What vegetables should women eat to prevent aging?

People who love beauty always want to retain their youth, how to prevent aging? Then let's start from our dining table.

1. Bitter Melon

Bitter melon is particularly popular among people because of its bitter taste.

The nutritional and health characteristics of bitter melon are: first, it contains more vitamin C, vitamin B1 and alkaloids; second, it contains more galacturonic acid and pectin. The bitter taste in bitter melon comes from quinine in the alkaloids. These nutrients have the effects of promoting appetite, diuresis, promoting blood circulation, anti-inflammatory, reducing fever and refreshing the mind. Modern scientific research has found that the "polypeptide-P" substance in bitter melon is an insulin-like substance that has the effect of lowering blood sugar. Xi'an Medical University has extracted oral insulin-like substances from bitter melon. American scientists have also found that bitter melon contains a protein lipid substance that has the ability to stimulate and enhance the ability of immune cells in animals to engulf cancer cells. It can play an anti-cancer role in the body together with quinine in the alkaloids.

Although bitter melon is bitter, it tastes bitter and cool when eaten, refreshing and not greasy. Eating it in summer makes you feel refreshed and comfortable, and has the effect of refreshing the mind and appetizing. Moreover, it will not pass the bitterness to "others". For example, when using bitter melon to cook or stew fish, the fish pieces will never be stained with bitterness. Therefore, bitter melon is also known as the "gentleman among vegetables". If bitter melon is brewed into herbal tea and drunk in summer, it can make people feel refreshed and relaxed, and all thirst is eliminated. In some areas, bitter melon is cut and slightly salted to reduce some bitterness and eaten as a vegetable; some people cut bitter melon into rings and stew it with minced meat, garlic, and fermented black beans to make a delicacy. There is a Hakka folk song that says: "People say bitter melon is bitter, but I say bitter melon is sweet. You can choose whether it is sweet or bitter. How can it be sweet without bitterness?" This means that bitter melon itself is bitter, but it brings people sweetness - health and happiness.

2. Tomato

It is said that hundreds of years ago, tomatoes were still unknown. Later, a girl in Peru suffered from anemia and the pain of a broken heart, so she wanted to eat a poisonous plant to commit suicide. Unexpectedly, after she swallowed the tomato fruit, her face turned red. After eating more, it became even more rosy. Not only did she not die, but she recovered and became more beautiful. What is the reason? It turns out that tomato fruit is very rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, carboxylic acid, carotene, vitamin B1, B2, C, etc. Among them, the content of vitamin C that can beautify is equivalent to 10 times that of watermelon. It is simply a warehouse of vitamins. It also contains minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron that promote the growth and development of adolescents, as well as tomato toxin that inhibits the growth of bacteria. With all this, it would be strange if the Peruvian girl did not grow healthy and beautiful!

In recent years, scientists have discovered that tomatoes also contain an anti-cancer and anti-aging substance - glutathione. Clinical measurements show that when the concentration of glutathione in the human body increases, the incidence of cancer decreases significantly. Therefore, eating more tomatoes can prevent uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, etc. It can also delay the aging of certain cells, lower blood pressure, and prevent night blindness and bleeding gums.

Since eating tomatoes has so many benefits, almost every family in developed countries in Europe and the United States eats tomatoes for the purpose of preventing cancer, fighting disease and beautifying.

When eating tomatoes, you should pay attention to the way you eat them. Eating them raw does not prevent cancer or disease, because tomatoes contain lycopene, which is combined with protein and surrounded by cellulose, making it difficult to come out. It must be heated to a certain degree to be released. Therefore, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, tomato egg soup, tomato stew with tofu, fried meat with tomatoes, and fried tomatoes are all nutritious delicacies.

3. Pumpkin

In the era of food shortage, pumpkins were once very popular as a meal, but in today's well-off society, why are pumpkins still so popular? There are three reasons: First, pumpkins are sweet and delicious; second, pumpkins are extremely rich in vitamin A, which can strengthen mucous membranes, prevent colds, prevent rough skin, have beauty and fitness effects, and can also prevent keratopathy and night blindness; third, modern medicine has found that pumpkins contain trace elements such as cobalt, zinc, copper and pectin, which can promote the normal secretion of insulin in the human body. Therefore, pumpkins can effectively prevent and treat diabetes, hypertension, and some liver and kidney diseases, enhance the ability to resist anemia and cancer, remove bacterial toxicity in the body, reduce the risk of colon cancer, and prevent and treat atherosclerosis.

4. Carrots

Also known as yellow carrot, it is a nutritious vegetable suitable for all ages, known as "little ginseng". The most famous ingredient in carrots is carotene, a yellow pigment first discovered in carrots more than a hundred years ago. It is now known that carrots contain 1.35-17.25 mg of carotene per 100 grams, which is much more than other vegetables, 360 times that of potatoes and 36 times that of celery. After carotene enters the human body and is absorbed, it can be converted into vitamin A, so carotene is also called provitamin A. What is valuable is that although carrots are boiled, steamed, and sun-dried, the carotene in them is rarely lost.

Eating carrots regularly has many benefits for the body: first, it can enhance immunity, fight cancer and prevent cancer. If the human body lacks vitamin A, it will not only have a great impact on the eyes and skin, but also have poor resistance and are prone to respiratory and urinary system diseases. If you eat carrots regularly, you can meet the body's need for vitamin A. It can not only nourish the eyes and mucous membranes, but also prevent night blindness and colds. It can also enhance the body's disease resistance. In addition, carrots contain a large amount of lignin, which can also improve the body's disease resistance and reduce and prevent the occurrence of cancer. According to the British and American cancer research institutions, after more than 20 years of observation, people who often eat carrots and other foods rich in vitamin A have a 40% lower chance of getting lung cancer than those who do not often eat such foods. Second, it is beauty and fitness. Another function of vitamin A is to maintain the normal function of the human epithelial tissue, so that it can secrete glycoproteins to keep the skin moist and tender. Therefore, eating carrots regularly can maintain a radiant and young image. In addition, carrots contain mustard oil and amylase, which can promote fat metabolism, prevent excessive fat from accumulating under the skin and gaining weight, and keep the body fit and healthy. Therefore, Americans believe that carrots are beauty vegetables that can nourish hair, skin, and mucous membranes. Now Europeans often eat carrot cakes, and even Russians eat carrot dumplings. In my country, there are also people who drink carrot drinks and carrot-apple beauty juices, but generally carrots are fried, roasted, stewed, or boiled for consumption.