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Healthy Vegetables
Healthy Vegetables
Enrich your diet with healthy vegetables. These are just some of the health benefits of a diet rich in vegetables: lower blood pressure; reduced risk of stroke, heart disease and some cancers.

Vitamins and minerals are required for the regulation of the body's metabolic functions. Vegetables are rich in vitamins and minerals. Therefore, adding the vegetables below to your diet can drastically improve your health.

Garlic

German researchers have found that garlic is packed with antioxidants known to help fend off cancer, heart disease, all-over aging, and prolong cancer survival time. Let crushed garlic "rest" for about 10 minutes before cooking to preserve disease-fighting agents.

Spinach

Second among vegetables only to garlic in antioxidant capacity and is also rich in folic acid, which helps fight cancer, heart disease and mental disorders. New University of Kentucky research shows folic acid may help prevent Alzheimer's disease. Eat both raw and steamed for best benefit.

Onions

Onions are yet another vegetable bursting with nutritious qualities. There are antioxidants in onions that help your body to reduce the damaging effects of free radicals. Onions also are great for reducing inflammation, as well as having anti-tumor qualities.