Gotta love those green leaves !!

HEALTH BENEFITS OF GREEN LEAVE VEGETABLES

Green leave vegetables are very nutritious and easily available throughout the year, most of us neglect this particular food group but it sure does have a lot in store for us when it comes to health. For instance it is rich in lot of vitamins and minerals. It is very low in calorie, it gives good amounts of fiber and it also has small amount of Omega 3 fatty acids. Especially when we talk about dark green leafy vegetables these are a super rich source of beta carotenes.

Beta carotene is very good anti oxidant; it helps us to fight against the disease, increases our immunity and also helps in proper eye vision. Apart from this, beta carotene also helps to improve skin tone and gives us beautiful looking skin. Beta Carotene has good amounts of folate in the form of folic acids, so folates correct the anemia persons suffering from folic acid deficiency tend to have anemia so that can be corrected. For pregnant ladies this will be supplemented with good amounts of folic acids. Usually we require 150 micro grams of folic acids but a pregnant lady would require at around 500 micro grams. This particular physiology group of pregnancy is in high demands of green leafy vegetables so try to give them more leafy vegetables.

Apart from Beta carotene and folic acids green leafy vegetables have good amount of vitamin C especially when you consume them as raw form. All we need to do is wash them clean and chop them into small pieces and add it to raita or whipped curd. You can even add it into any salad or soup so as to get a good amount of vitamin C while it is still  fresh.

Green leafy vegetables are very rich source of soluble and insoluble fibers. We try to discard the stems and stalks of green leafy vegetables and tend to use only the leaves but there are good amount of calcium in stalk of spinach and iron content in the mint stems rather than mint leaves. We need understand stalks or tender stems are more nutritious then the leaves, so before consuming we need to wash them thoroughly in running water.

It releases you from constipation, it keeps your sugar under control also binds with the body fats and these fats will be removed in the stools of the body.