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Seven Reasons to Include Zucchini in Your Diet

9/5/2013

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All vegetables are considerably healthy- they will work based on your needs. If you want to lose weight, but does not want to starve yourself or sacrifice the delicious taste your tongue enjoys, zucchini is the best vegetable for you.

There’s no reason to break your diet and gain weight if you really want to eat. Zucchini is known to have very little calorie content, less than 25 calorie content to be exact. You won’t be sacrificing your body needs because it’s high in protein and fiber. Eating this vegetable will keep you full without gaining weight, and will help you utilize the vitamins and minerals of other foods you eat.

An effective diet includes giving your body enough water. Eating processed foods will leave your body thirsty. Eating this green vegetable will give you the hydrating benefits that you need. It’s abundant in water, that cooking won’t even affect the benefits.

Folate brings good benefits to pregnant women. Folate is responsible for the brain development of the baby. There will be no negative side effects because zucchini offers a lot of natural and beneficial nutrients. It has potassium that is necessary for bone development and absorption of other minerals from the food you eat. Eating this vegetable promotes a healthy, and balance diet.

Good eyesight and skin is essential, most especially to young children. This green vegetable has beta-carotene that is essential for the formation and absorption of Vitamin A for proper utilization and benefits. It has manganese that helps the body absorb and utilize carbohydrates and proteins. This particular nutrient is proven to help relieve stress. 

Talking about good skin and healthy immune system, zucchini is abundant in antioxidant. It has more antioxidant compared to other plants and vegetables. It helps fight heart diseases, cancer, and other illnesses that humans get from their daily routines and activities. Vitamin C will strengthen the natural healing power of the body, and will prevent scurvy characterized by bleeding gums. Because it provides manganese, the body will easily renew damage skin cells, thus promotes quick healing. 

Another discovery about this vegetable is that it helps stimulate sex life. Eating a cup of raw or cooked zucchini will cover 19 percent of the body’s manganese requirement. This nutrient is proven to improve the body’s sex hormone production.

Eating zucchini accompanied with proper diet and exercise is proven to improve a person’s total health and wellness.  


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