The Power of Cucumber: Melts Body Fat & Protects Your Kidneys

If you are fighting off with surplus weight, diabetes, and poor digestion, you definitely need more cucumbers in your diet. This amazing green veggie is more than water-rich- it is low on calories and abundant in pivotal nutrients for optimal health. Therefore, if you have not been consuming it very much, it is time to change things. Let us learn why!

Cucumber is one of our favorite salad ingredients, but we often forget about its astonishing healing power. Cucumber is in fact one of the most consumed vegetables in the world. There are different types of cucumbers, i.e. in different shapes, colors, and lengths. The most popular one is the regular cucumber we all know- the one with a dark green peel. 

It is rich in minerals, vitamins, and soluble fiber and it will enter into the body directly, without any decomposition. It will better several bodily functions, boost your energy flow, and strengthen your immunity. You can add it to salads, but soups and homemade juices and smoothies too. And, do not forget- its seeds and peel are also nutritious so consume them too!

Cucumber Helps You Lose Weight?

In order for the organic processes in the body to go smoothly and to keep a healthy body temperature, we need to properly hydrate our bodies. In addition to water, you can also opt for cucumbers because they contain more than 95 percent of water. 

There is no need to worry about cucumbers and weight gain- there is around 16 grams of calories per 100 grams of cucumbers. So, you can actually eat them in larger amounts without fearing weight gain. In fact, they can help you get rid of surplus fat. Raw cucumber and cucumber juice encourage the melting of fat deposits, particularly in the hip and belly area. 

They will enter the body and slow down the digestive processes. Hence, you will feel sated longer and overeat less. Thanks to the fibers present in this veggie, you will lower the chance for constipation and regulate bowel movements.

They Protect your Kidneys & Brain?

Research points out that the polyphenols and lignans in cucumbers have strong antioxidant capacity and can reduce the negative impact of free radicals in the body. Free radicals have been linked with lung and heart illnesses, autoimmune diseases, as well as cancer. 
 
Cucumbers will also decrease the uric acid levels in the body and boost the kidney, bone, and cartilage health. Therefore, if you suffer from arthritis or osteoporosis, make sure you increase your intake of cucumbers. 

Other Health Advantages of Cucumbers

• Balance the blood sugar levels
• Improves the health of the hair and nails
• Averts bad breath
• Reduces anxiousness and stress

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This Needle-Covered Patch Dissolves Excess Body Fat Wherever You Stick It

A skin patch that effectively melts excess body fat wherever you decide to apply it sounds too good to be true, but this thing actually exists, thanks to new research.

The medicated patch uses an array of skin-piercing micro-needles to deliver nano-particles of drugs to the body, and while it hasn't yet been tested on humans, trials with mice show it reduces fat by as much as 20 percent in treated areas.

Developed by researchers, the skin patch doesn't just hold promise (and potential riches) for the cosmetics industry – it could one day help us to fight conditions like obesity and diabetes.

The way it works is to do with how our bodies store fat, which largely comes down to two kinds of fat cells: white fat and brown fat.

Brown fat is often thought of as 'good fat' because it readily breaks down and produces heat – which is why newborns have a lot of it, given they need help regulating their body temperature.

 Unfortunately for grown-ups, we don't have as much brown fat, and are instead saddled with ungainly deposits of white fat around our bodies, which is used for long-term energy storage, but not so easily burned.

In recent years, there's been a huge amount of scientific effort focused around bridging the gap between these two kinds of fat – or, more accurately, learning how to convert energy-storing white fat into energy-burning brown fat.

 A number of studies have shown success in triggering the transformation – sometimes called browning – but from a health care perspective, there's a problem.

"There are several clinically available drugs that promote browning, but all must be given as pills or injections," says one of the team.

"This exposes the whole body to the drugs, which can lead to side effects such as stomach upset, weight gain, and bone fractures. Our skin patch appears to alleviate these complications by delivering most drugs directly to fat tissue."

 This is possible due to the patch's grid of microscopic needles, which deliver browning chemicals under the skin wherever white fat is being stored.

 In their study, the researchers used two different browning drugs, rosiglitazone (aka Avandia) and a chemical called CL316243, which has previously been shown to brown white fat in mice.
 
First up, the drugs are encased in nanoparticles, each measuring about 250 nanometres (nm) in diameter – for reference, a human hair is approximately 100,000 nm wide, so we're talking really, really small.

 These nano-particles are then deployed in the patch, and when the micro-needles painlessly pierce the skin, the nano-particles are delivered into the tissue directly under the patch, where they dissolve.

 "The nano-particles were designed to effectively hold the drug and then gradually collapse, releasing it into nearby tissue in a sustained way instead of spreading the drug throughout the body quickly," explains one of the researchers.

In experiments with obese mice, patches were applied every three days for a total of four weeks. Treated mice had two patches applied on different sides of their bodies: one containing a browning drug, and the other containing empty nanoparticles.

 The results showed that the patches containing either rosiglitazone or CL316243 produced a 20 percent reduction in fat on the animals' treated side (compared to the empty nanoparticles patch).

 They also showed lower fasting blood glucose levels than control animals who were also only given patches containing no browning drugs.

In lean mice the treatment also offered benefits, increasing animals' oxygen consumption compared to untreated controls.

 Of course, there's no guarantee humans wearing the patch would see the same results, but it's another promising step forward as scientists gradually uncover the mechanisms that control brown and white fat production.

 The team are currently researching which drugs, or which combination of drugs, might work best to enable this kind of localised browning – as it's possible the right chemical might even be able to improve on the already impressive 20 percent fat reduction they've seen so far.

 "Many people will no doubt be excited to learn that we may be able to offer a noninvasive alternative to liposuction for reducing love handles," says a researcher.

 "What's much more important is that our patch may provide a safe and effective means of treating obesity and related metabolic disorders such as diabetes."

 While at present there are no firm plans to release the patch for use by people, it's quite possible that something like this might become available in the future once more a lot more research and safety tests are completed.

 Until that fateful day, there's always fish oil.

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