Importance Of Vegetables - Healthy Food - Salad & Soup
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Eating enough vegetables each day is important to help you maintain your health. Consuming enough vegetables, while staying within your caloric needs.Along with tasting great,vegetables are low in calories and fat and high in vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Eating lots of vegetables as part of a low-fat, high-fiber diet may help reduce blood pressure, manage weight, and reduce risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer.
The color of a vegetable means something more than what it looks like. The colors of vegetables are affected by the vitamins and minerals contained therein. Having a literally colorful diet is important for your health.Take advantage of easy options such as precut, cleaned, and packaged fresh vegetables. Frozen, diced, or canned vegetables are also easy to use.
Busy lives can benefit from food that's nutritious, yet easy to eat on-the-go, like fresh vegetables. Vegetables are a natural source of energy and give the body many nutrients you need to keep going.Food is that which nurtures us, body and soul; which makes us more alive.
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Most healthy eating plans allow for one or two small snacks a day. Choosing most vegetables will allow you to eat a snack with only 100 calories.The nutritional and health benefits of eating vegetables as well as the basic processes by which vegetables enter the consumer food chain; the controls in place to protect consumers from potential risks.
Eating vegetable are one really great way to help with anyone's slimming and diet strategy and I'm surprised more people don't jump onto this bandwagon and switch their diets over to more healthy vegetables and less of the unhealthy food..Fruits and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet. Your local markets carry an amazing variety of fresh fruits and vegetables that are both nutritious and delicious.

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Eating plenty of vegetables and fruits can help you ward off heart disease and stroke, control blood pressure, prevent some types of cancer, avoid a painful intestinal ailment called diverticulitis, and guard against cataract and macular degeneration, two common causes of vision loss.The biggest payoff from eating fruits and vegetables is for the heart.
Potatoes are not counted as a vegetable, since they are mostly starch and should be used sparingly.Average American gets a total of just three servings of fruits and vegetables a day. The latest dietary guidelines call for five to thirteen servings of fruits and vegetables a day (2½ to 6½ cups per day), depending on one's caloric intake. For a person who needs 2,000 calories a day to maintain weight and health, this translates into nine servings, or 4½ cups per day (2 cups of fruit and 2½ cups of vegetables).

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Vegetables, Fruits, and Cardiovascular Disease
There is compelling evidence that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can lower the risk of heart disease and stroke.Although all fruits and vegetables likely contribute to this benefit, green leafy vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, and mustard greens; cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, bok choy, and kale; and citrus fruits such as oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruit (and their juices) make important contributions..Individuals who ate more than 5 servings of fruits and vegetables per had roughly a 20 percent lower risk of coronary heart disease and stroke, compared with individuals who ate less than 3 servings per day.
Vegetables, Fruits, and Blood Pressure

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Vegetables on a fork High blood pressure is a primary risk factor for heart disease and stroke. As such, it's a condition that is important to control. Diet can be a very effective tool for lowering blood pressure.This fruit and vegetable-rich diet lowered blood pressure even more when some of the carbohydrate was replaced with healthy unsaturated fat or protein.
Vegetables, Fruits, and Cancer
Numerous early studies revealed what appeared to be a strong link between eating fruits and vegetables and protection against cancer.A more likely possibility is that some types of fruits and vegetables may protect against certain cancers. A massive report by the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research suggests that non-starchy vegetables-such as lettuce and other leafy greens, broccoli, bok choy, cabbage, as well as garlic, onions, and the like-and fruits "probably" protect against several types of cancers, including those of the mouth, throat, voice box, esophagus, and stomach; fruit probably also protects against lung cancer.

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One of the wonderful components of fruits and vegetables is their indigestible fiber. As fiber passes through the digestive system, it sops up water like a sponge and expands. This can calm the irritable bowel and, by triggering regular bowel movements, can relieve or prevent constipation. The bulking and softening action of insoluble fiber also decreases pressure inside the intestinal tract and so may help prevent diverticulosis (the development of tiny, easily irritated pouches inside the colon) and diverticulitis (the often painful inflammation of these pouches).
Vegetables, Fruits, and Vision
variety of fruits Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables also keeps your eyes in good shape. You may have learned that the vitamin A in carrots aids night vision. Other fruits and vegetables help prevent two common aging-related eye diseases-cataract and macular degeneration-which afflict millions of Americans over age 65. Cataract is the gradual clouding of the eye's lens, a disk of protein that focuses light on the light-sensitive retina..
Dark green leafy vegetables-such as spinach and kale-contain two pigments, lutein and zeaxanthin, that accumulate in the eye; these pigments are found in other brightly colored fruits and vegetables as well, including corn, squash, kiwi, and grapes. These two pigments appear to be able to snuff out free radicals before they can harm the eye's sensitive tissue.
Vegetables and fruits are clearly an important part of a good diet. Almost everyone can benefit from eating more of them, but variety is as important as quantity. No single fruit or vegetable provides all of the nutrients you need to be healthy. The key lies in the variety of different vegetables and fruits that you eat.
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Do you eat vegetables daily?

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Alex_Mathews says:
I eat lots of vegetables everyday!! But then... I am a vegetarian!
cffutah says:
I've got V8s at my desk in case I need my vegetables.
vineliner says:
I try too.
paullenton says:
Yup! Tomatoes, raw spinach, avocado, cucumber and sometimes green onions.
daftrude says:
I Love Veggies. & Vaggies... :D
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Tomatos Specific components of fruits and vegetables may also be protective against cancer.Tomatoes may help protect men against prostate cancer, especially aggressive forms of it. One of the pigments that give tomatoes their red hue-lycopene-could be involved in this protective effect. Increased consumption of tomato-based products (especially cooked tomato products) and other lycopene-containing foods may reduce the occurrence of prostate cancer.Lycopene is one of several carotenoids (compounds that the body can turn into vitamin A) found in brightly colored fruits and vegetables, and research suggests that foods containing carotenoids may protect against lung, mouth, and throat cancer. (7) But more research is needed before we know the exact relationship between fruits and vegetables, carotenoids, and cancer.
Vegetables, Fruits, and Gastrointestinal Health

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Alex_Mathews
May 21, 2012 @ 9:03 am | delete
- Great lens!!
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cffutah
Jan 20, 2012 @ 9:29 am | delete
- enjoyed reading about this and participating in your lens, nicely done.
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waldenthree.net
Dec 9, 2011 @ 2:16 pm | delete
- Beautiful lens. Your topic is better than mine on container gardening for veggies. Thanks.
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BuddyBink
Nov 24, 2011 @ 5:48 pm | delete
- Excellent lens. Vegetables are important to proper diet. Wish more people would take this into consideration. Thank You
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BlueTrane
Nov 18, 2011 @ 10:35 pm | delete
- nice lens. check out mine on smoked vegetarian pasta primavera and smoked beets and carrots!
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- RT @Biebs1Derland: Mum:"what vegetables should I buy?" Me: "ehm..Avocado." Mum:"Avocado is a fruit!" Me:"Zayn said Avocado is a vegetable & he's ALWAYS right."
- @Lynse_Lohan ahh ok, I was just trying to get some more vegetables lls
- RT @ItsJennaMarbles: Vodka is made from potatoes, potatoes are vegetables, and vegetables are good for you. You're welcome.
- RT @Biebs1Derland: Mum:"what vegetables should I buy?" Me: "ehm..Avocado." Mum:"Avocado is a fruit!" Me:"Zayn said Avocado is a vegetable & he's ALWAYS right."
- @fugou This dish is easy to do, first fried rice with various vegetables then fried eggs, roll rice fried into egg fried and last is ketchup
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