fluids. Lemon water rehydrates me quickly, but it’s more than just quenching thirst. It’s refreshing, slightly zesty, and gives me a clean, awake feeling—better than plain water, and definitely better than sugary drinks.

πŸ’‘ Tip: Use warm water for a gentler effect on your stomach.

⚡ A Natural Energy Boost

I used to reach for coffee right after running. Now? Lemon water first. I’ve noticed I feel more alert and energized without the jittery crash. There’s something about the scent and tang that stimulates the senses.

And according to research, vitamin C (which lemons are loaded with) helps reduce fatigue and supports immune health.

🍽️ Digestion That Starts Smoothly

This was one of the first things I noticed: less bloating and better digestion throughout the day. Lemon water gets your digestive system moving, especially when taken on an empty stomach. It’s a gentle nudge to your metabolism.

🧴 Skin That Glows

Over time, I’ve seen improvements in my skin—fewer breakouts, a more even tone, and a subtle brightness. Vitamin C is a known supporter of collagen production, which helps your skin stay firm and youthful.

⚖️ It Supports My Fitness Goals

Drinking lemon water fills me up just enough to avoid early-morning snacking, and it’s a clean, zero-calorie habit that supports my weight management routine. It also helps the body detox naturally, which is great after a sweaty jog.

⚠️ A Few Things to Keep in Mind

Tooth Enamel: Lemon is acidic. I always drink it through a straw and rinse my mouth with plain water afterward to protect my teeth.

Not Too Strong: I use just half a lemon per glass. Stronger mixes can irritate your stomach if you're sensitive.

My Morning Lemon Water Routine

  • Wake up early, jog for 30–45 minutes.
  • Come home, cool down, stretch.
  • Squeeze ½ lemon into a mug of warm water.
  • Drink slowly, then wait 15–20 minutes before breakfast.

Final Thoughts

Drinking lemon water daily after my morning jog has become more than a habit—it’s a ritual that makes me feel refreshed, focused, and ready to take on the day. If you're looking for a small, natural change with real benefits, I genuinely recommend giving it a try.

Simple. Natural. Effective.



Monday, June 20, 2016

Want to remove stomach fat? Drink this before bedtime!

Fat is sort of hard to be removed without a consistent diet especially stomach and legs fat. I found out a way to make it, but you need to be consistent. This is better than joining the fat loss program in beauty studio and etc. Just drink this to keep fit and at the same time diminish some fat from your body!

Before you go to bed, you should blend this follows:

  • Parsley
  • Cinnamon
  • Lemon
  • Vinegar
  • Ginger

To make it more effective cut off your dinner and replace your dinner with this perfect mixture and you will lose the unwanted weight very quickly.
remove stomach fat - cinnamon
remove stomach fat - ginger

remove stomach fat - lemon
remove stomach fat - vinegar
remove stomach fat - parsley

Monday, March 14, 2016

When my little one down with flu & cough

As a mother, what anxious us is when our little one are not feeling well. What we are going to do when they are flu and cough. Now i have my solution and i have less headache. Let me share with you how am i dealing with it...

I found a secret recipe... if you heard about essential oil called "Thieves" as described in young living, Thieves® essential oil is a powerful combination of Clove, Lemon, Cinnamon, Eucalyptus Radiata, and Rosemary essential oils for an aromatic blend that fills any space with a rich, spicy aroma.

During the normal days, for antibacteria and to create an environment of peace and security purposes, i will diffuse 6–8 drops of Thieves, once everyday.

However, When they are infected with flu and cough i will diffuse 2-3 times a day. It works miracle, usually they will recover within 2 - 3 days.

On top of that, the benefits of Thieves oil also including cleaning power from dish soap to toothpaste. This will make your home smell as clean as possible.

Of course, you may customize your Thieves experience by adding a few drops of Orange, Tangerine, or Nutmeg essential oil too for different smell and environment. Cheers for healthy lifestyle with the Thieves essential oil!

