The Health Benefits of Fruit and Vegetable

             "Eat your fruits and vegetables" is one of the tried and true recommendations for a healthy diet. And for good reason. Eating plenty of vegetables and fruits can help you ward off heart disease and stroke, control blood pressure, prevent some types of cancer, avoid a painful intestinal ailment called diverticulitis, and guard against cataract and macular degeneration.

             Individuals who ate more than 5 servings of fruits and vegetables per had roughly a 20 percent lower risk of coronary heart disease and stroke, compared with individuals who ate less than 3 servings per day. men and women whose health and dietary habits were followed for 14 years. The higher the average daily intake of fruits and vegetables, the lower the chances of developing cardiovascular disease. Compared with those in the lowest category of fruit and vegetable intake
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           The nutritional value of the fruits and vegetables eaten depends upon how they have been grown, stored and shipped. The whole subject of the beneficial effects of these foods, as you see, is a subject in and of itself.  So it is important to try and eat fruits and vegetables in as many different colours as possible to benefit from the protective effects of the nutrients that they contain.