AMAZING BENEFITS OF CHIA SEEDS

in #health7 years ago (edited)

To stay and remain healthy, you must eat only healthy foods. Unfortunately, our present day dynamic environment is not presenting an enabling platform that fosters a strict intake of only healthy foods. This is observed with the increasing production, distribution and circulation of artificial and junk foods.

Furthermore, the high consumption of dietary fat and starchy food remains a major concern in nutrition research. The concern is that failure to make an early U-turn and stick to only healthy food options poses a high risk of onset of several chronic malignant diseases.

Fortunately, most of these healthy foods are quite affordable and easily at our beck and call. The call to action is for you to strive hard and endeavour to eat nothing but only healthy foods. Tough one right? But I bet you’ll be glad you heed to this call today a few years from now!

There are loads of healthy foods you can easily reach out to and one of such is the chia seed. If you are still on this page, then it might interest you to learn more about the benefits of chia seeds.

Chia is coined from the Nahuatl word “chian”, which connotes oily while chia seed means "beverage seed”. Being a functional food with health-giving additives, understanding how we can benefit from the nature's gift is very paramount. 

The benefits of chia seeds cannot be overemphasised as several active ingredients and essential compounds have been found present. Peradventure you are unsure of how chia seeds can be used, it might interest you to know that they are useful in several ways such as; foodstuff, culinary purposes, emulsifier, suspension production, food thickener, rehydrating agent, chelating agent, gel production, clarifying agent or as a foam enhancer.

Benefits of Chia Seeds

- Culinary Purposes: Chia seeds (tokhm-e-sharbatī) is edible thus can be consumed in several ways such as beverages, smoothies, drinks, bakery products and main meals. Chia seeds can also be used as topping on bread, sandwiches, granola bars, salads, cereals and yoghurt.

- Medicinal Purposes: Studies show that chia seeds contain antimicrobial, antioxidant, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antidepressant, anticoagulant, antiviral, laxative, anti-anxiety and antineoplastic properties. A research by Suri et al., (2016) shows that chia seeds may be suitable for preventing, treating and managing most types of non-communicable diseases. Furthermore, this special seed can help to slow down the digestion of carbohydrates thereby improving the postprandial blood glucose levels in the blood.

- Anticancer Properties: Cancer is increasingly becoming a major threat to humanity. A type of cancer that continues to pose a great risk to the male gender is the prostate cancer. Studies reveal that the crude extract of Chia seeds is considered therapeutically suitable for tackling prostate cancer cells.

- Aids Digestion: Due to the high mucilaginous constituents of the chia seed, it is considered effective for aiding digestion and facilitating the removal of faecal matters through the anus.

- Antimicrobial activity: Chia seeds contain antimicrobial properties thus effective against effective against A.actinomycetamcmitans, P.gingivalis and F.nucleatum.

- Laxative Properties: Chia seeds can be used as a laxative for stimulating or facilitating the evacuation of faeces from the bowels.

- Maintains Healthy Serum Lipid Level: Chia seeds help to maintain healthy serum lipid level.

Here are other health-related articles published on my steemit blog that might interest you:

IS RASPBERRY KETONE IDEAL FOR WEIGHT LOSS?

REASONS WHY PSYLLIUM IS HIGHLY BENEFICIAL

ALL ABOUT KOMBUCHA: ITS BENEFITS, USES AND SIDE EFFECTS

Images from Pixabay.

Read more about the benefits, uses and side effects of chia seeds including the references via https://globalfoodbook.com/chia-seeds-nutritional-values-benefits-and-side-effects




Sort:  

We soak them overnight and then add fresh fruit salad. Yum!

Yeah, It is always better to soak them overnight. Super yummy and refreshing in salads.
Cheers.

I eat them every morning on my cereal. Great to see positive news on this super food. Thanks

It is indeed a super food and all I can say is for you to continue enjoying all the benefits that this amazing food offers.
Many thanks for your comment.

Very good info - reminds me to remember to add them to my diet more often.

Many thanks for your kind words. Please do add them more often in your diet.

Fantastic post @globalfoodbook - really informative, interesting and easy to read. I love chia seeds and they never cease to impress me with their versatility!

Many thanks @woman-onthe-wing for appreciating my effort. Continue enjoying every bit of chia seeds.

Thanks for sharing, I'm trying to get on the healthy train.

You are highly welcome. Please do try and get on board the healthy train.
Cheers

I actually was at a time been having overnight oatmeal with chia seed, until I have been busy lately and too tired to have it done when am home late at night.
I should do that again.
Thanks for such a reminder
upvoted and resteem

I am happy that my post has acted as a reminder. Just keep enjoying your chia seeds to the fullest.
Many thanks for the upvote and resteem.
You are the best!

Yes! I love adding chia seeds to my juices and smoothies. So good.

:-)

So so good in juices and smoothies. Keep enjoying them.
Cheers

I love chia, but have never liked the "puddings." I just add them to my oatmeal and things like that.

Adding chia seeds to oatmeal is also very nice. I use them in both puddings, oatmeals, cereals etc.
Many thanks @rebeccamorgan

oh they are really yummy especially when chilled on a hot morning

That's amazing, thanks.

Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by globalfoodbook from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, and someguy123. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows and creating a social network. Please find us in the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.

If you like what we're doing please upvote this comment so we can continue to build the community account that's supporting all members.

Upvoted the comment already.
Many thanks for the upvote.

I love chia seeds! I tried them first time in Mexico and I'm in love since them. I love to make chia pudding or raspebrry jam with chia seeds ♥

Same here, I love them to bits. Keep enjoying them sis.
Thanks

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.18
TRX 0.15
JST 0.029
BTC 63837.42
ETH 2539.78
USDT 1.00
SBD 2.65