The benefits and harms of cherries for women's health
Many associate cherries with hot summers, and this is not accidental. Her taste is one of the first that can be felt in the next warm season. This fruit is very much appreciated by women.It seems especially bright after the cold season, with its limited vitamins. But like any berry, this one has its pluses and minuses for the health of women.
Calorie and composition
Sweet cherry as such is a small tree. The same are called the fruits that it brings. These berries pleased themselves even the inhabitants of ancient Greece, and after them the Romans.
During the Middle Ages, the gardens in which such trees were grown could be seen throughout Europe. This culture grew in Russia too. The virtue of sweet cherry is that growing in a temperate climate, it provides early fruit. Berries are not only burgundy or red. In some varieties they are pink and even white.
Many confuse cherries with cherries, considering it to be a derivative of the latter. Although the cultivated cherry tree, in contrast to what was created by nature without human intervention, is precisely the result of breeding research that led to the crossing of sweet cherry with wild cherry.
The composition of the cherry is very diverse. It contains:
- carbohydrates;
- pectin;
- fiber;
- acids;
- vegetable protein;
- beta carotene;
- vitamins;
- various trace elements.
There are very few calories in sweet cherry - only 50 kcal per 100 products - you will not grow fat.
What is useful for the female body?
Sweet cherry for the female body and the external beauty of the body is just a godsend.
The positive impact of this berry is very diverse:
- It has a tonic and tonic effect on the body, improves overall health.
- Compensates the damage of fatty and difficult to digest food. (Just right for the end of dinner with hearty meat dishes).
- Due to the presence of iodine, it prevents the development of diseases of the thyroid gland and helps when this disease has already overtaken a woman.
- This berry serves to get rid of iron deficiency, which is important for many of the fair sex.
- Fruits of dark shades lead to normal pressure. The diuretic effect of the product is important for the functioning of the kidneys and liver.
- Sweet cherry helps to remove the discomfort in diseases of the joints.
- Strengthens the bones, which is important for women at the age when osteoporosis usually overtakes.
- Beta-carotene in the product improves vision.
- Thanks to the sweet cherry, harmful substances are removed from the body
- Berry is used to prevent cancer. And if the tumor is already formed, then such a sweet "medicine" will help to fight this terrible disease. You need to use the fruits of dark flowers, which are powerful antioxidants.
- Thanks to it, the condition of the skin is improved, there is a disposal of serious skin diseases like psoriasis or eczema, many cosmetic defects pass.
- With this product, the level of cholesterol in the blood is normalized, the walls of the vessels become more elastic and strong.
- Vitamin E, which is in the composition of the berries, prevents blood clots and prevents the formation of blood clots.
- The use of sweet cherry leads to normal bowel function. Berry has a moderate laxative effect on him.
- Cherry helps to get rid of excess body weight.
- The composition of the berries are substances that allow to establish the correct rhythm of menstruation. With it, you can stabilize the state of the body during menopause.
- Berries calm the nervous system, relieve stress and normalize sleep.
- With this product, the condition of hair and nails improves, teeth become stronger.
Great benefits of sweet cherry for pregnant women. The properties of the product during this period are important in order to avoid constipation, which in this situation can cause really serious problems.
Rescue this berry and toxicosis. Its use removes the painful symptoms associated with carrying a child. Taking it in food, you can get rid of nausea and hunger, remove dizziness and headache, mood swings and depressive postpartum symptoms.
In addition, this product prevents the development of anemia, improves heart function. This is especially important in the last stages of pregnancy, when many even quite healthy women begin to increase pressure. Sweet cherry compensates for such disturbing manifestations in the body during this crucial period. In addition, the berry prevents the development of varicose disease, which during the carrying of the fetus can launch an attack on the female body.
The restorative effect of the berry has a positive effect on the health of the unborn child, which is a priority for any future mother.
Drinking cherries can not cause unhealthy weight gain during pregnancy. Although the reason to monitor body weight is important for a woman, regardless of whether she carries a child or is free from this condition.
Ladies who want to lose weight, use this berry while dieting. Juicy sweet cherry is able to “sweeten” the forced rejection of too high-calorie foods. In addition, such a sweet delicacy does not need to be specially prepared, spending time and effort on it - also a small joy, though small.
Due to the positive effect on the skin, cherry is often used for external use. From it you can make masks for hair and face. Berry supplies the skin with the necessary moisture, vitamins, minerals, helps to slow down the aging process.
Contraindications
No matter how many useful properties a sweet cherry has, it can be harmful to a woman’s health.
The reason for rejecting this product or limiting its use can be many reasons:
- some simply do not tolerate such food - allergies;
- an obstacle to the inclusion in the diet of such a product are adhesions in the intestine;
- some women suffer from systematic painful attacks in the intestines, because of which they are forced to abandon the fragrant delicacy;
- you cannot eat a sweet cherry with diabetes mellitus of the first type and chronically low blood pressure - the sweet cherry will “drop” it altogether;
- this berry will also harm with cystitis in the acute stage;
- it is better to refuse this product at acute stages of such diseases as pancreatitis, gastritis, colitis and other intestinal ailments.
