The Health Benefits Of Eating Vegetables

 Vegetables are very important source of many nutrients to the body, it really plays a major role in improving our health. Studies has shown that those who usually have the intake of vegetables at about 7 times or more in a day, have up to 40% less risk of dying from any disease or sickness, compared to those who eat less than once. You see how wonderful vegetables are ?

 In Nigeria many households cook vegetables, which is not supposed to be so. Vegetables are supposed to face little or no heat, so that you could benefit from it's nutritional value.

 Here are a few benefits of vegetables:

1. IT CAN REDUCE BLOATING AND GAS PROBLEMS IN YOUR SYSTEM:

 "Bloating and gas" relates to how you eat vegetables, what really causes bloating is when you drink using straw, drink carbonated water or chew gum. Bloating makes food not to move quickly through your digestive tract. When you over eat, or you eat very fast and maybe you didn't chew your food  well then there are chances that could contribute to bloating.

2. VEGETABLES KEEP YOU YOUNG !!:

It is true that vegetables makes you younger (naturally), I know many people will love this...Vegetables reduces wrinkles by hydrating your skin, vegetables contain nutrients that help people not to age, by preventing the cell from getting damaged, due to stress, environmental toxins and also ultraviolet light. Tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and some other vegetables are very good in this aspect.

3. VEGETABLES STRENGTHEN YOUR BONES:

Many people might not know about this but it really works. Vegetable usually offer a high level of bio-available forms of calcium, magnesium and other minerals that can build you strong and healthy bones.

4. VEGETABLES REDUCE THE RISK OF NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS IN WOMEN:

Folic acid in vegetables help pregnant women in their first trimester of pregnancy (first three months of pregnancy) to reduce the risk of neural tube defects during the development of the foetus.

 So with these few four powerful benefits of vegetables that I have given, am sure the next time you are off to the market you will get lots of vegetables to cosume...