15 AMAZING HEALTH BENEFITS OF CUCUMBERS🥒🥒

   

      Dietary intake is crucial to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Moreover, eating isn't same thing as knowing what is beneficial to eat.

    You must be at the verge of finding something worthwhile to start or keep taking a fresh dark green "cucumber" for.

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💎Below are some 15 amazing health benefits of cucumber

1) A means of Hydration:- As cucumber contains at least 96% water. It serves as a means of Hydration for the body. Perhaps, you are too busy to drink enough water (just like me), no worries, as you can trust a fresh cucumber fruit to readily compensate.

2) Elimination of toxins:- Toxins/waste products from our body systems are flushed away by the nourishing effect of cucumber, as it serves as a virtual broom. Medically, it helps to dissolve kidney stones.

3) Nourishment with Vitamins:- Vitamins B, C and K including some macro and micro nutrients such as potassium, calcium, silicon and manganese are readily available to keep your skin healthy, radiant and glowing. Especially juicing cucumber with carrot and spinach.

4) Obesity therapy:- Dark green cucumbers aids weight loss. Don't really like your plumpness? Why don't you try out a daily cucumber therapy.

5) Blood pressure regulator:- Cucumber helps to stabilize blood pressure. Thereby keeping your heart in good state and function.

6) Refreshes your mouth:- Consumption of cucumber helps relieve mouth odours and enhances pleasant mouth breath. Also, heals diseased gums.

7) Protects the brain:- This fruit contains an anti-inflammatory "flavonol" called fisetin that makes brain healthy.

8) Smoothens hairs and nails:- A desire for a healthy growth of hairs and nails can be achieved with regular cucumber consumption.

9) It aids digestion:- Irrespective of the type of diet taken, cucumber enhances easy metabolism of these food particles.

10) It contains special Polyphenols:- Lignans such as (pinoresnol, lariciresinol and secoisolariciresinol) are present in cucumbers which could help lower the risk of breast, uterine, ovarian and prostrate cancers

11) It revives the eyes:- Placing chilled slices of cucumber on the eyes is a clichéd beauty visual, but it really helps reduce under-eye bags and puffiness.

12) Muscular soothing:- Slicing, picking or seedless cucumbers help to sooth muscles and joints pains.

13) Great for Diabetes:- Individuals can enjoy cucumber while also reaping its health benefits, as it contains a hormone needed by the cells of the pancreas for producing insulin.

14) Reduction of Cholesterol:- The fruit
Contains compound called sterols, which  helps reduce bad cholesterol.

15) The Kidneys' friend:- Cucumbers are friendly to a paired retro-peritoneal organs, called the kidneys, as they help keep it in shape and function, eliminating uric acids.

✍️Ref:- Student-Nurse Okusanya Oluwatoyin

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