- The various nutrients present in cabbage such as vitamin-E which keeps the skin, eye and hair healthy, calcium, magnesium, potassium, etc., are very useful for overall health.
- Cabbage is extremely low in calories (1 cup has 39 calories), and as such often used in weight-loss treatments, such as the cabbage-soup diet. This diet is designed around heavy consumption of a low-calorie cabbage soup over a week for short-term weight loss.
- Cabbage is an excellent home remedy for obesity for another reason - it contains a chemical called tartaric acid which inhibits the conversion of sugars and other carbohydrates into fat.
- A simple but effective remedy for weight-loss would be to substitute meals with cabbage salads.
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- To start a meal or as a light meal, cabbage soup is good for you, it is delicious and it allows you to get your fill of vitamins. Become the accomplice of a healthy and balance nutrition. Because it is rich in vegetables, it is loaded with fiber. Fiber facilitates elimination, but it also has the distinct advantage to give you a feeling of being full. To enjoy a bowl of cabbage soup just before a meal is therefore the best way to limit excessive eating for the rest of the meal.
- Cabbage reduces cholesterol and promotes heart health.
- Cabbage can provide you with some special cholesterol-lowering benefits if you will cook it by steaming. The fiber-related components in cabbage do a better job of binding together with bile acids in your digestive tract when they've been steamed. When this binding process takes place, it's easier for bile acids to be excreted, and the result is a lowering of your cholesterol levels. Raw cabbage still has cholesterol-lowering ability, just not as much as steamed cabbage.
- Cabbage is a low-glycemic food, which will help control blood sugar and insulin. Controlling blood sugar and insulin are keys to weight loss.
- Cabbage purifies blood and removes toxins
- Cabbage is also high in potassium which helps control high blood pressure.
- Cabbage, being rich in iodine, helps in proper functioning of the brain and the nervous system.
- Recent studies have shown that cabbage also lowers the risk of many types of cancer, such as prostate, colo-rectal, breast, lung, bladder, and ovarian cancer.
- Cabbage contains large amount of Vitamin C, glutamine and amino acid. Cabbage contains Sulphur and histidine which strengthen the immune system and reduce the growth of tumors.
- The health benefits of cabbage include treatment of constipation, stomach ulcers, headache, excess weight, skin disorders, eczema, jaundice, scurvy, rheumatism, arthritis, gout, eye disorders, heart diseases, ageing, and Alzheimer's disease.
