Reasons For Why You Should Eat Fruits and Vegetables

When people are forming their daily diet habits, they usually favor meats, proteins and carbohydrates. Furthermore, our modern style of living also pressures us into eating lots of fast foods and deep fried or micro waved foods. However, all of this takes a toll in our bodies and most people end up with various diseases such as Type II Diabetes, Hypertension, Kidney Failure and various other illnesses caused by the weakening of the immune system.

Hence, you should change your daily eating habits, so that you can become more healthier and fitter. This means that you should incorporate more servings of fruits and vegetables into your daily diet. Physicians recommend that 3 to 6 servings of vegetables and fruits should be included in your daily meals.

Most importantly dark green vegetables and dark colored fruits (such as blueberries, strawberries etc) contain flavonoids which are important substances that help our bodies to protect against various forms of cancer. One such reason for this is because of the fact that human bodies are engineered inherently to be vegetarians as meat eating was not apparent until well after the Ice Age. Until that time human beings lived as gatherers versus living as hunters which became apparent after the Ice Age.

Vegetables and fruits also contain important nutrients and anti oxidants that are very important to the functioning of your body's immune system. These antioxidants and nutrients include such items like Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium and Zinc.

Eating of fruits and vegetables are also important due to the fact that they allow your body's hunger process to be sated more faster compared to eating proteins and fats. Also compared to other forms of food, vegetables and fruits also contain fiber which is beneficial to your body and this also allows them to be absorbed more slowly in to your blood stream.