Why You Should Eat Your Vegetables: Reminders of Health Benefits
- Meagan Fuller
- Jun 16, 2024
- 2 min read
June 17 is National Eat Your Vegetables Day! Vegetables are part of a healthy diet. According to myplate.gov, women ages 19-60+ should have 2-3 cups of vegetables a day. You can eat vegetables cooked, raw or even made into juice. Along with being able to eat vegetables in many ways, they offer numerous benefits to your health and your body!
Benefits of Eating Vegetables
Vegetables contain a lot of nutrients such as vitamin A and C, potassium, fiber, and calcium.
Vegetables help with reducing the risk of certain types of cancers and heart disease, as well as lowering blood pressure.
Many vegetables can help improve mental health.
Potassium, which is in a lot of vegetables, helps with regulating blood pressure.
Fiber is in a lot of vegetables and can help with reducing the risk of heart disease, relieving constipation, and improving digestion.
Iron in vegetables helps to keep your blood healthy.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, iron also helps prevent anemia.
All vegetables have most of these benefits. Here are some vegetables women should think about including in their diet:
Kale
Kale has a lot of vitamins K, A and C. Vitamin A helps the eyes and skin. The best way to eat this vegetable is raw as it keeps most of its nutrients this way.
Spinach
Spinach contains a lot of nutrients like vitamin C, iron and potassium. Spinach can be eaten cooked or raw.
Chickpeas
Chickpeas are said to help lower the risk of breast cancer.
Asparagus
Asparagus is high in fiber, iron and vitamins A and C. Asparagus can help pregnant women decrease the chance of birth defects.
Mushrooms
Mushrooms have a lot of nutrients and can even help with weight management and preventing diseases like cancer.
All vegetables offer many nutritional benefits and these and many other vegetables should be part of everyone’s diet. So, try some and see how you enjoy them!
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Hello, my name is Meagan. I am currently a senior at Belhaven University. I am majoring in Theatre and minoring in Creative Writing. I am happy to join Her Nexx Chapter as a volunteer. This journey will allow me to work with a diverse group of women. My academic journey is rooted in storytelling. Therefore, I am excited for this opportunity to write about various topics for women to help them grow. In my free time, I enjoy listening to music, writing fiction that focuses on empowering women, reading, developing my acting skills and yoga. My short stories, plays and poems appear in several publications (Pleiades Literary Magazine, Write for Mississippi, Belhaven University’s The Brogue). Oh, by the way, I am a cat lover.
