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Have a problem with your body weight? If the answer is “yes”, and you’ve been tired of doing many things to lose weight, then you should try this one. Carrots. Why carrots?

One of carrots’ fat-fighting features is their respectable fiber content, half of which is the soluble fiber calcium pectate. Soluble fiber may help lower blood-cholesterol levels by binding with and eliminating bile acids, triggering cholesterol to be drawn out of the bloodstream to make more bile acids. Talking with beta-carotene, of course carrots is the main resources.

A mere half-cup serving of cooked carrots packs a walloping four times the RDA of vitamin A in the form of protective beta-carotene. One raw carrot supposedly contains as much, though it’s not clear if all of it’s usable by your body. Beta-carotene may ward off cancers of the stomach, cervix, uterus, and the oral cavity, and it helps prevent heart disease due to its antioxidant abilities.

Recent research results from Harvard University suggest that people who eat more than five carrots a week are much less likely to suffer a stroke than those who eat only one carrot a month. In fact, the nutrients in lightly cooked carrots are more usable by your body than those in raw carrots, because cooking breaks down their tough cell walls, which releases beta-carotene.

Hmm.. if you wish for both simple way and reliably result from diet, eating more carrots will be so possible :-P

Topik: Cholesterol, Dietary, Foods