Popular winter eat sweet potatoes

        Chu qiu, it is sweet potato harvest season, the streets and lanes fluttering around the fragrance of sweet potato. Sweet potatoes are also become citizens of the table this "health pet", so the winter eat sweet potatoes and what good?

        According to the "of materia medica and ancient document, sweet potatoes" came to tonify deficiency, benefit spleen, stomach, strong strength kidney Yin ", "long life less disease". The Chinese materia medica "refers to the" flavor of gansu and sex, spleen and kidney flat to the ", "fill in blood circulation, yiqi, intestines and stomach, the wide sitting constipation". And the world health organization recently selection of the best health food, sweet potato was rated as one of the best 13 vegetables. The modern medical science thinks, the sweet potato health care function mainly in the following aspects.

        Fitness slow old Japan national cancer prevention research institute released last year, the results of a study points out, sweet potatoes contain a special element-dhea, the hormone can delay senescence. And Stanford university nutrition research institute also through the experiment has proved that the claim.

        Beauty nurture the sweet potato contains mucous protein can keep the blood vessel wall elasticity, prevent the happening of the atherosclerosis; The sweet potato chlorogenic acid, can inhibit the generation of melanin, prevent freckles and LaoRenBan to appear. The sweet potato estrogen, keep human skin delicate, reduce hypodermic and adipose accumulation and skin, anti-wrinkle, beauty nurture the function.

        Help to lose weight sweet potatoes can help you to lose weight, because of the sweet potato dietary fiber to promote fat in food, sugar bleed, and fat and sugar of obesity is the "culprit". In addition, eat sweet potatoes, eaters, is not easy to have a hungry feeling, it greatly reduces the number of snacks.

        Prevention of constipation sweet potato contains a large number of dietary fiber, in intestinal cannot be digest absorb, can stimulate intestines, enhance peristalsis, aperient detoxification, especially for senile constipation has good effect.

        Cancer prevention and fighting against cancer in the sweet potato that not only the necessary human, lysine, still contain plenty of carotene, can restrain the epithelial cells of the abnormal differentiation, enhance human immunity, prevent carcinogens and nucleus with the protein. In recent years, the Philadelphia hospital clinical trials showed that, from the sweet potato extracted QuXiong ketones, can effectively restrain the colon and breast cancer.

        Control blood sugar has some of the sweet potato antidiabetic effect. The university of Vienna, Austria a clinical study found that patients with type 2 diabetes in taking white extract sweet potato, after the insulin sensitivity improved, help control blood sugar.

        Sweet potato is good, but to make it the best health care efficacy, must scientifically edible. First, sweet potato must steaming cooked eat again, just in case one of the starch in gastrointestinal was difficult to digest; Second, because of the sweet potato sugar content is higher, so a unfavorable eat too much, in case of abdominal discomfort. Third, moisture resistance, spleen and stomach and qi dyspepsia should be eat carefully sweet potato; Finally, sweet potato and persimmon, tomatoes, not liquor, crab, banana equivalent food, in case of intestines and stomach bleeding or cause stomach ulcers. (HaoJinGong)