In new study researchers claimed that humble red onion can help in preventing heart disease. The vegetable which is used frequently in Mediterranean and Indian cookery, helps eliminating bad cholesterol from your body. Cholesterol becomes the key factor in causing heart attack and stroke.
All together red onion maintains levels of good cholesterol in the body that help protect against cardiovascular diseases. Since long, onion has been known for many health benefits including preventing common cough and cold, cancer and heart disease. Several parts of the world where onion consumption is high have even shown much lower cancer rates.
In a study trail, research team from Hong Kong nourished crushed up onion to hamsters to those had been put on high cholesterol diet. After eight week, they found that levels of LDL (low density lipoprotein) or bad cholesterol had dropped by twenty percent. But no reduction was seen in the levels of HDL (high density lipoprotein).
In spite of widespread research on onion, little is known about of how their consumption interacts with genes and proteins of human being which are involved in cholesterol metabolism within the body, explained Zhen Yu Chen, who was the in charge of the research carried out at university of Hong Kong.
Their study was therefore carried out to typify the interaction of onions with enzymes in an effort to travel around the underlying cholesterol-lowering device. This was the first study of its type that examined the interaction of red onions with biological functions, added Zhen Yu Chen.
This finding shores up the claim that the regular consumption of onion lessens the risk of coronary heart disease. In China, where people consume more onions and garlic than somewhere else in the world, the jeopardy of stomach cancer is forty percent lower than normal.