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7 reasons you should eat fruits everyday

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8 years ago

October 16, 2016

7 reasons you should eat fruits everyday

We were probably all told to eat up our vegetables by our parents, yet fewer than 25 percent eat enough of them. The recommended daily amount of fresh fruit and vegetables for an adult is five servings.

That’s servings of fresh vegetables, or whole pieces of fruit. With so many different varieties of delicious fruit and veg available, it really is surprising that so many people don’t eat enough.

If you need convincing that it’s worth eating more, here are seven extremely good reasons you should eat more fruit and vegetables every day.

1. Protects you against heart disease: There is a direct correlation between low vegetable consumption and heart disease and the reason is that vegetables are the best natural source of antioxidants that there is. When the bad cholesterol, LDL, in your body oxidises, that is when it becomes dangerous and can cause heart disease.

2. Helps maintain the health of your eyes: There have been studies that have proven that eating some of the antioxidants in vegetables and fruit have a direct impact on the health of your eyes.

3. Boosts the immune system: Eating more vegetables will also boost your immune system and that means fewer coughs and colds and other ailments. Fruit and vegetables provide your body with a whole range of important vitamins and minerals, which keep your immune system in good working order.

4. Helps you maintain a healthy weight: Fruit and vegetables are very good for you when you are losing weight, or just trying to maintain a healthy weight. Despite the immense nutritional benefits of fruit and veggies, they are low in calories. They also help fill you up and that crowds out the unhealthy foods that you may have otherwise been tempted to eat.

5. Helps reduce the risk of diabetes: Eating more leafy green vegetables could reduce the risk of you developing diabetes. Although experts do say that more research is needed in this area, researchers at the University of Leicester in England carried out a study that found that people who ate about one and a half servings of green vegetables a day had a decreased risk if developing type 2 diabetes.

6. Removes toxins from the body: If you are not eating enough vegetables, your digestion will suffer and, was well as that causing uncomfortable constipation, it will also make your body less efficient at removing toxins.

7. Helps protect you against cancer: A diet rich in fruit and vegetables will also help to protect you against cancer. The World Health Organisation estimates that 50% of all of the avoidable forms of cancer in the western world occur as a result of a poor diet and any of those cancers can be avoided by eating more fruit and vegetables.

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