cucums

If you’d like to make your diet healthier by adding more vegetables to your meals, cucumbers are a great choice. Cucumbers are widely used in traditional diets as well as spas across the world for a reason: They are good for health.

It would be recalled that in the last two weeks, some Nigerian ladies and women have shied away from purchasing Cucumbers since the usage by Chidinma Okeke and a ‘lover’ for s*xual acts which before then has been rampant on the down-low.

In this post, cucumbers are said to have the following benefits: potential anti diabetic, antioxidant activity, cleansing action of toxins and waste, soothing effect against skin irritation, and prevention of constipation. And here are 10 health benefits of cucumbers in more details.

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1. Help you stay hydrated

Cucumbers are 95.2 percent water, which means that a 5-ounce serving contains 4.8 ounces or 150 ml water. That’s already about 26 percent of your daily water intake through food.

2. Support heart health

Cucumbers contain potassium (152mg per cup), which can help lower blood pressure. A review of the best studies conducted on potassium intake showed that a higher intake “is associated with lower rates of stroke and might also reduce the risk of total cardiovascular disease.”

As less than 2 percent of U.S. adults consume the recommended 4,700 mg potassium per day, eating cucumbers is an easy way to start increasing your potassium consumption.

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60 COMMENTS

  1. This whole cucumber ish has gotten way too much than it should..
    The Miss Anambra saga would have been dead by now if these bloggers stopd posting about it…

    We live in a generation where people scream out ur failure and whisper your accomplishments..which is very bad..she made a mistake,that doesnt mean everyone here is better than her..

    If bloggers could make the word of God and the Quaran trend like this,most of us will make heaven..

  9. I wonder why this cucumber issue is still trending. This isn’t what we need at the moment. Is it because hers leaked? We have so many of them even in this platform that use cucumber in the other room. Let sleeping dog lies please. The last time I checked, this same girl has been nominated for another award. Yes! That’s the kind of society we find ourselves.
    “everybody loves to watch the mad man dance in the market square but no one wants to give birth to him ”

    #peace

  12. Bobby Desmond you have a hrt of gold long live bro, yes no body talks about her in all she ve achieved in life so far bt her little mistake has made everyone mock her like she prefers suicide than to live, I pray for her repentance and forviness. I feel for her parents and siblings, i can imagine the trauma they are passing through

  22. Hmm cucumber cucumber cucumber!!! Ehhh God please help us in this country,cant this same news about cucumber just go down…its not befitting so whats d essence of posting it all the time,infact cucumber got no value anymore#sigh# so tired of all this

  34. I hate all these useless posts from bloggers. Like Bobby said, If the bloggers could make the word of God this trendy, the very incidence probably wouldn’t have occurred cos every1 would’ve repented by now. This is getting too much.
    Imagine, the girl was A WHOLE MISS in her state and I didn’t even know her or hear about it but bcos of a mistake she made, the whole country/continent/world sings it like a song. No Facebook post now without mentioning cucumber. Too bad.
    Imagine CHIDINMA was your sister, daughter, cousin or even a church member. IMAGINE you were CHIDINMA, how’d you feel.
    “Ponder on these things”

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