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Heart Healthy Food - Vegetable Benefit Facts
One of very important benefits of vegetable is as heart healthy food. As we all have known that we can get
many important nutrients from green veggies such as magnesium,
iron, calcium, folate, vitamin C and B6. More and more, photochemical in green veggies is one of important
content against cancer and heart attack.
Some researches conducted in Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Centre on Aging of Tufts University
of Boston and Framingham, USA, have examined more than 1000 people between 67-95 years old. Study was
focused on heart healthy food, that is foods related to heart healthiness. And the followings should
become your points of interest:
They found that, vegetables is best to be served by steaming to keep its nutrient contents. This way, they
can control homocystine level, because when our body keeps this material in high level, they will turn to be
a toxic that will cause artery obstruction and heart disease. A study to some people of 67's ages above shows that 43% of men and 34% of women mostly suffers an
artery obstruction. The high level of homocystine in their blood causes it. Our body uses folate, vitamin B12 and B6 to control homocystine. This folate and vitamin B6 contained in
green veggies. That is why green veggies are highly recommended to prevent homocystine increasing. Green
veggies such as spinach also contain magnesium, calium and calcium. All of them are beneficial contents
for hearts.
Excessive natrium consumption also can raise blood tension. It is getting worse, if magnesium, calium
and calcium intake is low. It is important to know that calcium in spinach is quite difficult to digest. That
is the reason why variety green veggies consumption is recommended. As vegetarian become more and more popular, it is also important to understand that most green veggies
as calcium source also contain oxalate, a component that prevent calcium absorption. Since they avoid meat,
surely they will lack of some other mineral such as iron. Green veggies can help them, because they contain
iron, an important component to produce haemoglobin. However, iron in green veggies is not easily absorbed
compare to which contained in meat. In this case, vitamin C is needed to help the absorption. Whether cooked or raw is the best way to serve vegetables? The experts says that the most important thing
is, cook it quickly. In fact, you have many alternative cooking methods to serve vegetables. And that what
this site was composed for, to give you some ideas on cooking vegetable for specific methods.
Besides what we've discussed above, some more benefits
of vegetable as natural home remedy can be reviewed in
Natural Medicine for Osteoporosis,
Home Remedies for Rheumatism and
Vegetable as Anemia
Natural Cure.
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