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Soybean and health

Do you like soybean? I love soybean very much… Soybean contains substantial nutrients and health-care effects.
Health benefits of soybean : -
Enhance immune function, but how? If the human body lacks of protein, it will lead to loss of immunity, fatigue and other symptoms. Eating soybean can not only supplement protein, but can also avoid the rising of cholesterol caused by eating meat.
Prevent cancer: soybean contains protease inhibin,nt cancer, especially breast cancer.
Lower high blood pressure: consume too much sodium while too little potassium cause high blood pressure. Whilst, eating more food rich in potassium can expel of the excessive sodium salt in the body. Soybean is rich in potassium.
More intelligence - contains soybean lecithin, which is one of the important to brain, prevent Alzheimer's Disease. And increase the function and vigor of nerve cells.
Improve human tissues and organs: soybean lecithin can promote the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, and strengthen the tissues and organs in human body, lower the level of cholesterol in the body, improve the metabolism, as well as prevent and treat coronary atherosclerosis.
Improve energy: soybean can increase the excitement it can also help to alleviate the depressed and gloomy mood.
Whiten skin, slow down skin aging, but can also alleviate menopausal syndrome. Japanese researchers have found out that, soybean contains linoleic acid, preventing the synthesis of melanin in skin cells.
Prevent oxidation: soybean saponins have an antioxidant effect, clear away the free radicals in human body, inhibit the growth of tumor cells, and strengthen the immune function of the body.
Reduce blood fat: reducing the cholesterol in blood, compete with the cholesterol in the intestines and reduce the absorption of cholesterol and lower the bad cholesterol content.
Prevent deafness: Soybean contains much more iron and zinc than other food, as such, it plays an important role in the prevention of deafness for elderly people.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Lose weight Cucumber Juice

Cucumber always considered as rich with healthy ingredients. You may or may not like cucumber. What about a cucumber juice? It give you an equal result to lose weight. Why?

Lose weight Cucumber Juice

Actually, Cucumber belongs to calorie foods---those that require more calories to digest than they contain.
How cucumber juice help you to lose weight?
  • boost your digestion
  • accelerate your metabolism,
  • cucumber juice is natural diuretic which encourage to flush toxins and water from your body including fat cells. Cucumber juice breaks down fatty deposits into small pieces, which get flushed out in the urine.
  • conquer hunger and
  • eventually help you lose weight
Cucumbers contains :
  • manganese, potassium, silicon, chlorophyll and vitamin A.
  • considered a fruit in the same family as the pumpkin, and are free of cholesterol, sodium and fat
Fresh cucumber juice can provide relief from heartburn, acid stomach, and even ulcers.
A glass of cucumber juice a day keep the fat away… Give a try with some honey with lemon juice if you do not like the bitterness… Lose weight? Try cucumber juice everyday for 2 months, you will see the immediate effect.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

How to do a 3-day low calorie diet?

This 3-day low calorie diet will help you to lose at least 600kcal per day if you have it with 30 minutes slow walk.

If you ambitious to lose weight quickly, the only thing that works is to dramatically decrease your calories intake. Thisis a really effective diet, but keep in min that this 3-day low calorie diet is not for long-term lose weight plan.

Day 1
Breakfast : Half grapefruit, tea or coffee (no cream or sugar)
Lunch : 85g pasta with half tomato and warm water
Dinner : 60g spinach, 1 hard-boiled egg, half tomato and 2 tbsp lemon juice and warm water

How to do a 3-day low calorie diet? Grapefruit

Day 2
Breakfast : Half banana, tea or coffee (no cream or sugar)
Lunch : 60g spinach, 1 small-canned tuna with half tomato and 2 tbsp lemon juice and warm water
Dinner : 60g grilled vegetable, hard-boiled eggand 1 yellow bell pepper and warm water

Day 3
Breakfast : 1 green apple, tea or coffee (no cream or sugar)
Lunch : 100g pasta, with 0.5 tomato and 2 tbsp lemon juice and warm water
Dinner : 30g salad without dressing, 1 boiled egg and warm water

How to do a 3-day low calorie diet? Spinach
Try this if you need to slim down for an dinner dress!

Monday, August 6, 2012

Top Fruit Tomato

What are the benefits of having tomato? Some of us might like tomato and otherwise. If I am saying a tomato a day, keep the doctor away, what say you?

