What are the benefits of eating vegetables to the human body?

There are many kinds of vegetables, which can usually provide various vitamins, dietary fiber, pectin and trace elements, such as potassium, calcium and magnesium, which can promote the healthy growth of human body to a certain extent. Vegetables are indispensable in daily diet. Eating more vegetables not only supplements human nutrition, but also has certain benefits such as improving intestinal function, helping to lose weight and lowering blood pressure. However, we should pay attention to the reasonable collocation with other foods, such as meat and coarse grains, in order to get twice the result with half the effort.

1, improve intestinal function: vegetables are rich in dietary fiber, which is beneficial to stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, improve intestinal function to some extent, promote defecation, and help to improve mild constipation;

2, help to lose weight: all kinds of vegetables are rich in vitamin C, dietary fiber and pectin, which helps to excrete excess cholesterol and metabolic waste in the body and can play a certain role in lowering blood fat. In addition, vegetables are mostly low-energy and low-fat foods, mainly water. After eating more vegetables, you can not only feel full, but also stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis and accelerate oil excretion, thus achieving the effect of helping to lose weight, but generally you need to cooperate with reasonable exercise;

3. Auxiliary blood pressure reduction: the content of sodium salt in vegetables is less, and even if you eat more, it will generally not cause excessive accumulation of sodium salt. Eating more vegetables will generally reduce the intake of other foods, and the body will excrete a certain amount of sodium salt every day, so the level of sodium salt in the body may decrease during this process, which is conducive to assisting blood pressure reduction. However, vegetables can not replace drugs to lower blood pressure, so it is suggested to adopt formal treatment methods;

4, other benefits: such as reducing the incidence of cardiovascular diseases, the principle is similar to lipid-lowering. It can also improve vision and prevent dry eye and night blindness. It can also promote myocardial activity, assist in lowering blood sugar, make people full of energy and make the skin more elastic.