scholarly journals Health Beneficial Effects of Cucumber

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shampa Chakraborty ◽  
Sadhana Rayalu

Cucumber is a healthy fruit which having lots of benefits. Cucumber regulates hydration and maintain adequate blood pressure and sugar, soothes skin, helped in digestion and reduces fat and help to weight loss. Cucumber contains a plenty of potassium, fiber, magnesium, manganese and vitamin A, C, K. Cucumber has several health beneficial activities such as antimicrobial properties, hydrating and detoxification, help in digestion and weight loss, preventing cancer and other fragile bone disease. In this book chapter we have discussed about the health beneficial activities of cucumber along with its different contents.

Hypertension ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 1180-1186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshio Ikeda ◽  
Tomoko Gomi ◽  
Nobuhito Hirawa ◽  
Jun Sakurai ◽  
Nori Yoshikawa

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 2305
Author(s):  
Wan-Ju Yeh ◽  
Jung Ko ◽  
Wei-Yi Cheng ◽  
Hsin-Yi Yang

High blood pressure is a crucial risk factor for many cardiovascular diseases, and a diet rich in whole-grain foods may modulate blood pressure. This study investigated the effects of dehulled adlay consumption on blood pressure in vivo. We initially fed spontaneous hypertensive rats diets without (SHR group) or with 12 or 24% dehulled adlay (SHR + LA and SHR + HA groups), and discovered that it could limit blood pressure increases over a 12-week experimental period. Although we found no significant changes in plasma, heart, and kidney angiotensin-converting enzyme activities, both adlay-consuming groups had lower endothelin-1 and creatinine concentrations than the SHR group; the SHR + HA group also had lower aspartate aminotransferase and uric acid levels than the SHR group did. We later recruited 23 participants with overweight and obesity, and they consumed 60 g of dehulled adlay daily for a six-week experimental period. At the end of the study, we observed a significant decrease in the group’s systolic blood pressure (SBP), and the change in SBP was even more evident in participants with high baseline SBP. In conclusion, our results suggested that daily intake of dehulled adlay had beneficial effects in blood-pressure management. Future studies may further clarify the possible underlying mechanisms for the consuming of dehulled adlay as a beneficial dietary approach for people at risk of hypertension.


2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 1231-1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nevena Kardum ◽  
Branislav Milovanović ◽  
Katarina Šavikin ◽  
Gordana Zdunić ◽  
Slavica Mutavdžin ◽  
...  

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 818-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efrain Reisin

A number of studies have established a close association between increased body mass and elevated blood pressure. The presence of obesity in hypertensive subjects is associated with some hemodynamic, metabolic, and endocrinic characteristics: an increased intravascular volume with a high intracellular body water/interstitial fluid volume ratio, increased cardiac output, stroke volume, and left ventricular work while peripheral resistance was reduced or normal. Weight loss of at least 10 kg can reduce blood pressure independently of changes in sodium intake in obese persons of both sexes with mild, moderate, or severe high blood pressure. The fall in arterial pressure in obese hypertensives after weight loss may reverse many of the previously mentioned altered findings and underscore previous epidemiological studies that have shown that weight control could be an important measure in the treatment of hypertension.


2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 717-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Luz Fernandez ◽  
Shiva Metghalchi ◽  
Sonia Vega-López ◽  
Karin Conde-Knape ◽  
Timothy G. Lohman ◽  
...  

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