Top Fruit Tomato
 How tomato help to prolong life and what are the benefits? Let me share with you what are the benefits of taking tomato and how tomato helps to prolong our life.
Top Fruit Tomato
Tomato is : -
  • Antioxidant protection of the bones, liver, kidneys, and bloodstream.
  • Cardiovascular Support which reduce the risk of heart disease and regulation of the fats in the bloodstream. The regular consumption of tomato has proved to decrease the levels of LDL cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood
  • Supporting protecting bone tissue
  • Anti-Cancer, provide us with strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory support. It gave the best benefit to prevent prostate cancer and lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and breast cancer, stomach cancer, rectum cancer as well as pharynx and oesophageal cancers
  • Reducing risk of some neurological diseases (including Alzheimer's disease)
  • Reducing risk of some obesity diseases
  • Abundant vitamin A, K, potassium and iron. A helps in Improves Vision, Potassium helps in maintaining nerve health, iron is essential for maintaining normal blood health. Vitamin K which is essential in blood clotting and controls bleeding is abundant in tomatoes.
  • Counters the Effect of Cigarette Smoke
  • Lowers Hypertension
  • Alleviates Diabetes
  • For Healthy Skin high in preparation of anti-aging products
  • Prevents Urinary Tract Infections and bladder cancer

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Dairy products prolong your life



Dairy Milk
Why should we take dairy?

How do the dairy foods work in our diet? How it helps to keep us healthy? Why should we take dairy everyday? These are the questions that we like to ask, below is the summary of how dairy important to keep us healthy and why dairy played important role to prolong our life.

Dairy gives you calcium and protein
Dairy products give us calcium and protein. What are dairy products? These include low-fat milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, and reduced-fat cheese. Do you ever believe that a cup of yogurt gives you a third of your daily recommended calcium intake.

Dairy and Vitamin D
Our bodies can actually make vitamin D if we get adequate sunlight
Vitamin D known for promoting healthy bones through its role in calcium absorption. It also helps to reduce the risk of certain cancers to lowering blood pressure.



Dairy Yogurt


Dairy cheese
Dairy gives you better blood pressure
Those who consume the most low-fat dairy (mostly skim and reduced-fat milk) were less likely to develop high blood pressure over a two-year period than those with the lowest intakes of low-fat dairy.

Those who consumed the most dairy (milk, yogurt, and cheese) were less likely to have enlarged waists and metabolic syndrome, a group of symptoms that has been shown to increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Weight
There is increasing evidence that calcium from dairy products may play a role in body-weight regulation.

Dairy improve your Bone Density
Those who have enough cheese, calcium, or calcium plus vitamin D appeared to have bigger increases in bone mass than the other groups.

For the purpose of staying healthy, consume dairy products is very important and we should have this habit in our daily lifestyle.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Citrus fruits may lower your stroke risk

Squeeze some of the citrus fruits into your diet may lower your stroke risk. Some study has discovered that those who daily diet included high levels of flavanones had lower risk of ischemic stroke than those who ate little of this.

What is flavanones? This is basically include fruits like oranges and grapefruits. Besides of being reduce and lower the stroke risk, it has the function to strengthen blood vessels and decrease inflammation.
Orange
When should we take this? If you are not having gastric problem, you may take any 1 or 2 hours before lunch. If you have gastric problem, take only when you are with some food in your stomach. You are advised to take 2 oranges or 1 grapefruit a day.

Grapefruit

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Milk makes your brain work

There is a study discovered that people who consumed at least one serving of dairy a day did better on memory tests than those who went without.

What are included in the dairy products? Yogurt, of course yes .. and as well as milk. You are encouraged to take these 2 dairy products daily to improve our health and balance our daily diet. Did you ever hear that this dairy products may improve high blood pressure and unhealthy cholestrol numbers. This aspect is associated withe brain drain. Let's take this as a try , we may find milk makes our brains work...

Friday, July 20, 2012

Yoga upgrades your memory

Did you ever know that yoga could upgrade your memory?
Streth your body and your brain, this is one of the way to pratice yoga. A study from Brazil discover that if you added twice weekly yoga sessions to your workout for 6 months did better on memory tests than those who assigned to other forms of exercise. Yoga may reduce levels of cortisol, a stress hormone that can impair memory when elevated.


Let's try whether this work... Stay healthy...

