Pumpkin is the most unpretentious plant in the garden. For a long period of its cultivation, people have learned to use with profit all the components of the fruit: flesh, seeds and juice.
Useful properties of pumpkin are identified a very long time and were applied from various ailments:
- this fruit was treated with tuberculosis. It is known that the pumpkin contains substances that adversely affect the mycobacteria in the patient. It is good to use this vegetable for the prevention of tuberculosis among family members with whom the sick person lives;
- a large content of useful potassium relieves shortness of breath and helps protect the heart muscle from wear and tear;
- in the raw pulp there is an active substance that fights with helminths. For the onset of a therapeutic effect, it is recommended to eat an uncooked pumpkin on an empty stomach;
- a rich content of carotene in the pumpkin makes it possible to slow the aging of cells, this vitamin E contributes to this effect. The skin becomes smooth and taut;
- active substances contained in the flesh of pumpkin and its seeds, facilitate the work of the liver and have a cholagogic effect. They purify the bile ducts, increase the enzymatic activity of bile;
- Pumpkin seeds are rich in unique oils that treat skin diseases, for example, seborrhea and acne;
- pumpkin juice is rich in vitamins, so it helps the body improve its immune properties and resist inflammatory diseases;
- containing pectins help to better digest foods, easily split food compounds into nutrients. Crushed products, in turn, deliver less irritation to the intestines and serve as a preventative of colitis;
- unique substances in the pulp pulp deduce not useful cholesterol and fight with atherosclerotic plaques in the vessels;
- pumpkin will excellently save from vomiting in seasickness or during toxemia.
Is a pumpkin useful for losing weight?
Useful properties of pumpkin for weight loss are based on the content of rare naturally occurring vitamin T. It naturally activates metabolic processes and helps the body to fully consume energy, rather than accumulate reserves in sediments. With accelerated metabolism, all harmful fats are split, and the person quickly loses weight.
Pumpkin dishes are appropriate in diets, thanks to a diuretic effect. The body removes excess fluid along with toxins and slags, and a person loses extra pounds.
Contained cellulose in pumpkin seeds is indispensable for weight loss, because the fiber itself does not dissolve and is not absorbed into the body, but creates a feeling of filling the intestines. Also, cellulose activates the peristalsis of the digestive tract, relieves the intestines from food stagnation. Fiber fiber is a good adsorbent, which helps the body get rid of harmful decomposition products.
Adds pumpkin to useful properties in losing weight and its low calorie content, only 30 Kcal per 100 gr of raw product. This caloric content is explained by the fact that the pumpkin contains 90% water.
A wide variety of pumpkin dishes will help to include this vegetable in the daily diet. It can be soared, boiled, baked, added to cereal or simply to receive pumpkin juice. Due to diversity
Pumpkin - contraindications to consumption
It should be noted that with a huge range of useful properties, the pumpkin has a number of contraindications to use:
- Diabetes. Pumpkin is a direct threat to such patients, as it is rich in natural sugars.
- Gastritis with a decreased acidic environment, especially complicated by peptic ulcer. Such people do not use a pumpkin.