What are the health benefits of vegetables?
Well!
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Vegetables, like fruits, are
low in fat but
contain good amounts of vitamins and minerals. All the
Green-Yellow-orange vegetables are rich sources of calcium, magnesium,
potassium, iron, beta-carotene, vitamin B-complex, vitamin-C, vitamin
A,
and vitamin K.
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As in fruits, vegetables
are also home for many
antioxidants
that; firstly,
help body protect from oxidant stress, diseases and cancers, and secondly,
help body
develop capacity to fight against these by boosting immunity.
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In
addition, vegetables
contain soluble as well
as
insoluble dietary fiber known as non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) like
cellulose, gums, mucilage, pectin...etc, that absorb excess water in
the
colon and retain good amount of moisture in the fecal matter, thereby
helps its easy passage out of the body. Thus helpful in conditions like
hemorrhoids, chronic constipation, rectal fissures...etc.
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