Amazing Benefits Of Eating Vegetables

Vegetables here refer to various leafy plants that are usually cultivated or grown and used as part of human diet or food. Vegetables are among food items that can promote your healthy living. This is because vegetable contain various vitamins and minerals peculiar which are peculiar to different types of vegetables.
Therefore, eating sufficient variety of vegetables help to prevent certain non-communicable chronic diseases in your body like type 2 diabetes, stroke, blood pressure, hypercholesterolemia or (high blood cholesterol), osteoporosis i.e. (thinning of the bones, with reduction in bone mass or size), chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases or ( respiratory problems e.g. asthma, emphysema etc. which refers to an hindrance in flow of air in and out of the lungs), heart disease, cancers—because vegetables contain antioxidants that can prevent cancers, and hyperlipidemia which is (high fat or lipid levels in the blood)– of which may increase the risk of blood vessels diseases that can cause stroke and heart disease. For better understanding, permit me to describe hyperlipidemia as the transportation of harmful cholesterol particles in the bloodstream which may lead to chronic health problems.
More importantly, eating sufficient vegetables will surely help you to reduce the risk of the above mentioned diseases and particularly the harmful cholesterol in your body thereby, preventing a substantial amount of harmful cholesterol particles from getting into your bloodstream. Additionally, vegetables contain antioxidants, which help the body to remove the free radicals that can cause both external and internal unhealthy swelling (inflammation) in any part of the body including the brain. Vegetables also contain high fiber contents which are beneficial to the body such as preventing constipation, diabetes, promoting gut health, maintaining healthy weight, and reducing serum cholesterol i.e. (amount of lipids or fats in the bloodstream or total blood cholesterol which includes LdL, triglycerides) among others.
However, vegetables contain different essential nutrients that promote brain health and aid good brain functions. Such nutrients include vitamin K, lutein, Folate, alpha-tocopherol or (vitamin E), kaempferol, beta carotene and nitrate-(although nitrate is subjected to further study and research on this role). Vegetables are rich in all these nutrients and they have the potentials to improve on your cognitive health. Additionally, vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) may also prevent heart diseases and cancer of the lung. Kaempferol is also an essential Flavonol or organic compound with various functions and health benefits such as being antioxidant, anti-inflammatory i.e. (preventing unhealthy swollen in the body), anti-cancer, cardio-protective, neuro-protective, anti-allergic and anti-diabetic. To explain just a few, you can imagine the enormous health benefits of supporting your food intake with sufficient vegetables.
Furthermore, study shows that more consumption of vegetables and fruits has great potential to protect your heart (cardio-protective). Apart the fact that vegetables are essential for human nutrition, they also support healthy skin and easy digestion of food in the digestive tract or (your stomach), thereby, making food nutrients content absorbable in your body. You know when some people grow older, they may begin to suffer from poor digestion, vegetables can be a source of help as you grow older, they may begin to suffer from gradually poor digestion, vegetables can be a source of help as you grow older gradually to prevent to prevent you from poor digestion. In fact, due to various natural nutrients in vegetables hence, it will not be an overstatement to say that vegetables have the potential to keep your body healthy and active as grow older.
Vegetables are rich in potassium which helps to prevent kidney stones’ development and reduce the risk of blood pressure amongst other health benefits in your body. They also support healthy brain development as earlier noted because, they contain antioxidants and folates which also known as folic acid. It’s important to note that a lack of folic acid during pregnancy can increase the risk of birth defects, which may impair both the spinal cord and the brain. Studies have also shown that a sufficient consumption of vegetables may help to prevent dementia and Alzhimer’s disease that may occur at old age. Moreover, vegetables contain vitamin C an essential nutrient your body needs to form and maintain bones, blood vessels and the skin. Vitamin C helps to produce collagen needed to maintain healthy teeth, bones, gums, cartilage, and skin amongst others. Vegetables therefore, are among, the food items that help to boost immunity.
To this end, it’s needed to say that adequate vegetables consumption will provide nutritional support for your body, improve your immune system, reduce your risk from certain health problems like harmful inflammation, and prevent you from diseases and other illnesses. In addition, adequate, consumption of vegetables prevents you from diseases and illnesses without costing you a lot of money. This is noteworthy as it agrees with the saying ‘prevention is better than cure’. In other words, eating sufficient vegetables to ensure your health living can be said to be cost-effective! For example, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals the management of heart diseases costs about 239.9 billion US Dollar in each year of 2018 to 2019. The costs include health care services, medicines and acute reduction in productivity due to untimely deaths which eventually resulted from such disseases. Likewise, in Canada only cardiovascular disease cost 212 billion dollar. The costs include both direct costs i.e. (medical expenditure or expense) and indirect costs i.e. (lost earnings). Indeed, vegetables have amazing benefits to promote your healthy living without costing you so much money!
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