Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables

Posted on February 25, 2014 by john in Benefits of fruit

Fruits and vegetables are important sources of vitamins and other bioactive compounds in the diet and eating 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day is widely recommended because it is associated with a lower 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.
In addition to providing excellent nutrients to our body, ingesting helps us reduce the risk of diseases, among other things.

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

Benefits of fruit and Vegetables

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.

BROCOLI

Diuretics, used for eye inflammation. Contains abundant pantothenic acid and vitamin A that benefit the skin, has more vitamin C than citrus fruits and natural source of sulfur, iron and Vitamins B. If you slighly retain its chlorophyll content which counteracts the formation of sulfide gas created by its. He should be avoided in case of deficiency of thyroid or low in 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. It contains vitamin U which is a remedy for ulcers. For ulcers of the stomach or duodenum, take _ cup cabbage juice two or three times a day between meals for two weeks. It can be mixed with celery. It has a high content of sulfur destroys parasites and purifies the blood. When he eats and is used as a poultice while treats skin rash, leg ulcers, varicose veins, arthritis and injuries. Eating regularly helps to overcome col cold feet. To make the plaster scratch cabbage and mix with water and then wrap with a towel on affected area. 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

Benefits the lungs, improves liver function, stimulates the elimination of waste, is 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 chronic diarrhea and dysentery. It clears alkaline and acidity in the blood including acne, tonsillitis, rheumatism, is a ( antioxidant and pro-vitamin A) rich source of beta carotene which protects against cancer and is also used for ear infections and deafness. The beta -carotene benefits the skin. 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 take 2 glasses daily. The carrot soup helps children in their digestion. Consumption can debitilar kidneys followed with symptoms like hair loss. Not recommend taking more than 4 glasses daily.

CELERY

Calms the liver and improves digestion, purifies the blood, reduces wind conditions such as vertigo and nervousness, promotes sweating. Used for inflammation of eyes, burning with urination, blood in urine, acne, mouth sores. To control appetite can consume celery between and during meals. It combines well with fruit and 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 taking 2-4 cups of juice daily. It’s high in silicon and thus renew joints, bones, arteries. It is 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 treat bladder and kidney infections. Cools most heat or inflammatory conditions, including stomach inflammation, conjunctivitis, sore throat, acne, shock or inflammation 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 that processes the protein and cleanses the intestines. So it is good to destroy parasites. Not recommended for people with diarrhea. The peel of the cucumber is rich in silicon and chlorophyll. The shell will be used for swelling in hands and feet.

LETTUCE

Is sedative, diuretic, aid with edema and digestive fermentations ; contains more silicon than ordinary 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

Lower the level of fat 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 antitumor and can help stop cancer metastasis after surgery, promotes appetite.

EGGPLANT

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

PAPA

Energizes, lubricates the intestines, harmonizing the stomach and contains plenty of carbohydrates in the form of sugars. The potato neutralizes body acids and thus relieves arthritis and rheumatism, is rich in potassium and so it is good for those who use a lot of salt or high sodium foods. Reduce all inflammations. Its juice is applied externally to heal burns and is taken to lower blood pressure and to treat ulcers of the stomach and duodenum. 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 noted that eating lots of potatoes cause laziness.

TOMATO

It tones the stomach and cleanse the liver, purify the blood and detoxifies the body in general, promotes digestion and therefore is used when it has dropped appetite, indigestion or when no food retention, anorexia and constipation. Tomato relieves liver heat with symptoms like high blood pressure, red eyes and headache. Despite being an acidic fruit, after digestion tomato alkaline blood and therefore reduces the acidity in the blood and so helps in cases of rheumatism and gout. Ripe tomatoes are better than tomatoes harvested green and left to ripen because they can weaken kidney function. Tomatoes affecting calcium metabolism and should be avoided in cases of arthritis. Much weakens any 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 abundant food sulfide, a heating element that purifies the body and helps remove heavy metals and parasites as well as facilitate 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 for those looking oriental mental and spiritual refinement traditions.

GARLIC

It is the most pungent of the onion family. Promotes circulation and sweating, abdominal obstructions and removes stagnant food, inhibits the common cold virus, amoebas and other related degenerative diseases such as cancer microorganisms. Used to pneumonia, tuberculosis, asthma, diarrhea, snake bites, hepatitis. In chronic conditions should consume regularly for a few weeks before you feel improvements. Garlic eliminates toxins from the body including toxic metals such as cadmium and lead. 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 daily and also repels fleas when included in the food of animals. It is a remedy for athlete’s foot putting garlic powder in wet foot 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 them in 3 ounces of olive oil for 3 days. Then sift and has garlic oil. Garlic is contraindicated in hot conditions like face and red eyes, feeling of fever or aversion to cold, in case of fire and the desire for large quantities of cold drinks, also if you have dry mouth, intermittent fever, night sweats. The Chinese believe that much garlic damages the stomach and liver.