What is the function of vegetables?

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.

First, improve intestinal function: vegetables are rich in dietary fiber, which is conducive to stimulating gastrointestinal peristalsis, improving intestinal function to a certain extent, promoting defecation, and helping to improve mild constipation;

Second, it helps to lose weight: various vegetables are rich in vitamin C, dietary fiber and pectin, which can help to excrete excess cholesterol and metabolic waste in the body and have a certain lipid-lowering effect. 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;

Third, auxiliary blood pressure reduction: the sodium content in vegetables is less, even if you eat more, it will generally not cause excessive accumulation of sodium. 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;

Fourth, 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.