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Sugarcane gives you a cooling effect

Sugarcane is a natural drink that with the cooling effect. What are the benefits of drinking sugar cane?
  • Sugarcane juice refreshes and energizes the body instantly as it is rich in carbohydrates.
  • Sugarcane juice is a healing source for sore throat, cold and flu.
  • This is a sweet drink diabetics can enjoy without fear because it has no simple sugars.
  • It helps to fight cancer. Studies indicate that it has positive activity against prostate and breast cancer cells.
  • It hydrates the body quickly when exposed to prolong heat and physical activity.
  • They are excellent substitutes for carbonated drinks and cola.
  • Febrile disorders which cause fever happen when there is a great amount of protein loss. But liberal intake of sugarcane juice provides the body with necessary protein and other food elements.
  • It keeps the urinary flow clear and helps the kidneys to perform their functions smoothly.
  • 

    Sugarcane with the cooling effect
    As such, it is encouraged to drink surgarcane occasionally to cool down our body heat. But, bear in mind, avoid to drink at night which will call our body too cold. Stay healthy …

Monday, July 16, 2012

Dragon Fruits prolong life

Nutritious Dragon Fruits
I believe all of us heard of dragon fruit and have seen it occasionally in supermarket, market, fruit stall and any of restaurants. There are many names of dragon fruit, it can be called Pitaya, Night blooming Cereus, Strawberry Pear, Belle of the Night, conderella plant.
There are 3 kinds of dragon fruits, red skin with red flesh, red skin with white flesh and yellow skin with white flesh. Dragon fruits are very nutritious fruits.
Let me share with you what the dragon fruit can do to prolong our life and make us stay healthy always : -
  • Dragon fruit contains a good source of antioxidants, it prevents free radicals and protects from causing cancer and other health detriments from entering your body.
  • Dragon fruit is rich in minerals and fibers that aids in digestion, cleans toxic ingredients thus preventing the occurrence of colon cancer.
  • Dragon fruit is full of vitamin C, essential nutrients that also boost the immune system, helps in healing bruises and cuts quickly.
  • Dragon fruit is rich of vitamins B1, B2, and B3. Vitamin B1 in this fruit helps in increasing the energy production and also in metabolizing carbohydrates. Vitamin B2 present in dragon fruit acts like a multivitamin and helps to improve and recover the loss of appetite. With vitamin B3, it helps in lowering bad cholesterol levels. It improves the appearance of your skin by smoothing and moisturizing it.
  • Dragon fruit helps in digestion. Because of the richness in fibers, Dragon fruit aids in the digestion of food, Studies also suggest that Dragon fruit promotes the growth of probiotics and thereby reduce the fat.
  • Dragon fruit seeds provide a source of essential fatty acids.
  • Dragon fruit is also very good for asthma and a bad cough.
  • Dragon fruit also contain vitamins that improve eye sights and prevent hypertension.
  • Dragon fruit helps promote bone density and dental health.
  • It helps to neutralize the toxic substances such as heavy metals. Besides, high blood pressure and cholesterol levels can be reduced by consuming dragon fruit.
  • It is a good source of phosphorus and calcium, it reinforces bones, helps in tissue formation and forms healthy teeth.
  • Dragon fruit is also helpful in reducing blood sugar levels in people suffering from diabetes.
In view of there are so many benefits of having dragon fruits as one of our choice, let’s start take this as a habit, take it regularly to improve our health and make sure we always stay healthy.

Dragon fruits prolong life

Saturday, July 14, 2012

What should you do in the evening to lose weight?

After reading the "morning is the most effective time to lose weight", now this is the second part of it. What should you do in the evening to lose weight?

After the morning exercise, breakfast, lunch and now time to prepare yourself for the evening exercise. We need to fuel ourselves before we start to workout. What should we eat then? Try some breast meat sandwich with banana is good enough to repair, rebuilding our energy. Most important is this breast meat sandwich and banana are the fast-burning carbo that your provide you easy energy for the later workout. This combination will also increase your insulin levels, open your blood vessels and allow for better muscles building.

What you need to do in the evening workout? Have a run of 15mins and workout on your upper and lower body muscles for 1 hour. After the workout, take a cup of milk or smoothie is good for your protein consumption.

What should you do in the evening to lose weight
Now is the time for the final meal of the day. This time you may take some healthy fats. A stir fried vege and chicken or fish together with salad with light dressing will good enough to make a meal. The protein and fat in the chicken and the fibre in the vege will keep you feel full and satisfying. This of course will help you to lose weight if you obediently follow the schedule... Stay healthy guys....    

