Why are Vegetables so beneficial to health?
As well as vitamins and minerals, vegetables also contain many complex plant components. Some of these are also antioxidants, destroying free radicals in the body. And as we’ve all heard, free radicals are thought to have a role in the development of cancer so if eating vegetables helps to destroy them then that is very beneficial to your health! Do you need to eat low carb vegetables if you take vitamins? Apparently the benefits of vegetables and fruits come from the combination of the components that the food is made up of. Dietary supplements containing vitamins and minerals do not appear to have the same results as eating the low carb vegetables themselves. In some studies the supplements have caused more harm then good. I’m not recommending that you toss out your supplements but don’t use them as a substitute for getting your RDA of low carb vegetables. How many low carb vegetables should I eat a day? Current recommendations are that you should include 3 to 5 servings of vegetable
