Health Protective Effects Of Plant Foods

People have been advised to enrich their diets more with plant foods. Organizations with interest centered on health for instance the World Health Organization (WHO) raised study groups on diet, nutrition and the prevention of communicable diseases and they came out with a recommendation that humans eat not less than 400gms (14ozs) of fruits and vegetables as well as 30gms (10ozs) of nuts and seeds daily.

Advantages of such a diet are numerous e.g. such diets would be very rich in a variety of phytochemicals which help to stop cancer coupled with other benefits. Also some non-nutritive substances found in plants help in a great way to protect human health.

Nuts, vegetables, fruits, coupled with whole grains have phenolic compounds i.e. tarpenoids, pigments and other natural antioxidants e.g. (vit A, B, C) in large proportions and these help to prevent and cure diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases and cancer. Another great benefit of fruits and vegetables is that they posses little amount of fat, saturated fat and cholesterol, calories and sodium and at the same time have high amount of folic acid, potassium, vitamin C and fiber.

Health Protective Effecs of Plants

A) Of all studies recently carried out by dietary experts, about eighty-two percent point to the fact that consuming vegetables and fats helped to greatly reduce cases of cancer and death resulting from cancer by fifty percent. Such cancers most effectively combated by diets rich in fruits and vegetables are cancers that originate from the epithelial cells e.g. Cancer of the cervix, lung, stomach, colon and esophagus. Also cancers related to hormone were observed to be reduced by fruits and vegetables.

B) Breast cancer was equally found to be greatly reduced and this was a result from a study that involved about 2400 Greek women. Women with high consumption of vegetables e.g. 5 servings per day showed a forty six percentage reduction in their predisposition to breast cancer when compared to the ones with lesser consumption of this while those with highest intake of fruits (about 6 servings per day) showed seventy six percent reduction in breast cancer risks.

C) Plant based diets rich in phytochemicals combat arteriosclerosis. Nevertheless it has been discovered that people are not yet taking enough of these plant diets despite all the enumerated benefits. This was very evident in the result of a study that revealed that just 1 out of every 11 Americans met the daily recommendation of 3 servings of vegetables and not less than 2 servings of fruits every day.

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