There are many methods to deal with the problem of uterine
fibroids. For many women with fibroids, instead of looking towards medications,
hormone therapy, various surgical procedures, etc, they are turning to natural methods of which
there are many to choose from that can be effective. In this article, we look
at how to cure fibroids naturally with fruits and vegetables.
Food for Health
There are many different types of foods to eat and avoid
when treating fibroids naturally and it is important to keep these in mind and
know what they are when taking the natural route in treating uterine fibroids.
There are various diets that may work for different people but it is always
important to seek guidance from your doctor before starting any new diet to
ensure safety.
As a general rule, a fibroid healing and hormone balancing
diet should be low in animal fat, high in fiber, nutrient rich and mainly
vegetarian.
Vegetables for Uterus
Health
While a vegetarian diet is ideal, if this is something that
you cannot handle, adding small amounts of cold water fish such as salmon,
tuna, mackerel, halibut, sardines, etc, may work for non vegetarians as these
various types of cold-water fish help to promote health and contain an
abundance of healthy fats that the body needs.
A study in Italy that sought to determine whether there is a
link between uterine fibroids and diet found that certain foods i.e.
vegetables, fruits and cold-water fish can decrease the risk of developing
fibroid tumors and can also help to heal current tumors. Of these food groups,
vegetables were deemed to be the most health promoting. It is interesting that
the most health promoting food is the least consumed in the Western diet.
Vegetables contain a multitude of vitamins, minerals and
various other natural nutrients that can play a role in being able to control
or prevent fibroids as well as help alleviate uterine fibroids symptoms. When
attempting to cure fibroids naturally with vegetables, it is important to have
variety in the vegetables consumed. In addition to various green leafy vegetables, get yellow and red
vegetables.
Dark green vegetables such as broccoli, kale, arugula,
etc, contain Indole-3 Cabonol which is a chemical that prevents the
development of estrogen responsive cells as well as diminishing the strength of
certain types of estrogen.
Estrogen though not the cause of fibroids, is thought to be
what fibroids feed upon in order to grow and produce symptoms so you do not
want to have an estrogen dominant state in the uterus and using vegetables for uterus
health will help to balance hormones in this area as well as the rest of the
body.
Vegetables that are yellow, orange and gold such as carrots,
butternut squash, etc, contain beta-carotenes which help to prevent cell
damaging and altering free radicals. The substance that makes these various
vegetables these different colors besides green is what can help to promote uterus health and hormone
balance. Beta-carotenes are also contained in dark leafy vegetables such as
kale, spinach, etc.
Vegetables are definitely important for uterus health which
is tied to the risk of fibroid development as well as general health and
wellbeing.
Fruits for Health
Another important aspect of a diet to cure fibroids
naturally is fruit. Fruits much like vegetables contain an abundance od
vitamins and minerals to help heal the body while giving it the nutrition it
needs.
One thing to keep in mind when consuming fruits for health
and healing especially for fibroids is to keep sugar rich fruits like grapes and so forth to
a minimum. Sugar can help raise estrogen levels which you definitely do not want
so it is important to limit sugar consumption in any diet including sugars from
natural sources like fruit.
When attempting to cure fibroids naturally with fruits and
vegetables, ensure that you consume more quantities of vegetables than fruit because of the sugar content found in many fruits.
The daily recommended servings of fruits and vegetables is 5 to 7 servings
which may seem like a monumental task for most people.
Juice Therapy for
Fibroids
One of the best ways to get the daily recommended servings
of fruits and vegetables is through juicing. For instance, it sounds much easier to
drink a six ounce glass of fresh carrot juice than to eat the seven or eight
carrots a day that you would need to get the vitamins and minerals your body
needs for that day.
Juicing also makes it easier for your body to absorb
vitamins and minerals from fruits and vegetables than eating the
actual fruits and vegetables. Juicing is an excellent way to rid the body of
disease causing toxins, boost the immune system ad help treat and prevent
various diseases and conditions including uterine fibroids.
While juicing is excellent, you need to be aware that the
fiber contained in many fruits and vegetables will be reduced when you juice
fruits and vegetables and since fiber is very necessary, you will need to
obtain it from other sources or to get it from fruits and vegetables by
blending them. Blending unlike juicing or even eating the actual fruits and
vegetables, allows you to use the entire parts of the fruits and vegetables
including parts that you may ordinarily discard before eating them.
This makes it important if you want to cure fibroids
naturally with fruits and vegetables to get a good juicer and/or blender.
Having both is ideal. Unless of course you can manage to eat the actual five to
six servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
Attempting to cure fibroids naturally with fruits and
vegetables is just one aspect of curing uterine fibroids naturally. For an in
depth and complete step by step guide on curing and preventing fibroid tumors
naturally, click here.
