Eat Your Vegetables! Getting the most out of Vitamins and Nutrients in Vegetables
Eat your vegetables! It may have been a while since you heard that piece of age old advice, but it is just as relevant in your adulthood. Many of us grown-ups still retain a resistance to vegetables. Finding new and simple ways to incorporate them in your diet can be a challenge, but one that is worth it for the rewards. The benefits of eating vegetables are two-fold. First, you are filling your body with vitamins and minerals not always available in other foods. Also, if you are filling up on veggies, you are less likely to fill up on empty calories. Knowing which vitamins and nutrients are in vegetables and what they do for your health, can help you reconsider your rocky relationship.Vitamin A: Found in asparagus, broccoli, carrots, peas, and kale, vitamin A helps promote healthy skin and eyesight and aids in bone growth and tooth development.
Thiamine (Vitamin B1): B1 is great for your heart, and other muscles. It also helps your body convert carbs into energy. B1 is found in avocados and peas.
Niacin (Vitamin B3): Aids in converting food into energy and helps keep your digestive system healthy. You can get good levels of B3 in artichokes, broccoli, peas, green peppers, mushrooms, potatos, carrots, and peas.
Vitamin C: A powerful antioxidant that helps you body absorb iron and encourages a healthy immune system, Vitamin C is found in vegetable like tomatoes, spinach, sweet potatoes, kale, squash, carrots, cucumbers, and broccoli.
Vitamin D: Found in mushrooms, Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium and magnesium.
Vitamin K: Vitamin K helps your body absorb proteins and regulate calcium in the blood. Vegetables like asparagus, broccoli, kale, and spinach are good sources of this important vitamin.
True, you can pop a pill and get your vitamins in one easy second. While a multivitamin is easier than eating your vegetables, vegetable consumption can aid in weight loss and a healthy lifestyle unlike a multivitamin can. By slowly increasing your daily vegetable servings you can decrease high calorie substitutions while giving your body the vitamins it needs to function properly.
Ya, many teenagers avoid eating vegetables they love to eat oily and baked food. But they don’t their body needs vitamins and to get vitamins they have to eat vegetables. This article might be helpful for those who aoid eating vegetables.
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