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Not only are sweet potatoes readily available, inexpensive, and delicious, there are many other
reasons to love these yummy vegetables. Here are 9:
1. They are high in vitamin B6. Vitamin B6 helps reduce the chemical homocysteine in our
bodies. Homocysteine has been linked with degenerative diseases, including the prevention of
heart attacks.
2. They are a good source of vitamin C. While most people know that vitamin C is important to
help ward off cold and flu viruses, few people are aware that this crucial vitamin plays an important
role in bone and tooth formation, digestion, and blood cell formation. It helps accelerate wound
healing, produces collagen which helps maintain skins youthful elasticity, and is essential
to helping us cope with stress. It even appears to help protect our body against toxins that may be
linked to cancer.
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3. They contain Vitamin D which is critical for immune system and overall health at this time of
year. Both a vitamin and a hormone, vitamin D is primarily made in our bodies as a result of getting
adequate sunlight. You may have heard about seasonal affective disorder (or SAD, as it is also
called), which is linked to inadequate sunlight and therefore a vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D plays
an important role in our energy levels, moods, and helps to build healthy bones, heart,
nerves, skin, and teeth, and it supports the thyroid gland.
4. Sweet potatoes contain iron. Most people are aware that we need the mineral iron to have
adequate energy, but iron plays other important roles in our body, including red and white blood
cell production, resistance to stress, proper immune functioning, and the metabolizing of
protein, among other things.
5. Sweet potatoes are a good source of magnesium, which is the relaxation and anti-
stress mineral. Magnesium is necessary for healthy artery, blood, bone, heart, muscle, and nerve
function, yet experts estimate that approximately 80 percent of the population in North America may
be deficient in this important mineral.
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4:37am PDT on Apr 21, 2014
only had my first one today and love it.
6:09pm PDT on Mar 12, 2014
Sweet potatoes are wonderful-- Thanks, Michelle, I really like when you
let us know the many ways a food is good for us.
8:14am PST on Feb 1, 2014
I'm guessing the article should read "sweet Potatoes" - not sweet potato
leaves. But thanks for the article!
1:50pm PST on Jan 31, 2014
Sweet potatoes are delicious.Thanks for sharing
2:10pm PST on Jan 28, 2014
I also add cinnamon and some butter to sweet baked potatoes. Love
them about any way they are cooked.
12:13pm PDT on Aug 27, 2013
I love sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes have some great nutritional
values. Thanks for this wonderful insight.
12:23am PDT on Jun 19, 2013
Its really such nice information to get advantage from.
human growth hormone scam
11:42am PDT on May 1, 2013
This is a great site. Another way to consume sweet potatoes is juicing
them through an extractor. Come check out my site at http://www.juice-
extractor-guide.com/sweetpotato.html
10:00am PST on Mar 2, 2013
Sweet potatoes are not too popular in Malta and they're not that cheap
either. Still, if all these benefits really arise from eating sweet potatoes,
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then they're good value for money.
7:32am PST on Feb 8, 2013
I heard they can cause kidney stones. Any truth to that?
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