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Inevitably, fruits offer a myriad of health benefits for the body. Routinely eating fruit every day can keep you from various diseases and health problems, make your body more fit, to help you control your weight. Therefore, it is not surprising if the Indonesian Ministry of Health through its Balanced Nutrition Guidelines warned the public to increase fruit consumption in order to support a healthy lifestyle. The World Health Organization also agrees with this recommendation, suggesting that everyone eat at least 400 grams of fruit and vegetables every day.
Benefits of eating fruit for health
A healthy diet is to increase eating fresh vegetables and fruits, while balancing other staple foods. Here are some examples of the benefits of eating fruit for health:
- Sources of simple sugars, fiber, vitamins and minerals. Examples are folate, vitamin C, and potassium.
- Low fat and calories
- Fiber in fruit is useful for helping to lower blood cholesterol and can help promote bowel movements, so you avoid constipation and reduce the risk of colon cancer.
- Fruit is also rich antioxidant, such as flavonoids, vitamin C, and anthocyanins. Antioxidants can protect the body from free radicals that come from inside the body and from outside the body, thus helping you avoid diseases, such as cancer.
- Fruit can help protect body cells from damage and can also help rejuvenate cells and tissues in the body, thus helping prevent you from aging.
Therefore, eating fruit regularly every day can make the body more fit and keep you from the risk of various diseases and serious health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, to stroke, thanks to the abundant nutritional and nutritional content.
Regularly eating fruit is also considered a good way to lose weight, because fruit fiber can make you full longer so you will eat less in a day.
Want to eat more fruit? Here's how
If you are the type of person who rarely eats fruit, you are not alone. That is why we have summarized a variety of accurate but fun tips below so you can snack on fresh fruit every day.
- For starters, you can try it first by multiplying your favorite fruit stock.
- Place fruits and vegetables on a table or in a place that is easy and often seen by you. The more often seen, the more likely you are to eat the fruits.
- Try new fruit. Next time you go to the fruit kiosk or market, choose a different fruit from yesterday.Choose colorful fruit so you enjoy seeing and eating it.
- Mix fruits (and vegetables) into your favorite foods. For example, mix bananas or strawberries into your yogurt or breakfast cereal, or add slices of strawberries or blueberries into a pancake mixture or as a topping
- If you are tired of eating fruit directly, you can start creating it. You can eat fruit by juicing or popsicle (fruit sorbet). You can also mix rujak with homemade peanut sauce. Remember, whatever fruit you make, don't add sugar excessively.
- If you are tired of snacking on fresh fruit, try canned or frozen fruit. These packaging fruits still have the same benefits as fresh fruit. But remember, pay attention to the sugar content.
- Don't hesitate to choose dried fruit. Dried fruits such as raisins, dates, apricots, peaches and dried plums still have high fiber. This drying will reduce the water content in the fruit which actually increases the proportion of vitamins and nutrients.
With so much fruit benefits that can be obtained by the body, let's go, don't hesitate to eat fruit from now on. There is no best time to eat fruit. You can consume it at any time: morning, afternoon, evening, before or after meals, also before and after exercise. Your body will benefit from your new hobby. But remember, the benefits of fruit are best if it is directly eaten in its full form while still fresh.
