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Generally carrots – unique vegetable. It helps us to get out of hibernation as to a bear from a den. It, darling, to both health, and beauty huge help, especially at the end of winter.

Daucus carota L carrots are the biannual plant relating to family of umbrella. We consider it vegetable, and the whole Europe fruit.

Now it is hard to say, where exactly carrots appeared for the first time as it is eaten by the different people not less than 4 millennia. On walls of temples of Ancient Egypt the image of violet carrots remained. In a wild look carrots still grow in the countries of the Mediterranean, in America, Australia, New Zealand, in Africa …

It is considered that the first ancient Greeks who served it on feasts with olive oil began to cultivate carrots, then ancient Romans conceived a liking for carrots, other Europe tasted carrots in the 14th century.

In the Middle Ages carrots already won popularity in the majority of the countries of Europe. From it cooked snack, puddings, added to desserts and ice cream. To carrots the emperor Charles the Great and therefore carrots dishes constantly were present at its table was very not indifferent.

In the French and German cookbooks of the 16-17th centuries many interesting recipes from carrots remained. Long time carrots were considered as a delicacy and were available only to rich people. And only in the 17th century it entered a diet of other segments of the population, then the grade of the chastener which is still considered as the best was removed.

And here in Russia it is grown up from an extreme antiquity. It is considered that the Russian name of carrots came from an old Slavic word - "mjrka". Before revolution and later, in villages there was popular a tea from the dried carrot tops of vegetable.

For health it is necessary to eat the carrots having orange-red coloring of root crops in these root crops most of all carotene. Carrots contain: carotene – pro-vitamin A, vitamins: B2, B6, E, D, PP, C, K, nicotinic and folic acids, minerals - potassium, iron, cobalt, copper and also glucose, lecithin, starch, pectin, cellulose …

The first described carrots and Hippocrates 430 years BC reported about its useful impact on a human body. And here Pliny considered it a kind of a parsnip. In Russia from time immemorial carrots were used not only in food, but also as a herb.

Modern doctors claim that carrots promote treatment and prevention of 65 diseases. Some of them are sure that daily presence at a diet of carrots replaces vaccination against hepatitis B.

Carrots perfectly restore physical shape therefore it is appointed at breakdown, avitaminosis, chronic fatigue, big physical and intellectual activity.

Carrots are especially useful to women because it has antioxidant properties, it connects free radicals, keeping our beauty and protecting from oncology and cardiovascular diseases.

Carrots keep our sight, allowing it is better to see not only by the light of, but also in the dark, protect genetic the device from damages, improve a metabolism, increase immunity, promote improvement of work of a brain and normalize work of digestive tract.

The one who eats every day fresh carrots has good skin, healthy hair and strong teeth.

Carrots interfere with a set of excess weight. To lose weight without harm for health, it is necessary to eat the polished carrots mixed with the chopped cabbage and filled with olive oil with addition of lemon juice.

Carrot juice interferes with processes of rotting in a stomach that too well affects youth and an ukhozhennost of skin.

And, of course, carrots are used outwardly as national cosmetic.

- Juice of carrots is rubbed in head skin in 30 minutes prior to washing to make hair strong and brilliant.

- The Karotinovy face pack is useful practically to any type of skin as it possesses the unique moistening action. Carrot masks at the oily, pale, withering skin are especially useful. It helps to get rid of eels. 1 big juicy carrot to grate and add a small amount of talc. To put on a face for 15-20 minutes. If carrots dry, then, having grated, it are mixed with sour cream.

- To those women, that do not want to sunbathe, but want to have suntanned complexion, experts recommend 1-2 times to wipe in day a face with carrot juice.

Inside carrots should be used with fats – vegetable oils, sour cream, boiled carrots with butter because pro-vitamin A is dissolved only in fat and only with it it is acquired by an organism, granting us youth and beauty.