Color-your way to daily health

It is important that we have lots of different fruits and vegetables to every day food. Diet rich in fruit and vegetables can reduce the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases. Fruits and vegetables provide essential vitamins and minerals, fiber and other materials, that are important for good health. Most fruits and vegetables are naturally low in fat and calories and fill.

You have probably heard about the 5 A day for better health program. It offers easy ways to the Add patterns for more fruits and vegetables into your daily diet. It is important that we red, green, white and blue/violet every day eat a variety of colorful orange/yellow, vegetables and fruit. The consumption of vegetables and fruit from each color group, you benefit from the essential vitamins, minerals and fiber, which provides each color group alone and in combination.

There are several different but simple way to start integration of vegetables and fruits in your well-known and popular meals. Start your day with 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice, slice bananas or strawberries on your cereal or have a salad with lunch and an Apple for an afternoon snack. Include a vegetable with dinner and you already about 5 cups of fruits and vegetables. You can even try adding fruit for a snack or an extra vegetable at dinner.

Afraid you not try to improve something new, the vegetable and fruit intake. There are so many options in the selection of fruit and vegetables. Kiwifruit, asparagus and mango can be your new favorite. Keep fresh and interesting by the combination of fruit and vegetables of different flavours and colours, such as red grapes with pineapple chunks, or cucumbers and peppers.

Fruit and vegetables keep Angewöhnen visible and easily accessible - you will tend to eat more. Store cut and cleaned produce at eye level in the refrigerator or retains a big colorful bowl of fruit on the table.