Vegetables consists of rich nutrition and perfect for those who want to slim and smart personality!
The vegetables are foods that help hydrate our bodies by their high water content, besides having many nutrients and health to be excellent. They are rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber and low in starch and sugars, which explains its low caloric intake for an excellent diet. They are also a source of indisputable substances antioxidant action. For all these reasons are deemed critical to health and indispensable within the concept of balanced diet, which is more representative model Mediterranean diet.
The Mediterranean diet, based mainly in the consumption of vegetables, helps reduce the risk of diseases maximum impact in countries of high welfare, including cardiovascular, cancer and degenerative diseases.
The recommendations of consumption of fresh vegetables are between three and five servings per day, i.e., a minimum of 400 grams daily.
Along with fruit, are the main dietary sources of vitamin C and vitamin A. Many also are excellent source of other nutrients, fiber and antioxidants and have a low content of protein and fat. To meet the recommendations, although it may seem an elusive goal, it would be sufficient to consume vegetables in the first plate and accompanying the latter, both as food for dinner. It would at least be that a serving of salad because this is the way that best preserves all its nutrients. To understand it better, it would be enough to make an approach similar to that described below: spinach (200 grams) with chick peas and at dinner, mashed potatoes and vegetables (150 grams) and fish with a tomato salad (120 grams). This leads to stress how important it is to continue launching campaigns to promote greater consumption of fresh vegetables. These should extend to the general population and health professionals and the media. Its success will lead to more easily incorporating these foods so essential in the diet for good health in sufficient quantities.
The term refers to vegetables all herbaceous plants that are grown and are suitable for consumption, either raw or cooked. The term vegetable refers exclusively to the green bodies, namely, leaves and tender stems or inflorescence (flower).
The concept of vegetables also include fresh vegetables or green beans and peas as fresh, of which no one speaks in this guide because its composition differs significantly in relation to the rest of vegetables.
May 29 2008 07:27 am | Product Discussion