Benefits of cooked carrots
All Community "club of carrots," representatives of the world of which a great many, is divided into two camps. Some claim that raw carrots useful than boiled. Others advocate a different view: the boiled root useful than raw carrots. Rights and those and others. After the heat treatment of carrot loses some of its vitamins, but gets a number of useful properties.
Thus, the antioxidant properties of cooked carrots higher than that of the crude. The value of antioxidants for the body can not be overestimated. Antioxidants - a watchman on guard our health, fighters with atypical cells, which, by sharing, to expand cancer. Antioxidants prevent premature aging, protect against viruses and bacteria.
The general opinion of gastroenterologists: boiled carrots better and better absorbed by the body than raw, without downloading the digestive tract without irritating the mucous membranes. Raw carrots can be contraindicated in some diseases of the digestive tract, boiled solved even gastric ulcer during the exacerbation.
Boiled carrots is considered a "cleaner" of the blood vessels. Effectively reduces the size and number of cholesterol, gently cleanse the blood vessels, reducing bad cholesterol in the blood. Therefore, boiled carrots is recommended for diseases of the cardiovascular system, heart failure and hypertension.
Boiled carrots must be present in the diet of older people as it helps prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease or simply - senile dementia. The recommendation to enter into the diet of boiled carrots in old age categorical, if there is a genetic predisposition to senile dementia.
Carrots after cooking retains most of its vitamins, so it can be recommended as a means of multivitamin for beriberi. Vitamins and minerals are destroyed carrots little for a long time after harvest. Therefore, boiled carrots in the diet in the spring, when many vegetables and fruits last year's harvest lose most of its beneficial properties, can replace a whole list of vegetables, supplying the body vitamins and minerals.
Cooked carrots contains iron and iodine, so it can become a tool in the treatment of anemia. However, to exaggerate the importance of carrots as a supplier of iron is not necessary, it is only good in the complex therapy. Her "glandular" properties can be lifted if eaten in combination with boiled beets, composed salad, for example.
Boiled carrots Beauty
Boiled carrots used in home cosmetics less than crude, however, and it has its fans. Typically, the mask with boiled carrots are used to give the skin a light shade of tan. 
Cooked carrots, as raw, contains a large amount of yellow pigment. The small amount that the pigment does not have any effect on the body. If the carrots have continuously in large quantities, it can stain skin and whites of the eyeballs, to give a yellowish tint nails. For this reason, to cooked carrots teach their exhibition ginger cat owners. With boiled carrot color saturation and becomes resistant.
About the same effect is external application of cooked carrots. It is added to many of the mask. In addition to the light pigmentation of the skin, such mask nourishes, tones and rejuvenates the skin, because in addition to the pigment, carrots contains other useful components.
The mask with boiled carrots
Half boiled carrots knead, add fat cottage cheese, half a teaspoon of olive oil. All carefully stir. Apply mask on the face with a thick layer, after 20 minutes, remove the cloth, then rinse with warm water.
Boiled carrot diet
Calorie raw carrots can be up to 55 calories. With cooking carrots loses its nutritional value - the roots are saturated with water, which boiled, and the water does not cost anything, "calorie." However, losing calorie, boiled carrots increases the carbohydrate content. The raw carrots 35% of carbohydrates in cooked - up to 55%. And having eaten as a side dish for dinner 200 grams of boiled carrots, you can exceed the daily rate of carbohydrates in the body receipt.
Boiled carrots categorically contraindicated in protein diet, when the content of carbohydrates in the diet is minimized.
In other cases, cooked carrots can be added to the diet if you want to lose weight. But given the high glycemic index of cooked carrots, it should not be there in the evening and at night, moving the dish with cooked carrots in the first half of the day. Then eaten cooked carrots will be a source of slow carbohydrates, source of energy for a long time.
In the evening, boiled carrots may be present on the table as a side dish to the main toppings in small quantities. It is well nourishes, gives dishes a bright color and uplifting.
Contraindications to the use of cooked carrots
The main negative quality of cooked carrots - a high glycemic index. Therefore, boiled carrots - junk foods on the table for people suffering from diabetes.