Spinach Can Strengthen Muscles!

Legendary cartoon character "Popeye the Sailor" had a weapon that makes it very powerful in an instant, that is a can of spinach. Not only in the cartoon story, the efficacy of spinach to strengthen muscles has now been scientifically proven.

Recent research conducted by experts from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden found that spinach contains certain compounds that are able to strengthen muscles. Compounds of iron that was not as expected so far, but nitrate.

For muscle cells, nitrate is able to stimulate mitochondrial energy or kitchen to be able to work more efficiently. The cells in the muscle mitochondria to be able to produce energy in larger amounts, although with the amount of oxygen less.

Improving the ability of mitochondria to produce energy efficiently can be felt only within 3 days. With regular nitrate consumption of 300 grams / day, the muscles need for oxygen decreases significantly, ie between 3-5 percent.

"The function of nitric similar fuel additive aka octan booster on vehicle engines. The compound is able to make the muscles work more smooth and efficient," said Dr. Eddie Weitzberg, who led the study, as quoted by the Telegraph on Wednesday (02/02/2011).

Benefits of spinach for muscle popularized by the cartoon character "Popeye the Sailor 'popular since the 1930s. The film is initially lifted from the comic story is part of a campaign to eat vegetables in the United States at the time and claimed success increase vegetable consumption among children by 33 percent.

Initially, many suspect that the benefits of spinach are located on the iron content. Because of garanya in a study in 1870, Dr E von Wolf misplaced commas, so people think that spinach contains iron in the amount of 10 times more than the actual