【Onions are more effective than osteoporosis medicine】 Housewives don’t love to cook with onions, handling them can make people’s eyes water, and many people are afraid of the onion flavor. Unless it’s a skillful onion dish, it’s really hard to find onion lovers. But if you want to make your bones strong, grow taller and prevent osteoporosis, you’d better hold your nose and eat onions. Onion is one of the best vegetables to prevent bone loss. Onions are even more effective at preventing bone loss than osteoporosis medications. Researchers gave male rats one gram of dried onions a day for four weeks, and the rats’ bone mass increased by an average of 13.5-18%. Another set of experiments found that rats fed a vegetable mix containing onions also reduced bone loss. In a third group of experiments, female rats with their ovaries removed were given 1.5 grams of onions per day, resulting in a 25% reduction in the rate of bone loss. More notably, the health benefits of onions were seen in just 12 hours. The researchers believe that the effect of onions may come from “preventing bone loss”, so people who want to use onions for health care may need to eat 200-300 grams (10 ounces) of onions per day to prevent osteoporosis. Medicine and food, in our daily food, there are many vegetables and fruits have drug-like therapeutic effects. Like onions, which are an indispensable side dish in Western cuisine, its benefits to the body are beyond imagination. Onion scrambled eggs, or onion fried beef, are delicious and healthy dishes; and onions can also be used to eat raw or juice to drink, according to medical experiments, it can play a variety of miraculous therapeutic effects. [Onions can prevent high cholesterol] According to Harvard Medical School Professor of Cardiology Dr. Kdogelwich pointed out that eating half an onion raw every day, or drinking an equal amount of onion juice, on average, can increase the HDL content of heart disease patients by about 30% (HDL for high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, a kind of cholesterol that is thought to help prevent atherosclerosis, but also a kind of good cholesterol. [Onions can break down fat] Dr. Keto conducted experiments on patients in his clinic and proved that onions do have the effect of raising good cholesterol, but the more cooked the onions were, the less effective they were. Dr. Keto let the clinic’s heart patients eat onions every day, the results found that onions contain compounds can also prevent platelet coagulation, and accelerate the dissolution of blood clots. Therefore, when you enjoy high-fat food, it is best to match some onions, will help offset high-fat food caused by blood clots; so that steak is usually eaten with onions, is very reasonable. Onions can prevent stomach cancer] Onions and garlic, scallions, leeks, these onion vegetables, because they contain anti-cancer chemicals, researchers in Shandong Province, China, a high rate of gastric cancer in the place of the survey found that when the more onions eat, the lower the chances of getting stomach cancer. Onions contain at least three natural anti-inflammatory chemicals that can treat asthma. Because onions can inhibit the activity of histamine, and histamine is a chemical that can cause asthma allergy symptoms; according to German research, onions can make asthma attack rate down 【Onions can treat diabetes】 A long time ago, onions were used to treat diabetes, to the modern era, medical science has also proved that onions can indeed lower blood sugar; and no matter whether it is eaten raw or cooked food, are equally effective. It turns out that there is an anti-diabetic compound in onions, similar to the commonly used oral hypoglycemic agent mesylate, which has the effect of stimulating the synthesis and release of insulin. [Onion has a variety of other therapeutic effects] onion is not only the above, in daily life, onion can also be used to combat insomnia: will be chopped onion placed on the pillow, onion unique stimulating components, will play a calming effect on the nerves, sleep inducing magical effect. When you have a cold, drink hot miso soup with onions to bring down the fever in no time. If you have a stuffy nose, hold a small slice of onion against your nostrils, and the stimulating odor of the onion will instantly clear up your nose. If you have a cough, wrapping a chopped onion in gauze and covering the throat to the chest can also quickly suppress a cough.