The Health Benefits of Cabbage
March 21, 2009
When they are looking for a healthy vegetable, the average person doesn’t give much thought to cabbage. The truth is that civilizations as far back as the ancient Greeks knew that a diet that was heavily supplemented with cabbage was an excellent way to ensure a long, healthy life.
When you are eating cabbage to improve your health you can eat the cabbage raw or cooked.
Cabbage Improves Your Ocular Health
The Greeks knew that cabbage was an excellent way to improve your optical health. The Greeks used to make a rinse out of cabbage juice that they used to treat their eye infections. While that isn’t necessary, consuming cabbage with its vast amount of Vitamin A will strengthen your eyes and make you less likely to develop cataracts as you age. The Vitamin A is also very good for your skin.
Drinking cabbage juice is an effective remedy for digestive problems, chronic respiratory problem, headaches, healing stomach ulcers and fungus infections.
Red Cabbage Prevents Alzheimer’s
Recent Alzheimer’s research has shown that eating red cabbage is an effective tool in preventing the deterioration of your short and long term memory. The cabbage prevents the memory loss by reducing the amount of plague building up on the brain. The antioxidant anthocyanin is present in red cabbage but not in white cabbage,
Cabbage Produces Sulforaphane
One of the things you’ll find in cabbage is something called Sulforaphane. One of the purposes of sulforaphane is to help create antioxidants that help the body fight infections. Doctors have also noticed that in addition to fighting infections and boosting the body’s immune system, sulforaphane also provides the body with the necessary tools to fight with the free radicals that cause cancer.
Eating just two pounds of cabbage a week is enough to lower your chances of you developing cancer. The best thing about sulforaphane is that you don’t have to worry about having too much, there aren’t any side affects, even though the body doesn’t produce it naturally.
Cabbage and Your Cardiovascular Health
Serum cholesterol is the combination of all types of cholesterol, good and bad, in your body. When your serum cholesterol is high you are at an increased risk for heart related illness, such as heart attacks, heart disease and strokes. Eating cabbage is just one of the thing doctors recommend for lowering your serum cholesterol.
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