How To Lose Weight By Eating Cucumbers - Discover Three Strange Facts

            Did you know eating cucumbers helps you lose weight in part because they act as a diuretic? While cucumbers are very refreshing to eat - cool and juicy - they actually do not replenish fluids, but instead increase your metabolism removing fat cells and extra water with your urine. Kind of a clean flush, if you will.

Even though cucumbers may well fill you up, they are low in calories and high in fiber. Cucumbers taste great raw, pickled, or cooked. However you need to watch out for the fatty dips often served alongside raw cucumber slices. You can choose a little salt, pepper, and/or vinegar instead to lessen your caloric intake.

A fresh, crispy cucumber makes for a perfect snack between meals or as part of a fresh garden salad to accompany your main meal. Either way, you'd be hard pressed to find a healthier and more importantly, tastier alternative.

I bet you did not know that cucumbers are over 3000 years old. (Hopefully, not the ones at the grocery store or farmers' market where you shop!) Cucumber cultivation originated over 3000 years ago in Asia. By the ninth century, the Italians, the Greeks, and the French were eating cucumbers. Not to be outdone, the English got a hold of cucumbers by the 10th century and they brought the cucumber to America.

Another interesting fact for the non-gardener is that there are actually five different types of cucumbers: Lemon, American, Burpless (a.k.a., Persian), Pickling, and Japanese. Each has a particular size, color, texture, and taste, from the Lemon Cucumber which is yellow, round and crunchy to the light green Burpless which features fewer seeds (hence the name!). So live on the wild side and try a new kind of cucumber out for a change!

An additional benefit of cucumbers is that they are chock full of antioxidants, so they encourage good immune and heart health. Snacking on cucumbers regularly will help you lose weight as it will lessen the urge for more fattening snacks by filling you up while the diuretic effect will help you lose that unwanted water weight.

Issues of Health and Fitness in general and Healthy Weight Loss in particular are some of the subjects that Vladislav Shel has a personal interest in and is always looking for new and interesting information to write about.

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