If after a serious exacerbation a period of improvement has come, it is better to consult a doctor about whether it is not harmful to eat this berry.
During pregnancy and lactation, compliance with measures for the use of such a product is mandatory. And after the birth of the child, they should start eating from the smallest portions. The reaction of the body of a baby who is breastfed is unpredictable. If these berries are filled up, the baby may suffer from gas and diarrhea.
It is necessary to consume only ripe fruits that have not yet begun to deteriorate. Even those who are not nursing moms are not recommended to swallow cherries with whole berries. This can cause bloating in the intestines.
Also, do not eat fresh berries on an empty stomach or immediately after eating. You need to wait at least thirty minutes before lashing out at such a treat. Only in this way will this food benefit the body and not harm it. It should be borne in mind that dried cherry, unlike fresh, is not weak, but, on the contrary, causes constipation.
You will learn more about the benefits and dangers of sweet cherries by watching the following video.
Tips on drinking
It is best to eat fresh cherries, if there are no obstacles to this from health. So nutritionists say. Systematic consumption of it in the best way will affect the condition of the skin. Hair will get shine and elasticity, will cease to break nails. Any woman will notice such a wonderful change in her appearance.
It should be borne in mind that when cherries are grown on an industrial scale, pesticides are often used to process them. To get rid of them, berries brought from the market, you need to immerse in water at room temperature for about an hour. Only then can they be eaten.
Those who pursue high blood pressure are advised to consume up to 300 grams of this berry per day. Diabetics - no more than 100.
Juice squeezed from a berry just before use will be tasty and just as useful.
Sweet cherries make nutritious tasty smoothies and fruit drinks. For compote you can take dried white sweet cherry.
This product is also suitable for freezing. Appearing on the table in the middle of winter, it almost does not lose its useful qualities, but more often it is used to create pastries. It is possible for such purposes to start up and jam from the cherry. It is usually prepared from red and yellow berries. Bones are taken out of them, covered with sugar at the rate of 0.5 kg of sugar per kilogram of sweet cherries, and then boiled.
This berry is used to create cakes and pies, casseroles and other sweet dishes are made from it. It is suitable even to turn it into candied fruits.
For weight loss, you can adopt a sweet cherry diet. It involves the use of products from milk with low fat content, as well as fish, chicken and veal. The diet includes legumes and cereals (unrefined). You can eat a lot of sweet cherries with its trifling calories. Weight goes pretty quickly - up to 4 kg per week.
Some ladies who want to have the perfect silhouette, arrange fasting days, refusing to eat any food except cherries. Supplement to the diet can only be kefir, in which there is practically no fat, or green tea. Thanks to this, you can lose up to two extra pounds per day. Although before undertaking such experiments on your own body, it is better to ask the advice of a doctor.
There are very interesting ways to use cherries for medical and cosmetic purposes. For example, if you crush a few cherries, put them on your forehead and lie down, a headache passes.
Sweet Cherry Compote (without sugar) is a cough remedy. It helps to remove sputum from the bronchi and strengthens the immune system. For such a broth, usually take a pound of berries, heat the water with the berries to a boil, and then turn off the heat and cool until it becomes warm. After that, you can take it.
If constipation often occurs or the intestine does not work well, consuming 200 grams of cherry berries as an afternoon snack will fix the problem.
With such problems, the sweet cherry should not be washed down with water while it is being consumed.
With the opposite problem, you can use chopped dry sweet cherry (30 grams of berries). It is poured with 1.5 glasses of water (cold), insist eight hours, and then take a little three times a day. Diarrhea ceases to torment.
To get rid of the pain of arthritis or rheumatism, you can drink pure cherry juice three times a day, a tablespoon. Although for these purposes, the stems are also boiled. This broth is drunk three times a day for two glasses of broth. The broth itself is prepared as follows: a small handful of stalks are taken per liter of boiling water and slowly cooked for about six minutes.
Cherry masks have a lifting effect, remove acne and acne from the face.
You can refresh the skin with the juice of cherry, mixed with peach oil and honey. All of this is combined into a single composition, kept in the refrigerator for two days and applied to cleansed skin.
And for the skin prone to dryness, more suitable juice of yellow berries, and for the combined and normal - pink and white.
For sluggish skin, you can use crumpled berries in equal proportions, mixed with oily country sour cream. This mixture is applied for half an hour, and then removed with a cotton pad and washed.
For skin with an unpleasant greasy shine, a mask made from mint cherries, which is mixed with lemon juice and honey, is suitable. This mixture is applied to the face, waiting for half an hour and removed.
The mask helps in making the skin lighter, in which cherries and strawberries are present in equal parts. Berries are made into a puree mass, applied to the face for ten minutes, and then washed off.
Crumpled berries superimposed on the face constrict pores. The procedure takes no more than 15 minutes.After it is completed, a moisturizer is applied to the skin.
With the help of a mask with cherry you can get rid of dandruff. For this juice berries are mixed with starch and lemon juice, rubbed into the scalp and washed off in half an hour. The effect is observed after 4-5 procedures.