Health Benefits of Green Beans

I miss my childhood when I used to eat beans. When I was about 5 years old, my mother used to sauté slivered almonds in butter then sprinkle them over the green beans for me to be enticed to eat my veggies. From my childhood I used to eat green vegetables so as beans too. Now I eat beans normally and my mother laughs on me and said don’t you want almonds and butter.

My mother’s trick was quite cool. When I said no to eat green vegetables then my mother always play a trick by putting some of my favorite stuff on those vegetables which forced me to eat. Then it became my habit to eat vegetables on regular basis.

These are green in color and their length varies from 3-6 inches. Green beans are also called as string beans. Green beans are more nutritious than dried beans. Green beans have less protein than dried beans but they have more fiber and other nutrients.

Green beans are fully loaded with vitamins and minerals. Our body gets lots of nutrients like potassium, copper, iron, magnesium etc. About 125gm of beans contain 4gm fiber, 1.6gm iron, 48mg phosphorus, 31mg magnesium, 57mg calcium etc.

The main thing I like in beans in iron because iron is quite necessary for the functioning of our body. For stronger immune system and muscles, iron is required which we can get easily from green beans.

Even doctors recommend green beans when you suffer from health disorders related to inflammations, like arthritis. The presence of vitamin C in green beans has anti inflammatory  effect which leads to prevention of inflammations.

So include beans in your daily diet to keep your body healthy. Not only beans but all vegetables are necessary to keep our body fit and fine. So eat more and more green vegetables for better health.

Arthritis Cuases and Treatment

Arthritis can be defined as joint inflammation. It’s a health  disorder which can affects joints and also other parts of body. Arthritis is a combination of two Greek words which are athron and itis. Athron means joints and itis means inflammation.

Arthritis may lead to very bad health complications. In the initial stages whole body gets involved in it and after some time one or more joints may completely deformed and it may also make the patient handicapped. Mostly this affects joints and bones.

Arthritis can be divided into various types but I am going to divide it into three parts. Redness, swelling, stiffness and pain are the common symptoms of all three types of arthritis.

The first type of arthritis is Rheumatoid Arthritis. This type of arthritis affects toes, knees, wrists, joints etc. This arthritis may deform all body joints.

Second type of arthritis is Osteoarthritis. It can affect any joint of your body but mostly this type of arthritis affects feet, spine, hips and knees.

Third type of arthritis is Gout. It affects big toes and lower limbs. It’s very painful. Even you can feel pain from bed sheets and shocks.

Mostly arthritis happens to the people having age group of 40 plus. Women get more affected by this problem than men. Three times more women are suffering from this problem than men.

The major causes of arthritis are over weight, physical stress, imbalanced diet, nutrition deficiency, hormonal changes etc.

There are so many remedies for the treatment of arthritis. I am going to discuss some of the major remedies:

The best home remedy for arthritis is to wrap red flannel around the joint and leave it through the whole night.

A gentle massage with luke warm oil is very effective for relieve.

In the winter season the best home remedy I have ever seen is steam bath and body massage in sunshine. Sunlight is also an energy source for joints in the winter season.