Most of us dont eat vegetables in the right quantity in our everyday life.According Indian customs,to eat a lot of rice,vegetables are included in small quantity to adjust the taste.This is very bad.Even though the vegetables offer us less protein(To grow muscles) and fat(for body heat),they are rich in salts,minerals and vitamins.Thats why the vegetables have to be consumed in large quantities and rice in a lesser quantity.
Try a different vegetable everyday.Best is to buy fresh vegetables everyday.There should be a mixture of atleast 3-4 vegetables and greens in every day diet.While cooking,cutting the vegetables and leaving them dry is very bad.The best process is to cut the vegetables while cooking,side by side.In today's circumstances,where we eat something and rush to office,its really impossible to do all the above.To compensate the time,what our people do is,to cut all the vegetables required in the previous night itself.Where will all the minerals and vitamins be,for the next day's cooking.Those cut vegetables will just be used to fill the stomach.It wont add any nutritional value at all to the food.The same way,the water which is used for boiling the vegetables are usually drained off.What are we draining?We are draining all the salts and minerals which were in the vegetables.Best advice is to use the water in the cooking process.Use right quantity of water during cooking,so we dont waste neither water nor the nutritional values of vegetables.
Each and everyother vegetable has a different composition of minerals and salts.Each of these vegetables will help keeping us away from so many diseases.Vegetables have nutritional content far better than the pulses,grams,rice and wheat.So make sure we eat more of vegetables and less of rice and other things.
Try a different vegetable everyday.Best is to buy fresh vegetables everyday.There should be a mixture of atleast 3-4 vegetables and greens in every day diet.While cooking,cutting the vegetables and leaving them dry is very bad.The best process is to cut the vegetables while cooking,side by side.In today's circumstances,where we eat something and rush to office,its really impossible to do all the above.To compensate the time,what our people do is,to cut all the vegetables required in the previous night itself.Where will all the minerals and vitamins be,for the next day's cooking.Those cut vegetables will just be used to fill the stomach.It wont add any nutritional value at all to the food.The same way,the water which is used for boiling the vegetables are usually drained off.What are we draining?We are draining all the salts and minerals which were in the vegetables.Best advice is to use the water in the cooking process.Use right quantity of water during cooking,so we dont waste neither water nor the nutritional values of vegetables.
Each and everyother vegetable has a different composition of minerals and salts.Each of these vegetables will help keeping us away from so many diseases.Vegetables have nutritional content far better than the pulses,grams,rice and wheat.So make sure we eat more of vegetables and less of rice and other things.
