Why Eating Vegetables Is Important

Vegetables provide you a lot of health benefits. Eating more fruits and vegetables as a part of your overall healthy diet provides you with the nutrients, that are vital for the health and maintenance of your body, you are also likely to have a reduced risk of some chronic diseases.

1. Nutrients present in the vegetables

• The eyes and skin is kept healthy by vitamin A, which also helps to protect against infections.
• Vitamin C helps to heal wounds and cuts and keeps gums and teeth healthy.
• As a part of an overall healthy diet, dietary fiber from the vegetables helps in lowering the risks of heart diseases, and the reduction of blood cholesterol levels. Fiber also improves bowel functions. It helps in reducing the diverticulosis and constipation. Foods like vegetables that contain fiber, provide the feeling of fullness and satisfaction with the fewer calories.
• Folic acid helps the body to form red blood cells. To reduce the risk of neural tube defects, spina-bifida, and anencephaly during fetal development, women of childbearing age who may become pregnant, should eat adequate food which contains folic acids and also 400 mcg of synthetic folic acid from fortified supplements or foods.
• Most vegetables are naturally low in the fats and calories, none contain cholesterol. Seasoning and sauce may add the calories, fat and cholesterol.
• Vegetables are the most important source of many nutrients, including dietary fiber, potassium, folic acid, vitamin A and vitamin C.
• Diets rich in the potassium will help in the maintenance of healthy blood pressure. Vegetables like white potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomato products like sauce, juice and paste, white beans, soybeans, beet greens, spinach, lima beans, kidney beans and lentils, are a great source of potassium

2. Health benefits

• Calorie intake can be reduced by eating foods such as vegetables that are low in calories per cup, instead of some other higher-calorie food.
• Eating more fruits and vegetables as a part of an overall healthy diet, may reduce the risk of heart diseases including the strokes and heart attack.
• The risks of heart diseases, obesity and type 2 diabetes, may be reduced by eating diet rich in foods containing fiber such as fruits and vegetables.
• The diet full of fruits and vegetables will resist against the different types of cancer.
• Eating fruits and vegetables rich in potassium as part of an overall healthy diet may lower the blood pressure and may also reduce the risk of developing kidney stones and help to decrease the bone loss.
• Must visit your doctor before making any changes in your diet plan.

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