Veggies: Doing green pays, prolongs life

From Vegetables like fruits have low calories and fats but contain good amount of vitamins and minerals. So doing the all-green meal will take your life further, studies have found. All the green – yellow- orange vegetables are rich sources of calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, beta – carotene, vitamins A, B, C, and K. Recently, […]

From Vegetables like fruits have low calories and fats but contain good amount of vitamins and minerals. So doing the all-green meal will take your life further, studies have found. All the green – yellow- orange vegetables are rich sources of calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, beta – carotene, vitamins A, B, C, and K.
Recently, scientists in their proven health benefits of vegetables stated that nutrition in vegetable has widely drawn the attention of fitness, conscious as well as food. Majority of day- to – day used vegetable are very low in calories and saturated fats. For example Celery holds just 16 calories per 100 g.
The long list of vegetables whose calories are less than 20 per 100 g such as bottle gourd , bitter melon, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, bok – choy, eggplant, endive, spinach, summer squash, swiss chard, etc.
Inclusively, scientific studies have shown that the low – calorie but nutrient – rich foods help human body stay fit and free from diseases.
However, human body spends a considerable amount of energy for the metabolism of foods which is known as BMR or Basal Metabolism Rate. So, when you add lots of vegetable nutrition in your every day diet, you set to lose more weight than you would gain.
Also, vegetables do help the body to develop the capacity to fight against infections and boost immunity.
Above’ all, vegetables are packed with soluble as well as insoluble dietary fibre known as Non- Starch P olysaccharides (NSP) such as cellulose, mucilage, hemi- cellulose, gums pectin and so on.
These substances absorb excess water in the colon, retain a good amount of moisture in the fecal matter and help its smooth passage out of the body. Thus, sufficient fiber offers protection from conditions like chronic constipation, hemorrhoids, colon cancer, irritable bowel syndrome, and rectal fissures. Try it!