Shaw - Lemon Health Benefits: Lemons for Healthy Skin, Hair, Cleaning, and Weight Loss

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Health Benefits of Lemons: Introduction

Lemons offer far more than delicious smells and a sour flavor. This small, bright yellow fruit comes with many potential uses, from cleaning your home to improving your health. Add flavor to delicious dishes, treat skin problems, improve your hair, or add years to your life by harnessing the power of the lemon.

The power of lemons has been used for centuries. Lemons have been a popular cooking ingredient and cure-all in Asian countries, especially since the lemon tree is native to the area. Although lemon trees are native to Asia, eventually lemon trees were cultivated in Europe, and later, Christopher Columbus would introduce them to the Americas.

Although multiple types of lemons exist, different types of lemons generally contain about the same amounts of nutrients. One raw lemon without its peel has only 17 calories, 0.6 grams of protein, and 0.2 grams of fat. Unlike many other fruits, lemons are very low in sugar with only 1.5 grams of sugar per lemon. Of course, lemons are well known for their high vitamin C content, and a single lemon offers you approximately 51% of your daily vitamin C needs. Other important vitamins and minerals found in lemons include:

Phosphorus

Vitamin B6

Thiamin

Copper

Iron

Riboflavin

Manganese

Potassium

Magnesium

Calcium

Pantothenic acid

Since lemons are packed with so many important vitamins and minerals, they offer some excellent health benefits. According to Medical News Today, some of the potential health benefits of consuming lemons regularly include maintaining healthy skin, cancer prevention, a stronger immune system, decreased risk of heart disease, and a lower risk of obesity.

Of course, while adding lemons to your food or drinks offer many health benefits, lemons also offer some incredible beauty benefits as well. Eating lemons is known for improving skin health, but lemons can be used topically for beautiful skin as well. From exfoliating your skin to healing breakouts, lemons provide an excellent, all-natural skincare treatment. Lemons can also be used on your hair for shiny, healthy hair.

Beyond the beauty benefits of lemons, lemons can also be used for eco-friendly, safe cleaning in your home. Instead of using cleaners that are packed with toxic chemicals, lemons can be used for cleaning the bathroom, your kitchen, and more. Not only are they an eco-friendly choice, but cleaning with lemons leaves your home smelling wonderful when youre done.

Cooking with lemon is a great way to enjoy the health benefits of lemons while adding flavor to your favorite dishes. Lemons amp up the flavor of chicken, add a zing to your favorite soups, and turn desserts into something special.

If youre not using the small but powerful lemon regularly, youre missing all the incredible benefits lemons have to offer. If youre ready to start reaping the benefits of lemons, heres a closer look at the health benefits of lemons, drinking warm lemon water, how to use lemons for beauty purposes, information on cleaning with lemons, and so much more.

Overall Health Benefits of Lemons

You don't really consider lemons to be one of the foods that are a powerhouse when it comes to nutrition. In fact, the simple little lemon has a lot to offer when it comes to overall good health and great nutrition.
Lemons are slightly oval and depending on the variety, they feature very thin smooth skin or a thicker dappled and textured skin. Again, depending on the variety that you get, they are sweet or quite sour. The very acidic taste comes from citric acid that is a part and parcel of what's good for you in the lemon.

Originally lemons were grown as a hybrid cross between a citron and a lime. They are believed to have originated in East and have been known to be cultivated for consumption for more than 2500 years. They were brought to Europe by Arabic travelers in about the 1100s. The Crusaders are given credit with bringing them back to England and other parts of Europe when they traveled in and around Palestine.
Like many other citrus fruits, lemons are packed with flavonoids. These compounds feature anti cancer properties as well as antioxidant properties. Some lemons can actually prevent the division of cells that cause cancer. In addition to these awesome benefits, both lemons and limes are an outstanding source of Vitamin C. Vitamin C is an antioxidant and one of the most important ones that we find in nature.
What Vitamin C does is to travel throughout our bodies and neutralize the free radicals that it contacts in the fluid areas of the body. It neutralizes those both inside and outside the cell.
Free radicals can cause problems inside the body by damaging membranes, causing inflammatory responses and are known to be responsible for some autoimmune responses.

Because free radicals may be a causative agent in autoimmune disorders, Vitamin C has been reviewed and is considered one type of treatment for lowering the inflammation that can occur with diseases such as Rheumatoid and osteo arthritis.
Free radicals may also damage the vessels of the body and can allow cholesterol to build up in the system. Vitamin C is a helpful preventive measure for heart disease and is known for slowing the progression of atherosclerosis.
All in all, Vitamin C has some surprising benefits. Just a small amount of this water soluble vitamin can be remarkably helpful to your body. Vitamin C and specifically that which is found in lemons and limes has been shown to reduce the risk of mortality from nearly every causative factor, including cancer, stroke, and heart disease.