5 Foods Rumored To Help Keep Your Ladyparts Healthy, Examined

4. Cranberries

What It’s Supposed To Do: Cranberries contain an active ingredient that can keep bacteria from sticking to the walls of your bladder — which can keep you from developing a urinary tract infection. That’s, like, Vagina 101, right?
What The Research Says: For a remedy we’re all raised to believe in, the connection between cranberries and UTI prevention has yet to be proven in any formal scientific studies. While researchers believe that an ingredient in cranberries can definitely keep many harmful bacterias, including E. Coli, from successfully sticking on your bladder walls, they also claim that most commercially available cranberry productsdon’t contain enough of the ingredient for it to effectively prevent the infections. In fact, a 2012 study found that cranberry supplements weren’t more effective in preventing or treating UTIs than a placebo. Also, sadly, consuming any amount of cranberries won’t do anything for a UTI that has already developed.
Should You Eat It?: You may want to skip the cranberries — most cranberry juicesthat you can buy at the grocery store have a lot of added sugar (which, as we previously noted, does not do anything for the health of your Grand Budapest Hotel). And if you already have a UTI, you should definitely see a doctor instead of messing around with Thanksgiving side dish ingredients.–Please Click “Next”or “Open”To Read More