There is consensus that soups can have healing powers. The benefit of soup ranges from weight management to reinforcing the immunity system. Soups should be consumed at all times of the year to assure a strong protection against infections, this is a recommendation both grandmothers and scientists will put on your table.
“He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skills of the physician.” This ancient Chinese proverb pinpoints the importance of healthy food in fighting against possible illnesses. Moreover, the therapeutic worth of soup is derived from the effortlessness required by the body to process nutrition’s in the soup.
How magic soup can assure healthiness as well as longevity is hidden in mainly five secrets. These are weight management, fortification of immune system, cleaning the body, providing body heat and fight against infections.
1. Weight Management – Loss of some kilos by eating soup
Obesity is becoming alarming in developed countries. The health predicaments that are brought along with obesity are cancer, heart attack, diabetes. A soup a day can make you an outsider of the list. Soup having a high nutritious value with little salt helps to remove waste from the body. This thereby helps to reduce weight. Organic vegetable soup is the best possible mixture as plants having been exposed to pesticides and herbicides can have some toxins.
2. Strengthen immune system
Our immune system requires a particular amount of minerals, and several diets lack importance elements. Food with low nutritional value does not empower or energize our immune system. Yet, soups cooked at a low temperature do have powerful minerals. Cooking at high temperature can eliminate vitamins present in vegetables.
To have a powerful soup, mix up carrot, onion, oregano, shiitake mushrooms, fresh ginger, cabbage, seaweeds, blended with squash in chicken. Each of these components has its respective contributions, ginger facilitates digestion, cabbage enhances capability to fight infections, and shiitake mushrooms contain vitamins, coumarin, sterols and polysaccharides, which are all necessary for proper immune functioning. The other components are good for general health.
3. Cleaning Your Body
Soups are liquid and they help to remove waste. However, combining a soup with detoxifying ingredients can clean our body extensively. This can alleviate inflammation, enhance blood circulation, aid the lever, and rejuvenate the body with fresh minerals.
A recipe that could be detoxifying is Brussels, cabbage, collards, dandelion, cilantro, swiss chard, anise, garlic, fennel, ginger, leeks, kale, mustard greens, shiitake mushrooms, turmeric, seaweed, daikon radish, watercress and turmeric. Consuming around 8 to 12 ounce of this soup twice a day has tremendous therapeutic value.
4. Heat the body
In cold weathers, a hot soup can boost up the heat of the body. It provides warming energy. Some of the warming ingredients present in soups are onions, spinach, leeks, kale, yams, garlic, broccoli, scallions, parsley, quinoa, turnips and scallions.
5. Fighting Infections
Soups are an ideal healing food. There are many reasons behind this. First, it improves digestion, removing infections. Homemade chicken noodle soup has some powerful inhibiting inflammatory elements. It does also tend to facilitate nasal secretions. Soups do not only tackle infection from one spectrum but it also removes it from the body.
Medicine is in some culture more widely accepted. However, Chinese medicine tonic soups are a usual treatment for seasonal flu and other illnesses. Soups can appear to be healthier than expected even by grandmothers.
Source: Dr Mao
Mon, Jan 25, 2010
Gerontology, Health And Aging, Lifestyle