Many people today consume way too few fruits and vegetables and their health will probably take a hit for it somewhere down the road. However, it's never too late to increase your intake to fortify your health and lose weight!
AT LEAST five servings of fruits and vegetables a day is recommended to reap the health benefits from nature's bounty. Feel free to aim even higher though, there's practically no limit of how much you can eat of delicious, colorful veggies and fruits. If you're watching your carbs you should however note that sweet fruits like bananas and grapes do contain a fair ammount of sugars.If you want to optimalize what veggies and fruits you're buying and keeping in your fridge, think COLOR.
A strong and bright color on your veggies is a general indicator of a high content of antioxidants, flavanoids and vitamins. These nutrients all contribute to giving you better overall health and reducing risk of all sorts of diseases. And you'll feel and look great too! What's to lose?
Red treats like strawberries, peppers, tomatoes and pomegrenate, for example, are especially high in vitamin C and a substance called lycopene. Vitamin C is vital for many processes in your body, the production of collagen (essential for young looking skin) and acting as a powerful antioxidant to name a couple.
Lycopene is thought to reduce risk of certain cancers, especially prostate cancer. However lycopene is better absorbed in the intestine if the vegetable has been heated before consumption. Treating tomatoes with heat is therefore essential if you want to increase your intake of this wonderful nutrient.
A very useful and iformative site about nutrition value is http://nutritiondata.self.com/. This website covers pretty much everything when it comes to nutritional value of food. Everything from fresh produce to "add water soups". Check it out if you're curious about what your food really contains!
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ReplyDeleteThis blog is a good initiative and a very good read! Thank you.
I do however have a comment.
When you make statements about the benefits of this and that and maintain that they help to prevent some types of cancers you should provide a link to the original research article that proves this.
This has become a huge problem in the media and basically everything that people write on the internet these days. They throw out all kinds of statements without any references.
Regards!
Hulda
Hey Hulda!
ReplyDeleteYou're absolutely right! I will get better at posting links and sources to back my claims.
I'll try to find some studies to back my claims in already published articles too;)
Have a good one!
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