Let talk about coconut

Hello everyone, a warm welcome and lovely greetings to you all, regards to my fellow steemians around the globe, how are you all doing today?, Hope you are enjoying the beautiful and wonderful moments June brings to us, by the way I'm john from Nigeria it's my pleasure having you all in this amazing contest "Let's talk about Coconut." organized here at #Healthy-Steem, I decided to take part in this contest to share my views and perspective with you and as well bring out the best in me when it comes to creativity and amazing contest like this.

It's not a test! Tell us what you do to feel good on a daily basis and if this is part of your routine. If not, tell us why.

As we all know good health is very essential to human being so we have to get to any stage or extent to obtain or achieve it, so the following are what I do to feel good on a daily basis, first when I woke up I pray to God because he is the source of my strength and spiritual power and I maintain good hygiene such as brush my teeth, go for my daily morning jogging and exercise when I come back I sweep my room and surrounding as well, and do other house chores, eat breakfast, before taking my bath, then take a little rest by sleeping, meditating or reading some texts, after that I have to prepare lunch, which I and my siblings will eat when they comes back from school, then In the evening I will go to field to play football, when I come back I take bath before having dinner then go to bed, this are my what I do to feel good on daily basis.

Before I move on with the contest hints and tips I will like you all to know about coconut by definition and explanation ,
According to Britannica website coconut is the edible fruit of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera), a tree of the palm family, do you know that despite the name coconut it not a nut but a fruit known as drupe.

Nutritional Benefits:

Coconut has different and many nutritional and health benefits that many scientists and health experts has discovered and provn right such as it gives us magnesium, copper, zinc, iron and other elements to our body and health, in addition coconut also prevents dehydration and chronic diarrhea, it kills and prevents bacteria, it helps to treat kidney problem and as well reduce pain, even women with menstrual issues can find it useful, it helps in prevention and treatment of heart disease which can cause anxiety and high blood pressure (HBP), it also strengthens bone health, coconut water provide our body with potassium which helps to reduce weights, and many more nutritional benefits given by coconut which I didn't mention here.

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Uses in the Kitchen:

Coconut are used in the kitchen for cooking and preparation of different foods such as making coconut oil, coconut milk, and coconut butter, it is used in making ingredients and spices like savory seasoning, sea salt e.t.c, it can also be used in cooking and making different types of delicious dishes, snacks and drinks which are coconut rice, ice creams, coconut flavour yogurts, mixed alcoholic drinks, curries and smoothie and a healthy refreshing drinks that are very rich and good for our health development and maintenance.

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Medicinal Properties:

Coconut as we all know are medicines and treatments of different kinds of illness and diseases in our body and also prevents and give us some health benefits e.g are antibacterial, anti parasite, antivirus, antioxidant,.antifungal and so on, which helps in Skin care treatment and prevention skin diseases, it boost and improves cognition in our body, prevents and treats kidney issues, it gives us heart benefits and oral hygiene like it prevents mouth odour, it enhance injuries and wound healing and proper hair growth in our body e.t.c

Impact on Beauty and Personal Care:

Most skin care products are made from plants and crops in which coconut is among them
Coconut oil is known to remove dark spots and gives us bright skin, it exfoliates our skin, you can use coconut water for skin lightening or whitening problems, it also reduce sign of ageing skin for the aged ones, it reduces and prevents the level of diabetes and diarrhea in our body, helps in keeping skin moisturized and also helps in healing injuries.

I have finally come to the end of this amazing contest which I like to appreciate #heathy-steem for this amazing contest and also you all that comes across this my blog, I will also like to invite my fellow steemians colleagues @josepha, @sahmie, @saintkelvin17 and @pandora2010 to take part in this contest thanks