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Fresh Fruits And Vegetables Retain Antioxidants

Mihai Andrei by Mihai Andrei
February 20, 2013
in Home science, Studies
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Fruits and vegetables are very important for your health and “Eat your fruits and vegetables” is one most used recommendations for a healthy diet – and for good reason. They help you ward off heart disease and stroke, control blood pressure and cholesterol, prevent some types of cancer, avoid a painful intestinal ailment called diverticulitis, and guard against cataract and macular degeneration – the benefits are numerous, pretty much too numerous to name them here. But how much do fruits retain their antioxidant content and how much fruit should you eat are facts less known – one could argue that fruits also contain sweets, and too much sweets is definitely not good..

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The average American gets a total of just three servings of fruits and vegetables a day. The latest dietary guidelines call for five to thirteen servings of fruits and vegetables a day, depending on one’s caloric intake. In recent years scientists have made a solid base of science to back up. The largest and longest study to date which was made by Harvard-based Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study, included almost 110,000 men and women whose health and dietary habits were followed for 14 years. The higher the average daily intake of fruits and vegetables, the lower the chances of developing cardiovascular disease. Eating more fruits and vegetables can also help lower cholesterol. In the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Family Heart Study, the 4466 subjects consumed on average a shade over 3 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. You could talk about the benefits they bring for days; but what you should learn is that you should try to eat more fruits and vegetables and a variety of different fruits and vegetables.

Belgian scientists report that fruits and vegetables retain the antioxidant content in the days after purchase, even as tell-tale signs of spoilage appear. In some cases, antioxidant levels actually rise. The results showed that, in the days following purchase, fruits and vegetables retain their antioxidant content.

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Andrei's background is in geophysics, and he's been fascinated by it ever since he was a child. Feeling that there is a gap between scientists and the general audience, he started ZME Science -- and the results are what you see today.

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