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The Powers of Soup

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by dimaks in Life

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I am all-beaten and stressed out today due to our extended training on “urban road network management in Asian countries” and all I could do inside the training room was sip coffee, stand up, assist participants, sit down, discuss then back to sipping coffee.. glad I am not a lecturer for this event. With all that, a random opening of Yahoo main page showed me this interesting article on “The amazing healing powers of soup” or the power of soup therapy, so to speak.

What is this Soup Therapy by the way and what are these so called amazing healing powers that we can derive from our local soups? Dr. Maoshing Ni, a Yahoo! Health Expert for Alternative Medicine is all glad to share with these interesting regarding soups. Dr. Maoshing unselfishly shared the following 5 items that we can exploit from our very common local food, as listed:

1. Lose weight with soup - With the increasing cases of people suffering from obesity, hypertension and complication like diabetes, eating nutritious low-salt soups once  a day will flush away excess wastes from your body.

2. Build your immunity- With selected vegetables and spices that you boil as soup, you can enhance your body’s immune system. For example, Cabbage is a vegetable that can increase your body’s ability to fight infection, while ginger promotes healthy digestion, and seaweed as body cleanser. A note of advise though that soups have to be boiled in low heat since the process destroys half of the vitamins contained in the vegetables.

3. Detoxify your body – Certain broths detoxify the body and initiates flushing of wastes from the human body. Anise, brussels sprouts, cabbage, Swiss chard, cilantro, collards, dandelion, fennel, garlic, ginger, kale, leeks, shiitake mushrooms, mustard greens, daikon radish, seaweed, turmeric, and watercress are some of the ingredients that one can use for detoxification.

4. Warm up with a hearty soup – In Chinese terminology, there is this nutrition that they call “warming energy” from warming foods such as leeks, onions, turnips, spinach, kale, broccoli, quinoa, yams, squash, garlic, scallions, and parsley.

5. Get well faster – If you notice, most advises that you can have when sick is that you take soup as the primary intake during meals. The main reason is that, soups do not require the human digestive system to work hard compared to digesting other kinds of foods which are mostly solid, thus it frees the body up to fight any possible infection.

Thanks to Dr. Maoshing Ni! As he puts it, “May you live long, live strong, and live happy!”

Source: health.yahoo.com

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