USEFULNESS OF VEGETABLES

Why should we get diet
rich vegetable nutrition?
What are the health
benefits of vegetables?
Well!
Vegetables, like fruits,
are low in fat but
contain good amounts
of vitamins and
minerals. All the Green-
Yellow-Orange
vegetables are rich
sources of calcium,
magnesium, potassium,
iron, beta-carotene,
vitamin B-complex,
vitamin-C, vitamin A,
and vitamin K.
As in fruits, vegetables
are also home for many
antioxidants that;
firstly, help body
protect from oxidant
stress, diseases and
cancers, and secondly,
help body develop
capacity to fight
against these by
boosting immunity.
In addition, vegetables
contain soluble as well
as insoluble dietary fiber
known as non-starch
polysaccharides (NSP)
like cellulose, gums,
mucilage, pectin...etc,
that absorb excess
water in the colon and
retain good amount of
moisture in the fecal
matter, thereby helps
its easy passage out of
the body. Thus helpful
in conditions like
hemorrhoids, chronic
constipation, rectal
fissures...etc.
...Go for greens to help
you stay fit and
healthy!
Vegetable nutrition has
widely drawn the
attention of fitness
conscious as well as
food scientists alike for
their proven health
benefits. Many
vegetables are very low
in calories, such as
celery which is even as
less than 10 cal per 100
g and here is the long
list of vegetables
whose calorie is
less than 20 per 100 g:
bottle gourd, bitter
melon, cabbage, chinese
cabbage, bok choy,
eggplant, endive,
spinach, summer
squash, swiss chard,
etc. Scientific studies
have shown that low
calorie but nutrient rich
foods help body stay fit
and disease free.
And, also our body
spends considerable
amount of energy
during digestion of
foods which is known
as BMR or Basal
metabolism rate. So
just imagine…when you
add more of vegetable
nutrition in the diet, in
fact, you set to lose
more weight than you
would gain…Right!..This
is the concept behind
the "negative calorie
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