Cucumber is known to be one of the best foods for your overall health and often referred to as a super food. If you are the busy type and you don’t have time to drink enough water, eat the cool cucumber, which is 90 percent water. It will cheerfully compensate your water lost.
Eating cucumber will get your body relief from heartburn. Applying cucumber on your skin can relief your skin from sunburn. All that water in cucumber acts as a virtual broom, sweeping waste products out of your body. With regular eating, cucumber is known to dissolve kidney stones.
Cucumbers have most of the vitamins the body needs in a single day. Vitamin A, B and C, which boost your immune system keeps you radiant and give you energy. You can leave the skin on because it contains a good amount of vitamin C, about 12 percent of the daily recommended allowance.
Cucumber juice heals and refreshes diseased gums. Get a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for a half minute, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria responsible for causing unpleasant breath in your mouth.
The wonder mineral Silica in cucumber makes your hair and nails shinier and stronger. The sulfur and silica in cucumbers help to stimulate your hair growth . As cucumber is an excellent source of silica it promotes joint health by strengthening the connective tissues. When mixed with carrot juice, cucumber can relieve gout and arthritis pain by lowering levels of the uric acid. It lowers uric acid levels in your body thereby keeping the kidneys healthy. To avoid a morning headache or hangover you can eat a few cucumber slices before going to sleep. Cucumbers contain enough B vitamins, sugar and electrolytes to replenish many essential nutrients and reducing the severity of both hangover and headache. So what are you waiting for? Pick a handful of firm, dark green cucumbers, drop them into your shopping cart and start enjoying its massive health benefits for healthy living.
-Everydayng
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