Celery

Per large stalk:

* 10 calories
* 0 g fat (0 g saturated)
* 51 mg sodium
* 1 g fiber

This water-loaded vegetable has a rep for being all crunch and no nutrition. But ditch that mindset: Celery contains stealth nutrients that heal.

Why it’s healthy

“My patients who eat four sticks of celery a day have seen modest reductions in their blood pressure—about 6 points systolic and 3 points diastolic,” says Mark Houston, M.D., director of the Hypertension Institute at St. Thomas Hospital, in Nashville. It’s possible that phytochemicals in celery called phthalides are responsible for this health boon, since these compounds relax muscle tissue in artery walls and increase bloodflow, according to nutritionist Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., author of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth. And beyond the benefits to your BP, celery also fills you up with almost no calories.

芹菜

每大块芹菜茎中：

* 10卡路里
* 0克脂肪（0克饱和脂肪）
* 51毫克钠
* 1克纤维

这种充满水分的蔬菜是只能嘎吱嘎吱咀嚼而没有营养的代表。但请转变思想：芹菜富含具有治愈功能的神秘营养素。

为什么它是健康的

纳什维尔圣托马斯医院高血压研究所的主管马克休斯顿博士说到：“那些一天吃四根芹菜的病人们的血压有了适度下降——大约6点心缩压和3点心缩压”。根据《地球上150种最健康食物》的作者，营养学家约翰鲍登博士的说法，很可能芹菜里一种叫做苯酞的植物化学物质有助于健康，因为这些化合物放松了动脉壁中的肌肉组织，增加了血流量。芹菜除了对血压的益处外，还能够使你吃饱但几乎没有带来卡路里。