Monday, June 20, 2011

Green Leafy Vegetables - A Healthy Option


Compromising on one’s health can have serious repercussions. In today’s fast world, one finds every single human being trying and compromising on their health by providing various excuses like busy schedules, traveling, long working hours, etc etc. But these excuses are not helpful at all, as no matter what the reason be the harm is indirectly done.Such lifestyle does serious damage to our body. Addition to this bad eating also has its own implications.

Whatever the reason be, one can’t play with his life. Our body needs to be very very strong to fight up all the stress that they get to. But then, this is possible only when one tries to eat a rich, balanced diet which provides all the required nourishment to the body.
Green leafy vegetables are really good and help in improving body metabolism. Including them in our daily diet does help a lot. Green vegetables are really healthy and if consumed in a raw form do help and provide maximum benefits to our body. If vegetables are overcooked, for say, leafy vegetables, all the nutrients present inside them are destroyed and they provide zero nutritional value to our body.

 It is advisable to consume these vegetables, especially leafy vegetables in their raw form to get all the benefits in-stored in them. But one needs to take proper precautions with respect to cleaning of these leafy vegetables. If not cleaned properly, they can lead to various health complications. Thus it is very important to wash them properly, before eating. It is advisable to soak them in salt water for few minutes before washing. This helps in killing of all the unwanted bacteria or any other worms present inside these vegetables.

 Leafy vegetables can be included in our daily salads, so as to eat them in their raw form. Apart from that if added in smoothies, they taste really good. Green smoothies are a healthy option and can be made part of our daily diet.  Green leafy vegetables have a low GI Index and can do wonders to our body if allowed to be in our daily diet. They provide all the benefits that a body may require to live up with our constant busy schedule.

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