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Popeye was right

SCIENTIFIC STUDY

Popeye was right: spinach músculsLa reinforce the key is abundant nitrate in the plant become more efficient mitochondria
A scientific study showed that Popeye was right to boast that they force their it came from spinach. As is known, the famous sailor, a comic strip character and after the American cartoon films, swallowing the contents of a can of spinach every time I had to use their muscles to get out of a problem. Image
Classic Popeye the sailor.

Now, researchers have discovered that eating a plate of spinach every day actually increases muscular efficiency. The consumption of 300 grams of spinach reduces by 5% the amount of oxygen necessary for the functioning of the muscles during exercise, according to a study published in the journal Cell Metabolism.
Contrary to "popular knowledge", the secret is not in the iron nitrate but very abundant in this vegetable, which become more efficient mitochondria, which are giving energy to the cells.
"It's as if you put fuel in the muscles. It makes work much more smoothly and efficiently," says one of the authors of the study, Dr. Eddie Weitzberg, Institute Karolinska, Stockholm.
To demonstrate this, the scientists gave a group of volunteers during three days of nitrate supplementation pure, equivalent to a plate of spinach. At the beginning and end of the experiment was pedaling a stationary bike while measuring their oxygen consumption, which was between 3 and 5% lower after three days of intake of spinach.
"It is a profound and significant effect. It shows that Popeye was right," said the expert