Why is the Blood been considered to be part of our health.

_{Blood is the essence of life}

Thanks to @mesola and @disconnect for making me find this post I'm pretty versed with such topics and will see it as a pleasure to share my knowledge with the steemit community and members of the @healthysteem about the reasons Blood is considered to be part of our health...

👉What is blood

Blood is the liquid usually colored red that flows in the body of human beings through channels known as veins and arteries and capillaries. It conveys body nutrients, oxygen and Carbon dioxide to and from the heart to other parts of the body.

👉Why do we need blood

In this case I'd like to compare the body of Humans to that of a car that runs on petrol, the car is run by petrol and thus it is able to move and transport people to places, once the petrol is finished, the car stops functioning this is the same case for a human when it comes to blood. Petrol is to a car as blood is to a human we need blood to transport energy and nutrients and oxygen and carbon dioxide and many ions from one part of our body to another with the pumping of the heart this red liquid runs the entire body of Humans and without it just like I demonstrated with the car, we stop function

👉Mention the different functions of the blood

Blood functions in our body in the following ways,

• Transport of nutrients like calcium, potassium, from one part of the body to another.
• Transport of energy in the form of Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to the body muscles for articulation, and lifting weights.
• Blood also transport vital body gases such as oxygen from the lungs to the body muscles and carbon dioxide from the body muscles to the lungs for expelling.
• Removal of waste products from the body, wastes such as urea, carbon dioxide from various organs of the body to the outside part of the body, if this wastes are not removed, it causes damage to the body system
• Blood assists in defense, this defense comes in 2 ways the first is the mechanical defense which is during a body cut, the blood performs the process called clotting which seals up the wound and regenerates the body cells, the second part comes in the form of immune defense which protects the body from invading pathogens that seek to cause diseases in our body systems.

👉What kind of food should we eat to get a healthy blood

The various foods we take in to get a healthy food differ in location and diet, some will prefer a particular type of vegetables that's specific to that area while others will prefer taking food supplements to enhance blood health. But here are a few foods I'd take to get a healthy blood...

• Fruits such as tomatoes, oranges, pomegranate, watermelon, provide the blood with nutrients and water and the more water the blood has, the more capable it is to transport food, nutrients, body gases and energy.

• Onions, these are good sources of flavonoids and oxidants which benefits the blood. There is so much chemistry into this that I can explain now, other foods like cocoa nibs also provide great amounts of flavonoids.

• Cinnamon contains abilities to improve on blood flow

• Fatty fish these provide omega 3 which are natural supplements for your blood cavities and improve on blood flow.

I conclude my presentation here with a say that we need blood as humans same way as cars need fuel to run, most times there are persons who don't have enough blood in their body systems due to certain condition (anaemia, sickle cell etc..) and so there is need for blood transfusions to be done. I'll be inviting @chant, @patjewell,@ettete to the contest.