Friday, July 13, 2012

Morning is the most effective time to lose weight


Morning is the most effective time to lose weight
I think all of us would try to figure out what are the healthy ways to lose weight. As an exercise lover, i would like to share with you the healthy way of weight loss. This starts from the morning.

Morning is the most effective time to lose weight. Why? Morning is the time to kickstart your metabolism, manage your blood sugar and prepare yourself for a heavier workout in the afternoon. Morning is the most prime time to exercise, you are burning a higher % of your fat before the breakfast. This is because the body's supply of carbohydrate energy is depleted and the hormonal state makes body fat more accessible. A little big of effort, make a great result. Why not? 

What you need to do for morning exercise? Actually you just need to have a hour of walking, jogging, swimming. And don't forget, to  make it more effective, take a cup of coffee before your exercise may help to trash out more of your fat cells. Don't stress yourself in the morning exercise which will make you tired and sleepy afterwards, just an hour of low to medium intensity exercise will do.

After your morning exercise, what should eat for breakfast? Breakfast is a very important meal of the day. For the purpose of weight lose, you are encourage to take only protein and slow-burning carbs. This will help to manage your insulin. Insulin the lowest in the early morning but it become higher after your first meal. This means, if you overeat during your breakfast, you are comsuming more calories than you require. This will lead to the increase of insulin and thereafter have a high storage of fat. Extra fat will interfere the body's ability to metabolise carbo in a proper way.

What is an ideal breakfast? Here, you should go for 2 whole eggs for protein and whole-grain toast or oatmeal or an apple. After 2 hours you may have your snack which are rich in protein and fibre too. Then you can continue your lunch in 2 hours later. Brown rice, chicken breast and high-fibre vege is good for weight loss.Try to have some food that require more chewing. This is to allow enough time for your brain to receive a good signal that you are full and should stop eating. Bear in mind, high protein is important to speed up your metabolism and help to lose weight. 

Check out the next article for what you should do in the afternoon to lose weight.. Be mindful, morning is the most effctive time to lose weight.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Cardio Exercise to keep you healthy

Cardio exercise is exercise that is aerobic and increases your heart rate. Cardiovascular exercise involves the steady and repetitive movement of a person's arms and legs, it will increase circulation and blood flow throughout the body.

We are always confused with how much cardio we need to keep us healthy and prolong our life. The answer is actually, only 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise 5 days a week, or vigorous cardio 20 minutes a day, 3 days a week. This is more than enough to to keep us healthy. However, for the pupose of weight loss, you might need even more (up to 60-90 minutes) depending on your diet and other activities.

cardio exercise : jogging
What you get after your cardio exercise? Your muscles are warm and flexible, the blood is pumping through your body, providing oxygen and energy. As such, you will feel energized, confident, proud of yourself and ready to take on the world. This is so-called become more healthy.
Let me share with you what you can get out of cardio exercise:
  • Improves Cardiovascular Health
  • Protects Against Disease
  • aids Weight Loss
  • Improves Mood
  • Better sleep
  • More energy
  • Increased bone density
  • Stronger heart and lungs
  • Reduced stress
  • Reduced risk of heart disease and some types of cancer
  • Temporary relief from depression and anxiety
  • More confidence about how you feel and how you look
cardio exercise : swimming
Generally, cardio exercise include Jogging, swimming, playing tennis, using trainer in the gym, cycling and Ice skating. Choose any of this cardio exercise to keep yourself healthier... Stay healthy...

Monday, July 9, 2012

Boost your brain power

Did you ever think of how to boost your brain power to become more clever?

There is a study discovering that taking oranges and blackcurrants as your snacks can make you be the top of the class. This is because colourful fruits and other foods rich in Vitamin C have the power to increase mental agility.


Believe or not, for a healthy lifestyle, i belive Vitamin C always plays very important role.

Friday, July 6, 2012

Yogurt to prolong your life


I believe all of you have heard of yourt how it improve and bringing to a healthy lifestyle...
Yogurt is a valuable health food for both infants and elderly persons. For children, it is a balanced source of protein, fats, carbohydrates, and minerals in a texture that kids love. For senior citizens, who usually have more sensitive colons or whose intestines have run out of lactase, yogurt is also a valuable food. 

