Shark Fin Benefits

Eating shark fin soup has become a tradition in Chinese culture to celebrate important events and is considered beneficial for some diseases. Actually, whether the efficacy of this shark fin?

Intake of shark fins has become an industry worth billions of dollars because the soup is considered a luxury food, classy and a menu of honor in a wedding, birthday or other important events.

Based on Chinese medical book known to benefit from this shark fin include skin rejuvenation, increased appetite, useful for energy, for kidney, lung, bone and other body parts, as quoted from FAO.org, Wednesday (2 / 2 / 2011).

Presumably these health benefits derived from shark fins and snout made of cartilage. Sharks are known to have strong resistance to infection and immunity against cancer. Scientists trying to link this with proteins and minerals in shark fin cartilage.

Some other health benefits are also thought to be derived from this shark fin, such as treating diseases artrithis. Researchers from the University of Maryland Medical Center said one of the sources of non-human chondroitin is a shark fin. Chondroitin helps the body by stimulating the growth of cartilage to relieve symptoms associated with osteoarthritis..