An Amla a day, keeps cold, coughs and flu away.
An indigenous fruit, Amla has a long tradition of being used as a therapeutic fruit across all regions of India. Indian homes and our dadis, nanis, appas, ammas have always known about the benefits of Amla, then why did it lose favour in modern India? Well, one reason is that the farmer cannot buy billboards or sponsor TV shows like orange juice makers or kiwi sellers can. And your grandmom doesn’t speak with an accent or tells you about its benefits from an exotic locale. Toh follow the money and you will figure where we lost our common sense.
Why?
Eating one amla daily in winters (because that is its season) will –
- Prevent cold, coughs and flus and even help you recover from them
- Help you burn fat and sport a slimmer waist
- Improve insulin sensitivity and help regulate blood sugars
- Regulate production of cholesterol and has cardio-protective abilities
- Provide 20 times, you heard that right, the Vit C of orange. So, if you are tired, dull, irritated, it will help perk you up.
- Work as a co-factor for iron assimilation. So if you are low on Hb, have this. Especially useful for all of you who have a tough time waking up, are around puberty, have bad PMS or endometriosis.
- Prevent wrinkling and greying of hair (even used as a hair dye).
- Improve eye sight, oral health and help healk bruises faster.
- Rich in Vit B1 and B2, will help you if have heavy flow on second day of the period.
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