Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables

Posted on August 20, 2013 by john in Benefits of fruit

Fruits and vegetables are important sources of vitamins and other bioactive compounds in diet and consumption of 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day is widely recommended because it is associated with a reduced risk of chronic diseases.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that all people should try to eat at least 5 servings of vegetables and / or different fruits daily.

What many seem to be too much or almost impossible, but not if we think of the various ways we have to eat these foods, such as juices, salads, or eat them as a snack.
Besides providing excellent nutrients our bodies, eating them helps to reduce the risk of diseases, among other things.

If you do not know the benefits of vegetables and fruits contribute to your health here are some interesting facts:

Vegetables and their Benefits

Beet

It strengthens the heart, improves circulation, purifies the blood, benefits the liver, moistens the intestines and treats constipation, promotes menstruation. Used with carrot to regulate hormones during menopause. Rich in silicon.

BROCCOLI

Diuretics, used for eye inflammation. It contains abundant vitamin pantothenic acid and skin benefit, has more vitamin C than citrus and natural source of sulfur, iron and B vitamins If you slighly retain its chlorophyll content which counteracts the formation of gas created by the sulfur. He should be avoided in case of thyroid deficiency or a low iodine.

COL

Moisten the intestines, benefits the stomach, improves digestion and skin. Try cold or soup and helps you cough, improves mental depression and irritability and helps cleanse the digestive system cuicas, garlic is used against parasites. Contains vitamin U which is a remedy for ulcers. For stomach or duodenal ulcers, take _ cup cabbage juice two or three times a day between meals for two weeks. You can mix with celery. Has a large sulfur content destroying parasites and purifies the blood. When he eats and is used as a poultice treats while rash, leg ulcers, varicose veins, arthritis and injuries. Eating regularly helps to overcome col cold feet. To make the plaster scratch the cabbage and mix with water and then wrap the affected area with a towel. You can also crush the leaves and put directly into the affected area. Contains yoda and is rich in vitamin C (more than oranges), the outer leaves have concentrated Vitamin E and have more calcium than the inner leaves.

Carrot

It benefits the lungs, improves liver function, stimulates the elimination of wastes, is a diuretic, dissolves accumulations such as stones or tumors, treats indigestion including excess acidity in the stomach, removes putrefactive bacteria in the intestines that cause poor assimilation; used for diarrhea and chronic dysentery. It clears alkaline and acidity in the blood including acne, tonsillitis, rheumatism, is a rich source of beta carotene (antioxidant and pro vitamin A) that protects against cancer and is also used for ear infections and deafness. Beta-carotene the skin benefits. Relieves cough, heals burns juice applied directly. Incremental breast milk and regulates hormones. Help calcium metabolism. You can eat 6 ounces a day for any of these conditions or drink 2 cups daily. Carrot soup helps children in their digestion. Consumption can debitilar kidneys followed with symptoms like hair loss. Not recommend taking more than 4 glasses per day.

CELERY

Calms the liver and improves digestion, purifies the blood, reduces wind conditions as vertigo and nervousness, promotes sweating. Used for inflammation of eyes, burning with urination, blood in urine, acne, mouth sores. For appetite control can consume celery between and during meals. It blends well with fruits and with a little lemon juice is a good remedy for the common cold when fever is more prominent than the chills. It is also a good combination for headaches caused by high blood pressure or heart conditions such as red face, hot head, red tongue or irritability. The juice alone or combined with lemon is good for diabetes drinking 2-4 cups of juice daily. It’s high in silicon and thus renews joints, bones, arteries. It’s good for rheumatism, arthritis, gout and inflammation of nerves. It is a safe remedy for high blood pressure during pregnancy.

CUCUMBER

Counteracts toxins and helps to lift depression, cleanses the blood, quenches thirst, cleanses the skin, acts as a digestive aid especially in the form of pickles. Apply the juice to burns, especially of sun juice also helps to treat bladder and kidney infections. Cools most heat or inflammatory conditions, including stomach inflammation, conjunctivitis, sore throat, acne, discharge or swelling of the skin. Grated cucumber placed on the face beautifies the skin. Relieves eye locating a piece above. Contains erepsis which is a digestive enzyme and protein processing cleanses the bowel. So it is good to destroy parasites. Not recommended for people with diarrhea. The skin of the cucumber is rich in silicon and chlorophyll. The shell will be used for swelling in the hands and feet.

