Healthy nutrition: to whom are juices contraindicated?

Sometimes it is hard to believe that the most useful products have contraindications. Juices are no exception, although they have the most vitamins.

For example, tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage are permanent residents of our kitchen gardens and cottages. They are available, easy to prepare and have high taste qualities. Fresh juices from these vegetables are very useful to the body, but with some diseases, it turns out, it is extremely dangerous to take them.

Perhaps we do not drink juice from cabbage and cucumber every day, but tomato juice is constantly prescribed on the dining table at any time of the year.

Tomato juice is useful to drink to people suffering from edema and those who have problems with fluid stagnation. It helps well for colds, strengthens capillaries, and with continued use it is a good prevention of atherosclerosis.

Juice is rich in vitamin C and potassium, which makes it indispensable for pregnant women. And tomato juice reduces appetite, than has earned a rank of the dietary product promoting slimming.

However, the main value of tomato juice in lycopene. This substance is especially effective in the treatment of cancer, and even during heat treatment in tomatoes is not destroyed.

By the way, lycopene is in watermelon, apricots and grapefruit with red flesh.

Tasty, useful and loved by everyone juice, it turns out, is not completely harmless and has contraindications. People suffering from cholelithiasis should limit its use. And only after consultation with a doctor is gradually introduced into the diet.

The juice from the cucumber strengthens the blood vessels of the heart, regulates the pressure. In combination with carrot juice helps with rheumatic diseases and is considered a good sedative. Stimulates and improves memory, so it is especially useful for students during the session.

But cucumber juice can not be accepted by everyone. Like tomato, it is contraindicated in people with biliary and nephrolithiasis. So do not engage in amateur activities, practicing naturopathy, and first consult a doctor to get a drink of benefit and pleasure.

Important: cucumber juice in its pure form can take no more than 100 grams per day.

By the way, cucumber juice is indispensable in cosmetology. It is rich in potassium and calcium. These vitamins are especially useful to those who have hair fall out and split, nails break and break. Juice cucumber is good to wipe the skin of the face. It is her moisturizing and nourishing. And in hot weather it is very refreshing and opens the pores, so that the skin breathes better.

The juice from cabbage is useful for colds because of its high content of vitamin C. And iodine and phytoncides will help cope with sore throat and bronchitis.

Low-calorie cabbage juice will help to lose extra pounds, because tartronic acid, which is part of it, slows down the process of converting carbohydrates into fats.

Folic acid, amino acids, trace elements and anti-ulcer vitamin U are far from being the entire list of "filling" of cabbage juice.

It is recommended for the prevention of exacerbation of peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum. Effective for tumors and treatment of tuberculosis. And it is also useful to take cabbage juice for insomnia and to lower the level of cholesterol in the blood, cleanse the spleen and with constipation.

But cabbage juice also has contraindications. People suffering from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, a stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer in the acute stage of exacerbation, it can not be taken.

Important. The juice of cabbage only benefits in a fresh state. You can add a few drops of lemon juice or a little honey. With the use of salt, useful substances are lost.

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