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Eating Chicken Feet can be Good for Your Health

  • Chicken feet are not just the usual street food since it can provide a handful of health benefits.
  • It can help enhance the immune system and strengthens bones, joints, and more.

Chicken feet, also know as “adidas” can be considered as a normal Philippine delicacy that you can often see in stalls that sell barbecues.

Not all, however, do eat them since others think about the safety of the seemingly unlikely snack. But according to a study, chicken feet are more than just your average street food as it can offer a handful of benefits for your body.

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The chicken feet are made up of skin, tendons, and bones that holds numerous proteins, calcium, and collagen which are absorbed through your body.

According to a study from Faculty and Veterinary Science Chung-Hsing University in Taiwan, the quantity of the collagen that is found in chicken feet are the same quantity that is found in green leafy vegetables and fruits.

Collagen is what helps you improve your skin and hair, reduce joint pains and degeneration, helps heal the ‘leaky gut syndrome’, boosts metabolism, muscle mass, and energy output, as well as protects your cardiovascular health.

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It also helps in the production of red blood cells and make your blood vessels sturdier.

Eating chicken feet provides benefits such as: it helps your wounds to cure, enhance the immune system, strengthens your bones and joints, make your gums healthier, keep your nails healthy, lowers your blood pressure, balances your hormones, alleviates digestive issues, revitalizes your skin, and lessens the stress.

Written by J M

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