The benefits of women eating pumpkins

1, laxative beauty

Eating pumpkin often can make the stool smooth and the skin rich, especially for women, which has a cosmetic effect.

2. Protect gastric mucosa

Promote bile secretion, avoid the stimulation of coarse food, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion.

3. Lowering blood sugar and blood pressure

Regulating the balance of insulin and maintaining normal blood pressure and blood sugar is also an ideal diet food for obese people.

4. Prevention of prostate

Lipids in pumpkin seeds have good therapeutic and preventive effects on urinary system diseases and prostatic hyperplasia.

5. Prevent stroke

Pumpkin can also prevent stroke, because pumpkin contains a lot of glycerol acids such as linseed oleic acid, palmitic acid and stearic acid, which are all good oils.

6, cancer prevention and treatment

Prevention of esophageal cancer and gastric cancer also has a certain effect on preventing colon cancer, and at the same time, it can help the recovery of liver and kidney function and enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells.

7, radiant

Pumpkin seed is rich in zinc, which is a very important mineral. It has the functions of enhancing immunity, maintaining normal function in the body, having antioxidant function and strengthening anti-aging effect. The vegetable iron contained in it helps to make red blood cells, and blood gas runs well, naturally developing a rosy and good complexion. Eating pumpkin seeds in moderation can keep you healthy internally and radiant externally.

The disadvantages of eating too much pumpkin

Eating pumpkin a day should not exceed 50-100g. Although the nutritional value of pumpkin is high, it should not be eaten too much blindly. It is necessary to control the consumption, preferably not more than 50- 100 grams at a time and not more than one meal of staple food a day.

1, yellow skin

If you eat pumpkin as a staple food all day, if you eat it too much, it will lead to the deposition of β -carotene in pumpkin in the cuticle of human skin, and the skin will turn yellow, that is, the skin of forehead, nose, eyes, palms, soles and other parts of human body will be lemon yellow.

2, leading to flatulence

Pumpkin is rich in starch, sugar, cellulose and other ingredients, and it is a food that is easy to cause flatulence. If you eat too much, it is more prone to flatulence or aggravate flatulence.

3. Allergic symptoms

Pumpkin may also become an allergen, which may not be reflected when eaten in a small amount, but after eating too much, allergic symptoms such as skin redness, diarrhea and indigestion may occur.

4. Contribute to damp heat

Pumpkins are warm, and if they are eaten too much for a long time, they will contribute to damp-heat, especially those with excessive stomach heat, full qi stagnation and damp-heat qi stagnation.