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If you're on diet or practicing the vegetarian style, you must consider these also. Make sure you include each of these nutrients in your meals...
- Protein: Soy products like tofu, nuts, and seeds; legumes such as lentils, dried beans or peas; or meat substitutions. Lacto- ovovegetarian and lacto-vegetarians can get protein from eggs and cheese
- Calcium: Dark vegetables like broccoli and spinach, or select calcium- enriched soymilk, tofu, or juices.
- Vitamin B-12: Lacto-ovovegetarian and lacto-vegetarians can get B-12 from milk, eggs, or cheese. For vegans, try fortified soy supplements, enriched cereals, or supplements.
- Iron: Enriched cereals and whole-grain products, spinach, and prunes. Your body will absorb even more iron if you eat it with foods high in vitamin C, like oranges and strawberries.
- Zinc: Whole grains, wheat germ soy products, nuts.
Are you health conscious? Then, do you know how important fibers in your daily intake? What really dietary **fiber is? Now, let us all read this:
According to wikipedia: Dietary fibers are the indigestible portion of plant foods that move food through the digestive system, absorbing water and making defecation easier. Dietary fiber consists of non-starch polysaccharides such as cellulose and many other plant components such as dextrins, inulin, lignin, waxes, chitins, pectins, beta-glucans and oligosaccharides.
Fiber is really important, as it is the part of the food that cannot be broken down by the enzymes in the digestive tract. Fiber passes through without being absorbed. It also have intestinal cleansing action, which keeps the digestive tract clean.
Benefits:
A diet rich in fiber is
protective against a wide variety of diseases, including heart disease, cancer
of the colon and rectum, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, phlebitis and obesity.
Try this dietary fiber Apple Pectin/Pectin.
What is Apple Pectin? (See
picture at the bottom) It is classified as a soluble fiber. It has a
gel-forming effect when mixed with a lot of water. Well, some fruits like
apples as I’ve mentioned, peaches, plums are all rich in Pectin.
Apple pectin acts as antioxidant and if your meal consists of fatty foods, apple pectin is good for you. Apple pectin is also used to remove unwanted metals and toxins.
**food sources of fiber include whole wheat, bran, fresh or dried fruits, and vegetables
