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Fruits and vegetables have many health benefits in our nutrition and diet.
They provide us with a solar energy acquired by plants.
Fruits and vegetables contain alimentary fibers, which strip an organism of slags and promote development
of useful microorganisms in an intestine. They are more solid and, therefore,
require a good mastication and greater salivation, that hardens teeth.
Fruits and vegetables don't cause superfluous thirst, since they contain a lot of water,
which is better acquired by an organism.
Fruits and the sweet vegetables contain natural elements - fructose and glucose, which are easily acquired and give the greatest amount of energy. Health benefits of fruits and vegetables are determined by containing most vitamins and minerals. They have a variety of uses in many healthy recipes both in their natural form and as processed food. Vegetable oils are widely used in cooking. Refined vegetables provide sugar and starch, which are added to other food products. Food that is eaten on a regular basis make up a diet. To a high degree, what people eat affects their health and their enjoyment of life. A diet must contain all the essential nutrition: proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. If a person's diet is consistently deficient in any of these nutrients, health is impaired and disease may result. Those who avoid animal food are called vegetarians. Such people must plan their diet carefully to get balanced nutrition. Some aspects of the vegetarian diet currently are regarded as healthy alternatives to the modern diet consumed in many Western countries, which is high in animal fat and low in vegetable fiber. In nutritional terms, the vegetarian diet has been recognized as having some value in reducing the risk of heart disease, certain types of cancers, and other diet-related ailments. In general, a vegetarian diet consists of fruits and vegetables, grains, nuts, and seeds. Vegetarians tend to prefer natural nutrition - food in its most natural state, opposing the use of chemicals in growing or harvesting food and avoiding processed or canned food. Single vegetable products generally lack the essential amino acids found in animal products, but these amino acids can be included in a vegetarian diet by combining foods, such as beans and rice, that provide complementary amino acids. Care must be exercised in a strict vegetarian diet to make sure that there is sufficient vitamin B12. By some estimations, up to 90% of all illnesses occur from improper nutrition, and at 80-85% of cases the treatment by only one diet is possible. | |||||||||||||||
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