ONIONS FIGHTS HYPERTENTION AND BREAST CANCER
Friday, April 11, 2008
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Raw onions fights hypertension,
prevents breast cancer
Onions contain beneficial sulphur compounds which can be destroyed by cooking. But many people do not know this fact. Even those who often cook with onion in the kitchen are not aware that allicin, an important bioactive nutrient in onion, is completely neutralized during food preparation process.
If you belong to the category of people who do not like to cook with onions or who do not like to eat onions at all, you had better changed your mind.
In fact, the belief of many people is that onion has no other place or “home” than the kitchen while some people cannot eat food or meal prepared with onion.
However, for those who like onions and can even eat it raw, scientists have advised them, to continue to be onion lovers because they are on the path of good health.
Though it is no longer news that garlic prevents high blood pressure, however, the latest information emanating from scientists and nutritionists who have been working on different fruits and vegetables to know their disease-fighting chemicals/compounds and how such chemicals can be extracted and formulated into drugs reveals that onions should not only be regarded as a cooking ingredient but also a good drug because it can prevent and fight certain diseases especially cancer as well as mount road blocks against certain heart diseases like arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), bronchitis, dry or stubborn cough and most importantly, prevent irregular heart beat and abnormal blood pressure, that is both hypotension and hypertension.
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