What Are Some Of The Health Benefits Of Lemons?

What are some of the health benefits of lemons? Lemons have a reliable source of Vitamin C and research studies have shown that ingesting Vitamin C regularly can reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. Vitamin C is important because of the high antioxidant effect that can help with reducing lots of chronic diseases.

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Citric acid in lemons has been shown in studies to prevent kidney stones. How this happens is the citric acid can increase the volume of your urine volume and urine PH. There was one study that showed that a ½ cup of lemon juice per day may provide enough citric acid to help prevent stone formation in people who already had them.

There are many observational studies that show that eating fruits regularly can reduce the risk of cancer, particularly citrus fruits. It is important to know that there are also studies that show it has no effect.

Lemons have also been shown to improve digestive health and this is because of the fiber in them. The main fiber in lemons is pectin and it is a form of soluble fiber that can improve your gut health and slow the digestion of starch and sugars. And the result is lower blood sugar levels.

To really get all the benefits of eating lemons you need to eat the pulp because most of the fiber is there. Lemons contain quite a bit of iron, and this can help prevent anemia. People that have iron deficient anemia typically don’t eat enough meat, chicken, fish, etc. And vegetarians are the type of people that are in this category because they don’t eat meat. So, they must try to get their iron from plant based sources which isn’t easy/

The Bottom Line is some of the health benefits of eating lemons are improved digestive health, more iron in your body and a higher number of antioxidants because of the high vitamin C in it.

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