> > > >Here's another health tip. > > > >REALLY!!! > > >Did you know that SWEET POTATO (kamote)far exceeds the nutrition and health >values of rice? > >Here are the benefits of substituting rice with kamote: > >1. Sweet potatois more filling and suppresses hunger pangs longer. It is also >cheaper than rice. > > >2. Unlike rice, it is easy to grow. It grows in backyards with or without >fertilizers. Local government executives can provide their poor communities >with >idle government land for planting kamotewhich the entire community can share. > > >3. Unlike rice which needs to be eaten with a dish, sweet potato tastes good >and >can be eaten by itself. Thus, substituting rice with sweet potatosaves money >for >other needs. > > >4. Rice cannot match the nutritional values of sweet potato.Because rice >converts to sugar in the body, the Philippinesregisters as a top producer of >diabetics in the world. >The poor tends to load up on rice and less on the dish which are more >expensive. >That makes them vulnerable to diabetes, an ailment known in developed >countries >as a rich man’s disease. > > >5. The nutritional values of a3 oz. baked sweet potato are: calories 90, fat 0 >g, saturated fat0 g, cholesterol0 mg, carbohydrate21 g, protein2 g, dietary >fiber3 g, sodium36 mg, vitamin A19,218 IU, folic acid6 micrograms, pantothenic >acid1 mg, vitamin B6<1 mg, vitamin C20 mg, vitamin E1 mg, calcium38 >mg,manganese1 mg, carotenoids11,552 mcg, potassium475 mg and magnesium45 mg. > >Compare that to a 100 g serving of white rice with: calories361 kcal, >water10.2 >g, total fat0.8g, dietary fiber0.6 g, calcium8 mg, phosphorous87 mg, >potassium111 mg, sodium31 mg, vitamin B10.07 mg, vitamin B20.02 mg, niacin1.8 >g, protein 6 g and carbohydrates82 g. >6. Too much rice consumption can make you sick, but sweet potato (kamote)can >bring you to health and keep away some health problems. These have been proved >medically. > > >In a medical documentary I watched recently on KBS World (theSouth Korean TV >Network),I was awed by the results of the researchthe Koreansconducted on the >nutritional and medicinal benefits ofkamote(which they refer to as sweet >potato). > > >In that Koreanmedical documentary I watched (which I followed through the >English subtitles), they presented the research findings on people with >established health problems who were placed on a kamote/sweet potatodiet. > > >Believe it or not– sweet potato (kamote)lowers hypertension, bad >cholesteroland >evenblood sugarwhen eaten as SUBSTITUTE TO RICE! >Thepurplesweet potato (kamote) is particularly effective forlowering >hypertension. > > >Not only that, theKorean medical documentarycredits thesweet potato (kamote) >as >high fiberand is one of the best foods that one can eat to prevent cancer! > > >For those who are only impressed byUSdoctors, read this: >the North Carolina Stroke Association, American Cancer Society, and the >American >Heart Association have all endorsed the sweetpotatofor its disease prevention >and healing qualities. > > >The Americans, the South Koreans– both progressive nations – have raised >thekamote to a high pedestal. Many of them even call the sweet potatoa “super >food that heals.” > > > > > > > > > > >
