Eat Raw Vegetables to stay Healthy | Fusion - WeRIndia

Everyone eats vegetables cooked in some form. Whether it is boiling, baking or frying everyone has their own preference. But can you imagine the health benefits of adding raw vegetables to your diet? This is because, when we cook vegetables we tend to change their composition and it can alter or reduce the health benefits.

Eating vegetables raw makes sure that we get the vitamins, minerals and other essential material in their natural state.

Cooking generally tends to destroy or reduce the nutritional value. When you eat vegetables raw, you get all the nutritional value in them and this gives you energy fast.

Another disadvantage from health point of view while eating cooked vegetables is that we tend to add a lot of ingredients for the sake of taste. Even though they add taste, they are not good for health and might cause problems for your body.

However, when you eat raw vegetables, they have their own natural flavor.

This does not cause any problems to body as they are natural and our body can easily take them.

Eating raw also has the benefit of not needing much preparation of vegetables to eat. This saves a lot of time. It also saves any time required to clean up after eating as there is no need of dishes to be used.

Raw vegetables also reduce and even revert heart diseases and other chronic diseases. Raw vegetables help in boosting the immune system of body which makes it easier to fight against several disease causing pathogens. This will create a healthy body.

Now that you have seen the health benefits of eating raw vegetables over cooked vegetables. Add raw vegetables to your diet and slowly reduce cooked food.

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