LETTUCE

It is sedative, diuretic, aid with edema and digestive fermentations; contains more silicon than common vegetables. Used to start or increase breast milk and to treat hemorrhoids. It combines well with fruit and contains the lactucarium sedative that relaxes the nerves without impairing digestion. Do not use if there is any eye disease. Many lettuce can cause dizziness.

COMMON FUNGI

Low fat levels in the blood, helps to let go of excess mucus in the respiratory system, has antibiotic properties and can be used to treat infectious hepatitis, increase the count of white blood cells and therefore enhances immunity has activity tumor and may help stop cancer metastasis post surgery, promotes appetite.

EGGPLANT

Reduces swelling and dissolves accumulations such as tumors resulting from stagnant blood, reduces bleeding and therefore is used for bleeding hemorrhoids, blood in the urine is a rich source of bioflavonoids that regenerate the arteries and prevent devastating attacks and other hemorrhages. For scorpions or snakes bites can put a piece of raw eggplant. Help solve repressed emotions and their harmful effects on organs like the liver and uterus. Should not be too consumed by pregnant women precisely because of its relationship to blood and that can cause abortions. It really is a fruit and combined with other non-starchy vegetables.

PAPA

Gives energy, lubricates the intestines, harmonizing the stomach and contains plenty of carbohydrates in the form of sugars. The potato neutralizes acids that the body and relieves arthritis and rheumatism, is rich in potassium and is therefore good for those who use a lot of salt or high-sodium foods. Reduces all inflammations. Its juice is applied externally to heal burns and is taken to lower blood pressure and to treat stomach and duodenal ulcers. Even fresh potato juice has antibiotic properties. Helps establish beneficial intestinal flora is rich in vitamin C, enzymes and minerals especially when it is consumed in the shell. Rudolph Steiner observed that eating lots of potatoes cause laziness.

TOMATO

It tones the stomach and liver cleanses, purifies the blood and detoxifies the body in general, promotes digestion and therefore is used when the appetite is down, when indigestion or food retention, anorexia and constipation. The tomato relieves liver heat with symptoms like high blood pressure, red eyes and headache. Despite being a fruit acid after alkaline digestion tomato blood and therefore reduces the acidity in the blood and so helps in cases of rheumatism and gout. Ripe tomatoes are better than the tomatoes picked green and left to ripen because they can weaken kidney function. Tomatoes affecting calcium metabolism and should be avoided in cases of arthritis. Much weaker anyone tomato. Consume at most one or two tomatoes a day.

ONION

All members of the onion family share certain qualities: they are pungent and affect the lungs, promote that move heat and energy in the body; resolve blood stagnation. They are perhaps the most nutritionally dense sulfide, a heating element that purifies the body and helps to remove heavy metals and parasites in addition to facilitating the metabolism of amino acids (protein). Those who have a high protein diet benefit from the onion family. These plants clean the arteries and slow the growth of viruses, fermentations, and pathogens that proliferate in people with unbalanced diets. Despite its medicinal virtue, is also thought to promote excessive emotional desire and therefore not recommended mostly in Eastern traditions for those seeking mental and spiritual refinement.

GARLIC

Is more pungent the onion family. Promotes circulation and sweating, abdominal obstruction and removes stagnant food, inhibits the common cold virus, amoebas and other microorganisms associated with degenerative diseases such as cancer. Used to pneumonia, tuberculosis, asthma, diarrhea, snake bites, hepatitis. In chronic conditions should be consumed regularly for a few weeks to feel improvement. Garlic eliminates toxins from the body including poisonous metals such as cadmium and lead. For cold, sore throat and headache caused by sinusitis: Hold a clove of garlic for at least 15 minutes in the mouth and then consume it. To ward off mosquitoes eat a clove of garlic every day and also repels fleas if included in the food of animals. It is a remedy for athlete’s foot putting garlic powder on the foot wet and then letting it dry. A drop of garlic oil in the ear once a day helps to clear ear infections. To make the oil crush several cloves of garlic and soak in 3 ounces of olive oil for 3 days. Then sift and has the garlic oil. Garlic is contraindicated in cases of hot conditions like face and red eyes, feeling of warmth or heat aversion, if fire and desire of large quantities of cold drinks, even when your mouth is dry, intermittent fever, night sweats . The Chinese believe that much garlic damages the stomach and liver.