FIVE A DAY

You are what you eat and so a healthy lifestyle makes the best of you! Deciding as to what to eat for keeping the taste buds happy is a good idea unless your health is not being compromised. A vast variety of delicious fruits and vegetables produced by the nature makes it sure that you don’t have to compromise in either way, if you are to follow healthy lifestyles.

Vegetables and fruits consists of the essential vitamins, fibers, photochemical, folate, vitamins and minerals that makes your body functions smooth. Five times intake of fruits and vegetables a day is important to make the digestion easy in five portions rather than a bulk all at once. This way the gut needs not to work hard on digestion. Being an excellent source of dietary fiber, fruits and vegetable encourage the peristalsis movement of the intestine that removes the toxins from the body, promoting digestion and doing away with the problems related to constipation.

Researches have recommended a minimum of 400g of fruits and vegetables a day as a healthy intake. Low fats and calories makes fruits and vegetables reduce the risk of strokes, heart diseases, blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and cancer to a greater extent keeping in notice that they haven’t been cooked in a lot of oil. Lower fats and calories make sure that the risk of gaining weight or obesity is far from reach.

Additionally, five intakes a day means that a combination of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables having different nutrition, minerals, fiber and vitamins would be consumed by the body ensuring the fulfillment of all a healthy body requirements. However, please note that ‘5 A day’ emphasis is on getting five 80g portions of fruit and vegetables every day and it shouldn’t be confused with having them alone separately but five portions of each altogether in order to achieve healthy results.

There is no restriction as to which fruits and vegetables should be counted in for a ‘5 A DAY’ diet routine. However, potatoes, yam, plaintain and cassava are exceptions in a sense that they mainly contribute starch to the diet. Apart from the Fresh fruits and vegetables, fruits that are frozen, tinned/ canned, dried and even those that have been cooked in dishes contain in them all the essential nutrition, that doesn’t get wasted in any way. Though beans and pulses are also a part of the 5 A Day diet plan, one thing to be noted is that it counts as one portion a day as it contains fewer nutrients compared to other fruits and vegetables. So no matter how much is your intake, it will still be counted as one.

So are you ready for a fruity and juicy diet plan for your own good? All this plan requires is maintaining a good habit of thinking and acting good for your own self J Stay Healthy!

By KANZA BATOOL HAIDER

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