What benefits for health had polenta?

Polenta is a very common food on tables of Romanians. However, this food is said to be poor.
However, the benefits of this food are surprising. Even nutritionists recommend eating polenta. Among the benefits of this food are protecting the stomach, liver detoxification and increase lifetime.

Corn is the only grain that contains carotene (provitamin A), a powerful antioxidant. Also, the researchers found that maize as food grains, solve biliary problems and is a protector against cancer. Polenta is a blessing to the liver. Corn detoxifying substances makes it easier for the body to neutralize the toxic substances, reducing the risk of the failure and cirrhosis.

In populations consuming maize porridge daily, the incidence of liver disease is 10 times smaller, and children develop better. Gastritis and ulcers are improved by the use of hot polenta instead of bread dough with acid reducing effect and soothing. And the benefits do not stop there. In muscle development, polenta make miracles. More specifically, a philosopher noted, incidentally, that the most able children to sports performance in Ecuador and Colombia have a diet rich in "maize porridge." Based on this observation, he initiated an extensive research program in sports medicine, discovering that the same substances derived palmitic acid and arachidonic have a role in the development of muscle fiber by changing the method of action of thyroid hormones. 

Also polenta is not fat. So it is idealally in diets. This preparation gives a feeling of satiety extremely fast due to dietary fiber in its composition.