Pumpkin is a kind of common food to most people. Many people like to eat pumpkins in summer. In fact, pumpkin is very suitable for women to eat to beautify the skin, as the nutrients contained in it are relatively comprehensive and balanced. These nutrients mainly include vitamin C, glucose, calcium, iron and carotene, which is beneficial to the treatment of asthma. In addition, pumpkins can also help people eliminate the inflammation, relieve the pain and remove the toxins. According to the traditional Chinese medicine, the diseases like malaria, diarrhea, bronchial asthma and diabetes can also be prevented and treated for people by eating pumpkins.

Recently, a kind of new composition called “cobalt” has been found in pumpkins. This kind of nutrient can enrich the blood for the human body. Pumpkins contain abundant vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, mineral substances, 8 kinds of amino acids and histidine. Trace elements like phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc and silicon are also contained in pumpkins. Mineral substances can help the aged and the patients with high blood pressure prevent osteoporosis and high blood pressure. According to the modern medicine, eating pumpkins frequently can effectively prevent and treat high blood pressure, diabetes and pathological changes of the liver and kidney and increase the immunity for the human body. In addition, the lipid contained in the seeds of pumpkins can effectively prevent and deal with the diseases relating to the urinary system and prostatic hypertrophy.

Women should eat more pumpkins in summer, as pumpkins can relax the bowels and beautify the skin for women. What’s more, eating pumpkins can help people prevent the apoplexia, as the abundant glyceric acids contained in pumpkins like linoleic acid, palmitic acid and stearic acid are all high-quality fat. It can be seen that the effects of eating pumpkins are rather diverse.

Nowadays, more and more people attach great importance to health care, and more and more people agree that the dietary therapy is more effective to help people improve the physical situations. According to the research all over the world, the nutritional value of pumpkins is very high and long-term intake of pumpkins can prevent and treat some diseases for the human body. What’s more, the unique nutritional compositions contained in pumpkins can increase the human immunity and prevent the vascular atherosclerosis. Pumpkin has been regarded as a kind of vegetable with effective functions of health care, so people, especially women, should often eat pumpkins.