Why Popeye Eat Spinach?

Anyone would know Popeye, cartoon characters are portrayed as brave sailors. He suddenly had super strength every time the ate a can of spinach. So large a benefit of spinach?

As a work of fiction, of course, is fine if the cartoon is a bit dramatized the effects of eating spinach. Popeye is in normal condition has the posture of small and wiry, in a flash able to fight Brutus, who bodied the main enemy is much greater after eating spinach.

Popeye cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, and was introduced in comic strip form in early 1929. Quickly, the figure is also depicted always chewed tobacco pipe was successfully achieved popularity during the 1930s.

In those days, Popeye cartoons are part of a campaign to eat vegetables among children. Although containing many nutrients, vegetables are less favored by the kids because it is considered bad.

Spinach is very rich content of various vitamins from A to K. It also contains many minerals, including potassium, phosphorus, magnesium and iron.

Spinach also contains other nutrients such as various essential amino acids and fiber. Fibers contained in spinach can prevent constipation, hemorrhoid and irritable bowel syndrome.

Although not many clinical trials, spinach believed to overcome some health problems such as:
1. purify the blood after childbirth
2. strengthen hair roots
3. prevent low blood pressure
4. prevent anemia (anemia)
5. prevent kidney failure


Some people even believe that spinach is also efficacious for: 
1. prevent the decrease of vision
2. prevent cataracts
3. prevent cancer.


Campaigns can be told through cartoons succeed, because the consumption of spinach in the United States recorded an increase to 33 percent when the popularity of the cartoon Popeye the sailor was so explosive. Still, there are interesting rumors, this hidden behind the campaign.

Rumors are associated with the selection of spinach as Popeye's secret weapon. There are many vegetables or other fruits are also rich in nutrients, but the creators chose spinach as the 'fuel' for this brave sailor.

Presumably the reason related to historical errors about the amount of iron content in spinach. In 1870, a scientist named Dr. E. Wolf von mislay comma when writing the content of iron in spinach. This error causes excessive belief about the benefits of spinach.

Nobody realizes mistakes until 70 years later, when already known as Popeye eating spinach. At that time, only then revealed that the iron content in vegetables is only one tenth of which was written by Dr. Wolf.

But this rumor was denied by Dr. Mike Sutton, scientists are trying to track down the error-related content of iron in the Popeye's favorite food. In conclusion, published in the Internet Journal of Ciminology year 2009, he referred to was not enough evidence about the existence of these errors.

Dr. Sutton calls it, the spinach was chosen not because it contains iron, but because the rich in vitamin A. Whatever it is, many consume spinach and other vegetables will still provide benefits for health.

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