Many types of vegetables prevent serious diseases; improve skin tone and human performance. In fresh vegetables high in potassium and low in sodium, which promotes the removal of fluid from the body, improves the functioning of the heart. Vegetables contain substances that inhibit the conversion of carbohydrates into fat, as well as volatile, enzymes, organic acids, vitamins, without which there can evolve normally the human body.
Thus, in spinach, green onions, parsley, carrots contain carotene, from which the human body is formed vitamin A, which stimulates growth, increases resistance to many diseases. Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, reduces fatigue, speeds recovery, wound healing. It is listed in the dill, parsley, celery, green onions, tomatoes, lettuce, sorrel, cabbage and Brussels sprouts, radish.
Vitamin B (thiamine), normalizes the nervous system, protects people from fatigue, improves performance, and increases appetite. It is found in spinach, lettuce, peas, asparagus, onions and other vegetables. In these same vegetables are vitamin B2 ( riboflavin), warning of disease of the mucous membrane of eyes and mouth, as well as the nervous system. Niacin (PP), which is present in lettuce, spinach and other vegetables, stimulates normal liver function, prevents skin diseases, stomach and intestines.
In spinach, cauliflower, iceberg lettuce has vitamin K, normalizes blood clotting. In fresh green vegetables many substances that promote blood formation and maintaining normal blood composition. This is especially folic acid, which along with vitamin B2 prevents anemia and has anti sclerotic action. Juice from the leaves of spinach, beet tops of the complexes contains alkaline salts of affecting hematopoietic.
The biological activity of fresh green vegetables in large measure due to the presence of vitamins. E (tocopherol), which stimulates and supports the normal functioning of all, "the muscles of the body. The same vitamin promotes normal reproduction, healthier cells. Vitamin E is found in peas, cabbage, green onions, carrots, cabbage head lettuce, parsley and celery leaves.
In the greens quite a lot of substance anti sclerotic - choline. In cabbage, for example, it is 3 times higher than in fish and meat.
Fiber vegetables promote excretion of cholesterol. Particularly rich in fiber beets, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, green peas. With inflammatory bowel disease using vegetables with less fiber - lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes and fresh juices.
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