With the effect of preventing oxidization
and bringing good health, a cup of water every day will help your body and mind
have a new vitality.
According to Body and soul, 10 following
reasons make us begin the new day with a cup of lemon:
1.
Intensifying immune system
Lemon juice contains a lot of vitamin C.
This is the kind of vitamin that can intensify immune system, prevent cold and
flu. According to Michele Chevalley Hedge nutritionist, lemon also helps intensify
ability about absorbing Fe of the body. This is a necessary nutrient for a
healthy immune system. Chevalley showed “vitamin C can intensify the ability
about accumulating non-HeNe substance – a kind of Fe having vegetable origin
with 4 times”.
Lemon
juice contains vitamin C that can intensify immune system, prevent cold and
flu.
2.
Helping digestive system
Because lemon has atomic structure that is
similar to digestive juice, it has positive effect on digestive system of the body.
It helps wash bowel by eliminating dregs and stimulate production of gastric
juice and substance that help intensify digestive system. This feature of lemon
juice also helps reduce symptoms such as indigestion, heartburn.
3.
Reproducing skin
According to Chevalley, lemon is a food
that is useful for preventing aging of skin. Oxidized feature is showed in
eliminating free radicals and free radicals are source that causes signs of
aging. Chevalley showed "We know that lemon contains a lot of vitamin C
that can help synthesize collagen. It also helps reduce wrinkle. Vitamin C is
necessary for synthesizing amino acid into collagen and the duty of collagen is
to associate tissues together and keep skin strong”.
Lemon
is a food that is useful for preventing aging of skin.
4.
Reducing craving for food
Lemon also contains pectin, a substance
that can dissolve. It is often found in citrus. This substance can create full
feeling, so it can prevent the feeling of craving for food. And when you feel
full in a long time, you don’t have to use snacks a lot or choose foods that
aren’t good for health to satisfy hungry feeling.
5.
Balancing pH
Lemon is one of the foods that are rich in
alkali and very good for body with a suitable level of pH because if there are
too many acids in body, it will lead to inflammation. According to Chevalley,
“Lemon juice has alkali feature while most of us have body that contains a lot
of acids. However, food researchers confuse that lemon has acid feature. In
reality, it has alkali feature”.
6.
Making excretory system clean
Lemon juice is a diuretic substance. It
helps body intensify excreting urine. Therefore, toxins in body will be
eliminated faster. It will help body purify and become healthy. Lemon juice
also makes pH of excretory system change. As a result, it will prevent
increasing of harmful bacteria.
7.
Making breath clean
Pasteurized feature of lemon juice helps
destroy harmful bacteria in mouth. A glass of lemon juice is also a method that
can help you alert and it is more useful than using coffee.
A
glass of lemon juice is also a method that can help you alert.
At present, there aren’t any experimental
evidences about optimal temperature of lemon juice. According to Chevalley
Hedge, you should use lemon juice in room temperature. “Most health experts
agree that room temperature is the temperature that is near to body’s
temperature and it causes reaction with digestive system less”.
Chevalley considered that a big amount of
lemon juice can harm enamel. However, if you worry about this problem, you
should gargle with clean water after using a cup of lemon juice.
8.
Protecting health in general
The high concentration of potassium in
lemon can help brain and nerve operate well. In addition, it also helps control
blood pressure. Lemon juice also helps reduce tiredness and stress. Lacking
potassium will cause these states. Moreover, lemon also contains vitamin P that
can improve endosmose of capillary and the flow of blood in the body.
9.
Helping trauma heal quickly
Ascorbic acid or vitamin C can make traumas
on the body heal quickly. In addition, they are also important nutrients to
maintain healthiness of bone, tissues and cartilage. In addition, it also
reduces inflammation in body.
According to Chevalley, vitamin C moves in the
body and makes free radicals neutralize. These free radicals can interact with
healthy cells in the body, destroy cell membrane and cause inflamed state.
10. Detoxifying liver
Lemon also plays role as a substance to
detoxify liver. It can purify liver and intensify activities of liver through
increasing process of producing gall acid, one kind of acid that is necessary
for digestive system. Lemon juice also helps control the redundant amount of
gall, reduce the amount of sputum produced in body and helps dissolve
gallstone.
