Contest: Food is Medicine
How are you all? I hope you are all well by the grace of Allah. I am also fine by the grace of Allah. Today, I will participate in the new contest from Healthy Steem, which is brought by the Honorable moderator @sahmie. The name of the contest is "Contest: Food is Medicine". Respected Moderator @sahmie has brought to us an excellent topic of healthy food and our health. Thank you so much Healthy Steem for bringing us a beautiful contest to us
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✅Do you believe that the foods we eat have medicinal value? |
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Healthy food and good health are inextricably linked. It is foolish to hope for good health without healthy food.
Various types of diseases are constantly arising in our bodies. Several medicinal foods destroy those diseases. We do not even understand how much these medicinal foods are preventing our diseases. But the medicinal foods are fulfilling their duties.
Yes, I think that the food we eat every day has medicinal value. We have proof of this at hand.
- Today, if you feel weak, you can drink a glass of milk and find that your weakness has reduced a lot.
- If your blood pressure is low, you eat a warm egg and milk, your pressure will be normal.
Just from this small example, I can understand that food has tremendous medicinal properties. So, I have to believe that most of the foods we eat have medicinal properties.
✅Give 5 examples of foods that you consider to be powerful "medicines" for the body, and what they do. |
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Almost every food we eat every day has medicinal properties. It is just a matter of presenting the food healthily.
I present a list of 5 foods that have medicinal properties.
- Milk
- Green vegetables
- Dates
- Oily fish
- Egg
- Milk:-
A liquid food full of nutrients is milk which is known as a medicinal food. Milk contains carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals, calcium, potassium, zinc, and other substances that everyone is bound to admit in one sentence milk is a medicinal food. - This food contains 87% water thus helps in hydration.
- Milk plays a special role in liver function, brain development, and nerve function.
- The high calcium vitamin in milk promotes strong bones and gums.
- Milk helps to build and restore body muscles
- Carbohydrates in milk help in building muscle energy.
- Potassium and magnesium in milk help to lower blood pressure in the body.
- Green Vegetables: -
- Green vegetables are called vitamin factories. These green vegetables contain a lot of vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
- Green vegetables improve eyesight, improve immunity, keep skin healthy,
- Produces antioxidants in the body
- Protects immune function,
- Helps prevent blood clotting. Hemoglobin helps transport oxygen in the blood.
- Helps the digestion of food.
- Reduces the risk of chronic diseases
- Helps in healthy pregnancy.
Thus, vegetables act as medicine for various functions of the body. - Dates: -
- Dates are a highly nutritious fruit. Dates also play an important role as a medicinal food.
- Dates contain carbohydrates which are the main source of energy
- Dates help in digestion
- Lowers cholesterol levels.
- Dates help regulate hormones
- Sight plays a role in immune function.
- It is especially useful in cell division, DNA synthesis, and pregnancy.
- It helps transport hemoglobin and oxygen in the blood
- Helps build strong bones and teeth.
- Oily fish: -
Fish helps in building our muscles, helps in the production of enzymes and hormones, reduces the risk of arthritis, improves eyesight, and helps in the formation of red blood cells. - Helps in healthy skin
- Especially useful in thyroid disease,
- Acts as an antioxidant.
- Helps reduce anemia
- Eggs: -
- Eggs are also a protein-rich food.
- This food helps in muscle repair.
- It works for the overall protection of the body.
- Eggs are good for the heart.
- Helps prevent blood clotting.
- Acts as an antioxidant
- It plays a special role in cell division.
✅How can we use food in our daily lives to keep healthy? |
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Eating food is not the only way to maintain health. We have to pay attention to the benefits of this food for our health and whether we need that food.
For example, eggs are beneficial, but feeding eggs to a patient with high blood pressure is more likely to cause harm than benefit.
Therefore, before eating our food, we should take food knowing the nutritional value of the food and how much it will adjust with the body.
✅Do you think it's important for schools to teach about how food can be like medicine for our bodies? Why? |
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Yes, I think children should be given knowledge about nutrition while in school. There are several reasons for this. Like:-
- School boys and girls like to eat more junk food which is not good for their health.
- If you know the quality of healthy food while at school, you can avoid that unhealthy food.
- Knowing how healthy food works in our body will create interest in that food.
- Knowledge acquired at a young age can always be applied.
