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Tips to help you eat vegetables

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Vegetables are rich with important nutrition including vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and fiber that may help you to stay healthy. Studies have shown that people who eat more vegetables are more unlikely to have risk of critical disease such as stroke, heart diseases and certain cancers. In addition, vegetables are low in fat and calories. By replacing vegetables for higher-calorie foods can be part of a great weight loss plan.

Although there are numerous benefits of vegetables but it still one of those foods many people hate. For those who hate vegetables, keep on reading. You'll find useful tips to help you eat vegetables.

It's too bad to lose the taste or the habit to eat vegetables because there are many ways to can stand in for them. Try these tips to fit more fruits and vegetables into your day:


1) Choose Vegetables of Different Colors

Colors make things look good and exciting. To get a healthy variety, there are various colors of vegetables available such as green, white, red, yellow, orange, blue, purple and green. Each vegetables color presents different nutrients. When you include vegetables of different colors in your diet, you are most possibly having whole nutrition. For more choice, try different vegetables combination everyday.


2) Increase Vegetables in Your Diet

Try filling half your plate with vegetables at each meal. Serving up salads, stir fry, or other vegetable-rich fare makes it easier to reach this goal.
Buy more vegetable when shopping. Purchase precut or prepared vegetables to decrease the work. Supply your refrigerator, freezer and pantry with chunky or sweet vegetables like baby carrots, tomatoes and cucumber. You can get some of these vegetables at snack time.


3) Grow Your Own Vegetables

Try growing some small container plants like cherry tomatoes or peppers. Just pick a few plants to grow and be sure to water them every couple of days. After growing a vegetable for weeks to months, you will be excited to get to pick it yourself and eat it.


4) Keep Vegetables Where You Can See It

Store up vegetables in a clear container at eye level in the refrigerator. You'll see it first and eat.


5) Choose Easy and Healthy Preparation Methods

Use a microwave oven to shorten your time for baked potatoes or frozen vegetables. You can easily steam vegetables in the microwave in just a few minutes.


6) Make Delicious Vegetables Recipe

Try some new recipes where vegetables take center stage, such as Vegetable and Tofu Kebab Recipe and Mixed Peppers Recipe. You can also eat vegetables raw with dip as part of your meal or as a snack. Great vegetables to use are carrots, peppers, cucumbers, green beans, and fennel.

7 DON'Ts immediately after meal

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DON'T ACT THE 7 ACTIONS BELOW AFTER YOU HAVE A MEAL:

1) Don't smoke- Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher).


2) Don't eat fruits immediately - Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1hr before meal.



3) Don't drink tea - Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid. This substance will cause the Protein content in the food we consume to be hardened thus difficult to digest.


4) Don't loosen your belt - Loosening the belt after a meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted & blocked.

5) Don't bathe - Bathing after meal will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in our stomach.

6) Don't walk about - People always say that after a meal walk a hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we intake.

7) Don't sleep immediately - The food we intake will not be able to digest properly. Thus will lead to gastric & infection in our intestine.