Eat Your Veggies
Vegetables are an essential part of a balanced diet, but it is one of the main areas of their eating lifestyle that most people skimp on. Daily eating guidelines suggest that the average adult in the US should eat 2.5 cups or about 5 half-cup servings of vegetables every day and the same amount of fruit.
If you are a vegetarian or vegan, you will need to eat large amounts of veggies to cover all of the bases nutritionally now that you have removed meat, fish and poultry from your diet.
Essential Eating Every Day
One of the main reasons why we need to eat so many vegetables every day is that the body can’t store certain vitamins and minerals, such as B and C. If we don’t replenish them, we can start to get deficient and suffer health problems as a result. Continue reading
The evidence is clear, cruciferous vegetables are loaded with a range of antioxidant plant compounds, and can help to control certain hormonal issues as well, which led to the hypothesis that cruciferous vegetables hold high anti-aging potential, as the compounds found in them are nothing short of life-extending.
Not sure where to start? The best place is to learn which cruciferous vegetables you should be eating:
- Cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Broccoli
- Kale
- Collard Greens
- Brussel Sprouts
- Radishes
- Bok Choy
