2 Ways to Have More Vegetables in Your Diet

One of the hardest things about raw food is not quite green, and sweet fruit. They do not have as much flavor as the sweet fruit and often require a little more to chew as well. For the "novice" raw foodist, healthy raw vegetables can taste bland, really!

To help increase the health of vegetables in your diet, here are two super simple and delicious recipes for raw materials.

# 1: Green Smoothies

The main reason people have trouble eating their vegetables is quite obvious ... It is difficult to chew 1-2 pounds of green in a single session * *! Not only can this take some time, it is really annoying in the jaw. An excellent way to fight against it is to eat / drink green smoothies. A green liquid is a liquid green fruit was added. Fairly simple, right?

The easiest way to make a green smoothie simply add your favorite fruit to your favorite liquid. If you do not have a favorite liquid, here is a simple recipe to try.

* M.P.R. Smoothie *

* 4-5 mangoes
* 3 peach half
* 10 small leaves of romaine lettuce
* 1-2 cups water

Mixture.

With all the different fruits and vegetables available, the possibilities are endless. You can even try adding herbs such as mint lightly or parsley to their smoothies. How about a strawberry-banana liquid mint? Ooooohhh, now I'm hungry. :)

# 2: raw pasta

Another reason is difficult to find people to eat their vegetables and sweet fruits that are not bored with the typical large salad. They want something new and different.

Give way to raw "pasta"! I know this sounds complicated, fat and unhealthy all around (all that I am against), but I promise you it is not.

Pulp of vegetables is only spiralized! You simply take a sweet fruit like zucchini or cucumber and run it through a spiral vegetable slicer. Then a chip "sauce" of fruits and vegetables and viola. Now you have the raw dough!

Here is a quick, easy and delicious pasta gross to begin.

* Marina-Alla gross *

* Zucchini 2 medium-large
* 1 liter of cherry tomatoes
* 1 mango
* Basil, to taste

Spiralize zucchini. Gently pulse the tomatoes and mangoes in a blender and poured over the pasta. "You can reserve a portion of diced tomatoes and mango as a garnish, if desired.

If you do not have a vegetable spiralizer, you can use a vegetable peeler or mandolin to gross fettuccine. "Try to cut as thin as possible so as to resemble noodles.

I bought my spiralizer for about $ 30 at amazon.com and it works fine. There are many brands and models to choose from.

You can even add fat to the pasta of your own. Make a sauce with the solicitor or guacamole type nuts sprinkled on a raw tomato sauce. Make sure that you use to remove any fat sweetened fruit on your plate.

You have! Two delicious and healthy ways to increase your consumption of vegetables.

Fruits and Vegetables Dietary Facts

According to experts, the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables are five servings for children, seven servings for women and nine servings for men. If you're like most people you probably never reach your goal on a daily basis. And, if you're like most of us, your fruits and vegetables did not come from an organic source; so, it's possible that the fruits and vegetables (if you happened to eat them) may have been lacking in nutritional value.

Most nutritionists will agree that staying on top of our nutrient reserve is important. Since our bodies make millions of new cells every day: heart cells, brain cells, bone and blood cells, it's important to replace a cell every time a cell dies. Again, experts say, if we don't have the right amount of nutrients to construct a new cell we will either make an incomplete cell or none at all. In either case, the outcome is bad. So in all reality, we need to keep all nutrients on board at all times. This is I, and many nutritionists suggest a multiple vitamin and mineral supplement.

So, what are Supplements: According to Dr. Brazos Minshew, Chief Science Officer of TriVita, he says, "The word supplement means in addition to something - to make up for a deficiency. Vitamin and mineral supplements should be taken in addition to a healthy diet. They make up for the deficiency we face due to the poor nutrient density in our foods. Supplements also help out when our diet is less than perfect."

He goes on to say, "the simplest way to help support your nutrition is to take a general multi-vitamin and mineral supplement that provides a broad range of nutrients at standard nutritional levels. However, please keep the following points in mind:
Some supplements contain very high doses of certain nutrients. When you take nutrients in extremely high doses, you are no longer in the world of nutritional supplementation and have passed into the riskier world of megadose treatment."

Calcium and magnesium minerals are very bulky, and few multi-vitamin/mineral supplements provide the daily requirement. These minerals generally must be taken in the form of additional pills. Note: It isn't possible for your body to absorb a day's worth of calcium in a single dose. At least two doses are necessary.

The most common nutritional deficiencies are calcium, chromium, folgate, magnesium, vitamin b6, vitamin c, vitamin b12, vitamin d, vitamin e, and zinc.

Continuing, Dr. Minshew says, "very few of us are so deficient in these nutrients as to show symptoms of outright malnutrition. However, subtle deficiencies may increase the risk of a number of conditions. For example, insufficient intake of calcium and Vitamin D may increase your chances of developing osteoporosis, and inadequate folate and Vitamin B-6 may speed the development of heart disease."

We know that food contains many substances other than vitamins and minerals that may enhance your health.

Dr. Minshew concludes by saying, "supplements won't make up for bad dietary choices. We simply must commit ourselves to eating more fruits and vegetables. Still, the reality of life is that we don't always attend to our diet perfectly. So, appropriate nutrient supplementation can help make up for the deficiency we face because of poor nutrient density in our foods and an imperfect diet."