Health Benefits Of Pumpkins

Health Benefits Of Pumpkins

Autumn is a favorite season for many, and with good reason. Leaves changing color and falling from their branches, the slow waning of summer’s sweltering heat into cozy sweater weather and, more importantly to many, pumpkin flavored drinks and confections become available all over once again. It’s a flavor beloved by many, but there’s more to pumpkins than just scrumptious pie, ice cream, and coffee. Pumpkin, unbeknownst to many, is a superfood, offering an incredibly varied array of health benefits. Listed here, before they go out of season, are some of the best health benefits of pumpkins.

Eating pumpkin can help fortify eyesight.*

• Just one cup of pumpkin contains more than twice the necessary daily intake of vitamin A, which helps sharpen eyesight and assists the ability to see in dim light.* Thankfully, unlike with many foods, cooking the pumpkin does not diminish this benefit, so you can enjoy improved optical health and your pie, too.

Eating pumpkins can help you achieve your weight loss goals.*

• Incredibly rich in fiber, pumpkin provides three grams of it in every one cup serving, leaving you feeling stuffed full and helping prevent overeating.

Pumpkin seeds fortify heart health.*

• One of the least known health benefits of pumpkins is that they’re very high in phytosterols, a type of plant-based chemical that has been shown to help with the reduction of bad cholesterol. It also contains potassium, which promotes a regular, healthy heart rhythm.

Pumpkin protects your skin.*

• Exceptionally high in zinc, which both protects cell membranes and maintains collagen, eating pumpkin seeds helps contribute to firm, glowing, moisture-retaining skin, which becomes increasingly important as nippy weather sets in and the unlucky among us begin drying out.

Pumpkin is an antioxidant.*

• Antioxidants are anything that can prevent the oxidation of other things in the body. While oxidation is necessary, too much of it, as frequently occurs in our bodies, can cause an abundance of tissue-damaging free radicals, which have been strongly linked to tissue aging. The antioxidants in pumpkins help combat these effects, leaving you fresh and healthier.