DATES
Dates Improve Digestive Health Dates are great foods for digestive health. If you have problems like IBS, constipation or many other digestive and GI problems, or know somebody who has, dates can help. Part of it is the fibre that they contain and they have been shown to reduce your risk of colon cancer and more. Dates are even recommended treatments for haemorrhoids. Dates as Pain Relievers & More Containing so much magnesium – which is an anti-inflammatory – dates work in your favour relieving the pain and help swelling. Studies have shown that the magnesium in dates can help reduce arterial inflammation and that lowers your risk for heart disease as well as a host of other inflammation caused conditions like Alzheimer’s, arthritis and more. Dates for a Healthy Pregnancy Recently, there has been a study done at UST tested how well dates can help with labour and delivery. The researchers tested 69 women and came to the conclusion that if the women ate dates during the las...