Let me share with you what yogurt can do to our body and prolong our life...

1. Yogurt lowers cholesterol. 
This may be because the live cultures in yogurt can assimilate the cholesterol.

2.  As a "grow food." 
The easier digestibility of the proteins and the lactic acid in yogurt increases the absorption of minerals. 

3. Yogurt is easier to digest than milk. 
The culturing process makes yogurt more digestible than milk.  In general, yogurt has less lactose than milk. The culturing process has already broken down the milk sugar lactose into glucose and galactose, two sugars that are easily absorbed by lactose-intolerant persons.
  
4. Yogurt contributes to colon health.  
When eating yogurt, you care for your colon in two ways. First, yogurt contains lactobacteria, intestines-friendly bacterial cultures that foster a healthy colon, and even lower the risk of colon cancer.  The friendly bacteria in yogurt seems to deactivate harmful substances (such as nitrates and nitrites before they are converted to nitrosamines) before they can become carcinogenic.
Secondly, yogurt is a rich source of calcium - a mineral that contributes to colon health and decreases the risk of colon cancer. Calcium discourages excess growth of the cells lining the colon, which can place a person at high risk for colon cancer. Calcium also binds cancer-producing bile acids and keeps them from irritating the colon wall.   

5. Yogurt can boost immunity.   
The bacterial cultures in yogurt have also been shown to stimulate infection-fighting white cells in the bloodstream. Some studies have shown yogurt cultures to contain a factor that has anti-tumor effects in experimental animals.

6. Yogurt aids healing after intestinal infections.
Yogurt is a popular "healing food" for diarrhea. Many pediatricians recommend yogurt for children suffering from various forms of indigestion. Research shows that children recover faster from diarrhea when eating yogurt. It's good to eat yogurt while taking antibiotics. The yogurt will minimize the effects of the antibiotic on the friendly bacteria in the intestines.

7. Yogurt can decrease yeast infections.  
Research has shown that eating eight ounces of yogurt that contains live and active cultures daily reduces the amount of yeast colonies in the vagina and decreases the incidence of vaginal yeast infections.

8.  Yogurt is a rich source of calcium.
Yogurt gets more calcium into the body than the same volume of milk can.

9. Yogurt is an excellent source of protein.
Besides being a rich source of proteins, the culturing of the milk proteins during fermentation makes these proteins easier to digest. For this reason, the proteins in yogurt are often called "predigested."


Did you know that Bulgarians who are noted for their longer lifespan and remain in good health well into old age with the daily yougurt consumption. Let's have a healthy lifestyle and prolong our life with a yougurt a day.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Avocado prolong your life

Avocados are full of fiber, potassium, and vitamins C,K, folate, and B6. A normal size half an avocado has 160 calories, 15 grams of heart-healthy unsaturated fat, and only 2 grams saturated fat. One globe contains more than one-third daily value of vitamin C, and more than half the day’s requirements of vitamin K.

Avocado prolong life

How avocado prolong life?
  1. It contains carotenoid that works as an antioxidant and helps to prevent eye desease.
  2. Carotenoid also help you get more of these nutrients from other foods. It is soluble in fat, not water. As such, eating carotenoid-packed foods like fruits and vegetables along with monounsaturated-fat-rich avocados helps your body absorb the carotenoids.
  3. Avocados make you feel full. High in fibre, of which your body needs to keep the digestive system running smoothly. Plus, soluble fibre slows the breakdown of carbohydrates in your body, helping you feel full for longer.
  4. Avocados also contain oleic acid, to activate your brain and make you feel full.
  5. Avocados can protect your unborn baby—and your heart. One cup of avocado provides almost a quarter of your recommended daily intake of folate, a vitamin which cuts the risk of birth defects. If you’re pregnant—or planning to be—avocados will help protect your unborn baby.
  6. A high folate intake is also associated with a lower risk of heart attacks and heart disease.
  7. Avocados can help lower your cholesterol. Oleic acid in avocados can help reduce cholesterol levels. By lowering down the LDL, it also increase the HDL (the healthy type) to keep your heart healthy.
Let's keep our heart healthy.. Avocado will prolong our life by keeping us a healthy heart.

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