How Can Cucumbers Help You In Your Weight Loss Plan?
by Elizabeth King
Eat cucumbers and you'll be vigorous and slender. This vegetable is fresh and juicy, and also it is useful for your health. Hindus and Egyptians opened taste and medicinal properties of cucumber for the whole world in ancient times. But in fact, this product was imported from Greece.
Benefits of cucumber
Cucumbers are 95% of water, but this water performs special function: it helps to dissolve many poisons accumulated in the body and removes toxins. Eating fresh cucumbers or drinking their juice every day, you can achieve splitting stones effect in the gallbladder and bile ducts. Cucumber is also very useful in treating tuberculosis.
Cucumber contains very delicate fiber that has a beneficial effect on digestion, it improves peristalsis of bowels. In fact, cucumbers have low calorie. Also cucumbers include nitrogenous substances, vitamins A, P, C and B, and a lot of minerals. In fact, the diuretic effect of cucumber is very important for edema. Cucumbers contain easy digestible iodine, their consumption is very useful in treating diseases of the thyroid gland and for the prevention of these diseases.
Cucumber's diet: calorie content of a cucumber
Calorie content of a cucumber is 15 kcal per 100g, i.e. 1 kg of cucumbers has only 150 calories. Thanks to tartronic acid that prevents the conversion of carbohydrates into fat, cucumber is recommended for obesity. It is perfect for fasting days of all kinds of diets and weight loss. One of the diet emphasizes eating one fresh cucumber before each meal (without salt), and after 6:00 p.m. you can eat only cucumbers.
Medicinal properties of cucumber
1. If you don't feel well - your face is pale, nails are fragile, sad hair, dental problems - then you need help of this green doctor.
2. If you had a cold and you suffer from cough, take two orthree tablespoons of cucumber juice three times a day with honey (pinch). It has expectorant and bactericidal action.
3. Circles of fresh cucumber or a paste of this fruit can help during burns. Juicy vegetable is recommended for pregnancy and during menstruation - to remove excess fluid from body.
The mask of cucumber
Cucumber is good cosmetic. Fresh cucumber mask cleanses, tones and whitens your skin. You can prepare lotions with this product, drawing with vodka for a week and this lotion tones up your skin, making it elastic and clean, this lotion removes acnes.
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