Do you want tone up muscles? Try eating spinach. A study conducted by researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm shows that nitrate help to tone up muscles. Nitrate can be found in vegetables such as spinach. The researchers used mice for the test. Nitrate was placed in the drinking water of a group of mice. Researchers then compared this group of mice with another group which was drinking a normal drinking water, where this group of mice served as control. They found out that the mice that had consistent nitrate had stronger muscles. The amount of nitrate used is equivalent to a human’s consumption of 200 to 250 grams of spinach a day. Other than increasing our muscles’ strength, eating spinach can also increase of endurance level during work out. The researchers are still doing some research to help people with weak muscles, muscles disease and even ageing.
This articles appeals to me because I did not know that spinach can really help to strengthen our muscles. Apart from that, males nowadays, especially the teenagers want to have tone up body. So, this is one way for them to be able to increase the size of their muscles.
What I dislike about this research is that they are using mice as their research materials. Therefore, we do not really know whether spinach can really help strengthen humans’ muscles as mice and humans are quite different. Therefore, the effects of consuming spinach might be different for us and the mice.
Whatever it is, we cannot deny that vegetables such as spinach can actually help us to have better body and improve our health as we need to consume at least 2 serving of vegetable every day. Therefore boys, if you want to have bigger muscles, listen to Popeye and eat more spinach.