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Reasons Why You Should Learn To Love This Veggie If You Don’t Already
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As far back as the 9th century B.C., celery has been used as a medicine. Today, this popular vegetable is used in salads, soups, and stir-fry dishes all over the world.
Celery is a terrific source of many vitamins including B, C, A, calcium, potassium, and many, many more for next to no calories.
What most people don’t know are the amazing health benefits that celery has. Also, if you are interested in foods that fight cancer, you can’t beat celery!
Want to know more? Celery might not be the most thrilling of vegetables, but it certainly has more than enough reasons for you to start loving it if you don’t already.
1. Celery Can Help You Lose Weight
And we don’t mean by eating just celery stalks throughout the day. Celery is super low in calories. It adds bulk to your meals but has a skinny little 10 calories. Celery is also a terrific source of fiber, which will help to make you feel full for a longer period of time. Feel free to add several stalks of celery to everything; salads, vegetable dishes, stir-fry’s, sandwiches and snacks.
2. Celery is a Natural Source of Salt
You might not know it, but celery naturally contains sodium, a type of natural, organic salt that is vital to your health. Your body must have salt in order to function.
3. Celery Can Lower Blood Pressure
Even though celery contains salt, it is not enough to raise your blood pressure. However, another substance in celery, 3-n-butylphthaline (3NB), has been found in several studies to lower blood pressure.
4. Celery Can Protect Your Vision
One large stalk of celery provides you with 10 percent of your daily requirement for vitamin A, which is very important for the protection of your eyesight from vision robbing diseases.
5. Celery is a Natural Pain Reliever
The same compound in celery that can lower your blood pressure, 3NB, is also able to relieve the pain of gout, arthritis, and fibromyalgia, according to some studies.
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6. Celery Improves Digestion
Since celery is mostly water (95 percent water in fact) and packed with insoluble fiber it means that celery is your new best friend if you have digestion problems.
7. Celery Can Help You Sleep Better
Celery is rich in magnesium, which helps to calm the body by relaxing the nerves. Celery also contains essential oils that ease the nervous system in order to help you sleep better. Add more celery to your dinner or night time snack plan to improve your chances of counting fewer sheep.
8. Celery Can Improve the Immune System
Adding plenty of celery regularly to your diet can greatly reduce your risk of getting those nasty winter colds and flu viruses as well as other diseases. Celery is full of powerful antioxidants and vitamin C, both of which are known to improve your immune system.
9. Celery is a Super Anti-Inflammatory
Many diseases, such as arthritis and Alzheimer’s, get their start in inflammation. Celery reduces inflammation in the body. Become a celery lover if you want to relive the pain of arthritis, asthma, and joint pain.
10. Celery is a Terrific Detoxifier
Celery reduces water weight and removes toxins from the body since it is a mild diuretic that will remove toxins via a higher urine output.
11. Celery Regulates the Body’s Alkaline Balance
If you are looking to keep your body more alkaline, celery is what you want to consume more of. This is due to the high levels of alkaline based minerals that it contains, including potassium, iron, sodium, and magnesium.
12. Celery Can Protect Your Memory
Memory loss could be greatly reduced by adding celery to your diet. The University of Illinois conducted a study in 2010 which found that lutein, a nutrient found in celery, inhibits inflammation and improves cognitive performance.
13. Celery is a Super Anti-Cancer Food
One compound in celery, apigenen, was shown to significantly inhibit breast cancer cells in one study done at the University of Missouri. Another compound, coumarins, which are phytochemicals, has been found to fight cancer because they increase white blood cells and improve their activity. Consuming celery regularly could delay the formation of breast cancer cells significantly. Other studies have shown that celery seeds are also powerful anti-cancer foods.
READ ALSO: Can Celery Kill Cancer?
So while celery might not be the drama queen that kale or broccoli is, you can see that it has plenty to offer in the way of health benefits.
Eat more celery, friends, 10 million rabbits cannot be wrong!
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