30 Days of Healing Food – Day 5
30 Days of Healing Food Day 5
The Amazing Curative Power of Cooked Green Bananas
By Dr. Paul Haider
Yes that’s right cooked green bananas (not plantains), and they taste great. Cooked green bananas are popular in the Pacific Islands, Central America, South America, Caribbean, Africa, and any where they grow bananas.
They are inexpensive, have curative powers… and taste great!
Green Bananas
Vitamins – Cooked green bananas are jam packed full of wonderful vitamin B-6 important for metabolism and every enzyme reaction in your body, and they also contain lots of potassium that’s important for lowering your blood pressure, preventing strokes, helps with stress, builds strong bones, boosts metabolism, plays a very important role in water balance, and also important for brain, heart, and kidney function. And green bananas contain Vitamin C a powerful anti-oxidant that prevents disease and boosts your immune system.
Weight Loss – Cooked green bananas also work well for weight loss because they are full of “Resistant Starch” that does not break down in your GI tract and helps lower cholesterol and blood sugar too. And cooked green bananas are low in carbs and calories, high in water, and also help your body absorb more calcium. Plus cooked green bananas help you burn more fat and boost your metabolism… making them great for athletes.
Colon Health – Short chain fatty acids (Resistant Starch) important for colon health and helps in the treatment of colitis, IBS, and other colon diseases. In fact there’s a protocol called “Green Banana Therapy” that’s all about eating a cooked green banana 30 minutes before eating any other food to prevent colon problems. In fact eating cooked green bananas is a simple quick way of taking care of your colon disease. Also cooked green bananas slow down your digestive tract, add fiber to your diet, and contain fiber that’s beneficial to the probiotic bacteria in your colon. In fact according to the National Institute of Health short chain fatty acids are well known for preventing colon cancer. And cooked green bananas also contain large amounts of pectin which is important for gut motility and for ending constipation.
