Who Wants Botox if Strawberries Can Do the Job?

Just a few days after a dear friend shared with us that she had indulged in Botx (shared with her mom to avoid overwhelming guilt), I heard on TV something that immediately made me pay attention: "Strawberries are better than Botox".

Since the best way to know if something works is testing, so I did.

I convinced Dacey and Mike to smear our faces with what I thought was going to look as poultice...wrong.

I crushed two fresh strawberries (next time will use only one) with a fork and added like an eight of a teaspoon of plain yogurt, then we applied it on the face, it looked as a thin film over the skin. We left it on for fifteen minutes and then washed with water from the tap at room temperature and blotted dry. Our skin looked radiant and felt the softest ever to the touch.

Dacey, who is naturally beautiful and has no wrinkles, received more compliments that day than ever. About the wrinkles? I suppose Mike and I will need to do it more than once but the results on the health of our skin were immediate, evident and long lasting.

So, I decided to do some research and believe me, it got very interesting.

One single cup of cut off strawberries is loaded with goodness and only has between 45 to 50 calories; look below:

1 gram of protein
11.65 grams carbohydrates
3.81 dietary fiber
23.24 mg. calcium
0.63 mg. iron
16.60 mg. magnesium
31.54 mg. phosphorus
44.882 mg. potassium
1.16 mg selenium
94.12 mg vitamin C
29.38 mcg folate
44.82 IU vitamin A

Highly esteemed since the ancient Romans due to their medicinal properties, strawberries are the owners of very complex genetics, eight sets of seven chromosomes. It is said that one ounce of strawberries has more vitamin C than an ounce of any citrus fruit.

Wearing its seeds on the outside, this delicious and fleshy fruit has the shape of a heart and comes to us through the rose family. Although the peak of its season runs from Arpil to July, strawberries are available all year thanks to modern logiestics.

Strawberries protect your heart, fight cancer and are great anti-inflammatories (without steroids); while drugs used for these purposes can cause serious side effects, strawberries cause none.

Strawberries, their leaves and their roots are used to promote health and have been know to treat ailments such as melancholy, apathy, fainting and kidney stones. Their potent antioxidants are also known to:

• Help protect cell structures in the body
• Prevent oxygen damage in all organ's systems
• Lower the risks of gastrointesninal and other types of cancers
• Protect against herpes simplex
• Protect against skin disorders, including acne
• Fight tretro-viruses, such as: HIV and T-cell leukemi virus, HTLV
• Protect against macular degeneration
• Protect against rheumatoid arthritis
• Repair cells from damage caused by againg process
• Prevent or slow down cognitive decline
• Sharpen powers of perception
• Control heart palpitations
• Purify the blood stream
• Cure nervous disorders
• Lower your fever
• Fight throat infections
• Prevent and fight halitosis
• Prevent gout
• Fight blood, liver and spleen diseases

However, if you suffer of an existing and untreated kidney or gallbladder problem, you may want to avoid eating strawberries. Please consult your physician.

Next post will be on how to preserve strawberries and also what lore has to say about them. Talk to you soon.