Eat a Cucumber a Day and These 5 Health Problems Vanish

I'll have to admit, when I started this research on this video, I did not know all the uses and benefits of cucumbers. Stay to the end of this video. I guarantee a couple of these are going to surprise you. And I think you're going to fall in love with cucumbers just as much as I did doing the research to talk to you about this. 13 amazing benefits and uses of cucumbers. Number one. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins that you need every single day. Just one cucumber. B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, folic acid, vitamin C, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc. So many vitamins and minerals just in this one simple vegetable. That's actually technically a fruit that I found out in my research as well. If you feel tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda or the afternoon coffee and pick up a cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of those B vitamins that we just talked about and of electrolytes. So they can provide that quick pick-me-up with a small amount of carbohydrates. Low amount, but just a little bit with those B vitamins and with those electrolytes. It can re-energize you and your cells and it can last for several hours. Number three. Do you have high blood sugar? If you do, cucumbers have been shown in studies to lower blood sugar by helping your pancreas produce insulin. They also found that it lowers LDL cholesterol. Side note. Number four. I don't know if I'll necessarily use this one, but if your bathroom mirror is fogging up and you're tired of it, like after a shower, you take a slice of cucumber, rub it across the mirror before you shower, and the chemicals that it gives off will eliminate the fog and it kind of maybe produces a little bit of soothing spa-like fragrance as well. Give that one a try. Late in the day, just finished a business meeting, realizing your breath is not good. If you suffer from halitosis, a.k.a. bad breath, you may want to consider eating cucumber instead of reaching for a sugary mint or something with some kind of toxins in it. The phytochemicals in cucumbers can kill bacteria. They enhance the saliva in your mouth that gets rid of the bacteria that causes bad breath and cavity. So eating a slice after a cup of coffee or a meal that's going to make your breath bad will help you to have fresh breath the rest of the day. Cellulite. Looking for a fast way to get rid of it? Especially if you're going to go to the pool or you need to look good? Try taking a little slice of cucumber and rubbing it on the area where you have the cellulite, the problematic area, just for a couple of minutes. And the phytochemicals in the cucumbers cause the collagen in your skin to tighten. It prevents the breakdown of the elastin that's in the skin, so it firms up the outer layer and it reduces the visibility of the cellulite. Works great for wrinkles, too. Drink a little too much? Want to avoid a hangover or even a terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and you'll wake up refreshed and headache-free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, in a good form, carbohydrates, right? B vitamins. We need a little bit of carbohydrates. We need the B vitamins to get restored. And the electrolytes, like magnesium, to replenish the essential nutrients that the body loses when we make bad choices with alcohol or if we're dehydrated and we're not getting enough of these nutrients inside of our body. It helps keep everything in equilibrium. Magnesium is one of the most powerful electrolytes to fight off a hangover or a headache in the first place. If you are an afternoon or evening binger of snacks and you're looking to fight that off, cucumbers have been shown and used for centuries, all the way back to histories of European trappers and traders and explorers. They would use it quickly to starve off their hunger and thwart it off when they were working really hard because cucumbers are nearly 96% water. They're very low calorie. They won't spike your insulin levels. They make a really good snack because they make you feel filled up because of the amount of water in it, but they don't take that hit against your metabolism and against your weight loss goals. Number nine. This one I have to admit I haven't tried, but if you have an important business meeting, the phytochemicals inside of a cucumber can be used to polish your shoes. Yep. The chemical inside of it provides a quick and durable shine that not only looks great, but it can repel water as well. So typically go for a shoe shine, but if you're in a pinch, grab a cucumber. Out of WD-40 at your house, you can use a cucumber to fix squeaky hinges. WD-40 is super toxic anyway. The smell of it, touching it on your skin, a lot of toxicity with it. Try a cucumber instead and run it along the hinge and get a little bit of the juices in there and that problematic hinge, voila, the squeak is gone. Feeling stressed out, don't have a time for a massage or a facial or a spa treatment or whatever it is, try juicing a cucumber. That's right, juicing. I know you can do this earlier in the day and take it with you for when you are stressed out during the day, but the chemicals and the nutrients from the cucumber, especially being high in potassium and magnesium, have been shown to reduce stress and lower your blood pressure. Juicing a cucumber. Looking for a green way to clean your sink or your faucets or stainless steel, a good option to try would be a slice of cucumber, rubbing it on the surface. It removes some of the tarnish that's on there and brings back the shine just like it would for your shoes and it won't leave the streaks and you don't have all these chemicals and things on your fingers while you're cleaning. Put cucumber in your cleaning regimen. Finally, if you live with little kiddos just like I do and you get the marker on the wall or the pen on the wall or something you write with isn't where it's supposed to be, this definitely happens, you can actually take the outside of a cucumber and rub it on the area, the outside, the skin of it, and slowly use it to erase the pen or erase even markers or crayons in certain scenarios on walls that shouldn't have been decorated in the first place. Cucumbers are amazing, wouldn't you agree? Share this with someone and share the amazing benefits of cucumbers and if you're looking for a way to make getting this into your body easier, this next video is the one I put for you to learn how to juice it and I think that's one of the best ways you can get all the benefits from a health perspective of cucumbers. They produce a ton of juice and they're very reasonable to buy and a lot of you even have these growing like crazy in your gardens depending on what time of year it is that you're watching this but I would learn how to juice them and by themselves they're fantastic or you can make other vegetables with it. I put that video on how to make that juice right from the beautiful Nurse Living Good. Check it out.