Health Benefits Of Cucumber

Cucumber is a low calorie vegetable commonly found around. However, very few people tap into the amazing health benefits of this vegetable. Cucumbers can be munched or sliced into a meal. Let's take a look at the wonderful health benefits of cucumber:

• Want To Shed Some Weight? Try cucumbers: It contains about 95% water and high in calorie, cucumber readily fills you up while trying to loose weight so you don't have to indulge too regularly with the main meal.

• Helps To Detoxify The Body: A glass of cucumber water ( cucumber water: a glass of water and slices of cucumber, allow to stay for at least 1 hour; you can keep refilling the water with the slices of cucumber still in the glass. Tastes real great.) will help detoxify the body.

• Helps To Stabilise Blood Pressure: Cucumbers are very low in sodium and contains potassium which hep to reduce blood pressure.

• Cucumber Keeps You Hydrated: We all know the body needs sufficient amount of water daily for the systems to function properly, but if you can not readily get a glass of water, cucumber is there to do the job.

• Helps Remove Puffy Eyes And Under Eye Bags: Did you wake up to find that puffy look on your eyes,  slices of cucumber placed on the eyes and allow to stay for a short while will help take it out.

• Cucumber Helps Keep The Mouth Fresh: Eating cucumbers also helps to heal and refresh bad gums and keeps the mouth fresh.

• Excellent For Diabetics: Cucumber helps the pancreas produce insulin which is needed to control blood sugar.

• It Helps Prevents Hangover: Had too much wine? Eat at least a half of cucumber before going to bed to avoid that headache or hangover in the morning. It contains vitamin B, sugar and some electrolyte that help replenish missing nutrients that can cause headaches.

• Helps Fight Arthritis: Cucumber contains a whole lot of vitamins and minerals that helps  fight Arthritis.

• Crayon On Walls: Did your kids leave crayon marks on the wall and you are wondering how to get it off? Try using unpeeled cucumber to rub it off.

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