Why Popeye Eat Spinach?

Anyone would know the Popeye cartoon character who dibambarkan as brave sailors.He suddenly had super strength every time the ate a can of spinach. So much do the benefits of spinach?
As a work of fiction, of course, is fine if the cartoon is a bit dramatized the effects of eating spinach. Popeye in normal conditions has a small stature and emaciated, 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 in the era of the 1930s.
At that time, Popeye cartoons were part of a campaign to eat vegetables among children. Although containing many nutrients, vegetables are less liked by children because it is considered bad.
Quoted from the BBC, Sunday (30/05/2010), spinach is rich in 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, hemorrhoids and irritable bowel syndrome.
Although not many clinical trials, spinach believed to overcome some health problems such as:clean up the blood after childbirthstrengthen hair rootsprevent low blood pressureprevent anemia (anemia)prevent kidney failureSome people even believe that spinach is also efficacious for:prevent decreased visionprevent cataractsprevent cancer.Campaign through cartoons can be said to succeed, because the consumption of spinach in the U.S. increased by 33 percent when the popularity of the cartoon Popeye the sailor so explosive. However, there are interesting rumors behind this covert campaign.
Rumors are associated with the selection of spinach as Popeye's secret weapon.There are lots of 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 historical mistake about the amount of iron in spinach. In 1870, a scientist named Dr.. E. von Wolf misplaced 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 Popeye was already known as spinach eaters. In those days, only then revealed that the iron in vegetables is only 1 / 10 of that written by Dr. Wolf.
But this rumor was denied by Dr. Mike Sutton, scientists are trying to track down the error associated iron in Popeye's favorite food. In conclusion, published in the Internet Journal of Ciminology in 2009, he stated that no sufficient evidence of such errors.
Dr. Sutton calls it, the spinach was chosen not because it contains iron, but because it is rich in vitamin A. Whatever it is, lots of eating spinach and other vegetables will still provide health benefits. Congratulations to eat spinach.