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Amazing Health Benefits of Tomatoes 

6/29/2013

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People around the world love the taste of those red big tomatoes. Aside from the fact that it’s very easy to get, it’s also very healthy and nutritious to the body. We know that it’s rich in anti-oxidants, vitamin C, lycopene, and is low in calories. However, there are a lot of amazing benefits of tomatoes that you probably don’t know. 

Do you know that one serving of tomatoes or 1 cup that is equal to 10 grams is full of potassium, Vitamins C, A, K, vitamin B6, magnesium, niacin, thiamine, copper, and phosphorous? These nutrients are essential to have that full energy that will make you happy every single day of your life. It will give you 7 percent of your recommended daily allowance of natural fiber. 

Including this fruit in your diet will help prevent heart diseases, high blood pressure, and strokes. It will lessen your dermatologist visits with its skin beautifying nutrients like lycopene and beta-carotene. These are the two nutrients that will generate the skin’s natural protection against the ultra-violet rays of the sun that. 

Women need more calcium especially as they grow older. It’s really unnecessary to swallow those gigantic calcium pills each day. What you need is at least one serving of tomatoes a day to get the potassium and calcium that your bones need.

Cancer is one of the most common causes of human death, which is mainly a result of poor diet and unhealthy lifestyle. Tomatoes will help your body fight and recover from toxins that it absorbs from the environment, and from the unhealthy foods you eat. It’s abundant in vitamins A and C that will help speed up cell renewal, and will prevent the development of damaged or cancer cells.

Because of the high-sugar diets that we adopt, diabetes is another illness that even people with young age are battling. If you can’t control your sugar intake, make sure that you give your body enough amount of chromium that will aid in regulating the sugar level of your blood. This uncommon nutrient is abundant in tomatoes. It will also help you retain your good eyesight because of its high vitamin A content. It’s proven that including tomatoes in your daily diet will lessen the chances of getting muscular degeneration, a form of irreversible eye damage.

Love your kidney by consuming tomatoes every single day. Eating this nutritious fruit without its seeds is proven to help prevent the formation of gall and kidney stones. Older people can say goodbye to arthritis or rheumatism pain as well as tomatoes are known as good source of bioflavonoids and carotenoids. These two will stop the inflammation of your joints and muscles.

Healthy eating paired with enough sleep and exercise will definitely result to a healthy body. Maintain your daily exercise routines, and the tomatoes you eat will do the rest.

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