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- People who eat more fruit as part of a healthy diet are less likely to develop diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer, and they provide your body with all the nutrients it needs to fight other infections and repair cells, too.
- This is “Food Pyramid”. Obviously, fruit group sitting in a important role for human body.
- Questions.
- Why are they important?Fruit and vegetables of differing colours contain diverse mixtures of phytonutrients (protective plant compounds). These can act as powerful antioxidants, protecting the body from harmful free radicals and helping to protect against certain chronic diseases such as cancer. Some fruit and vegetables are labelled as 'superfoods' because they contain high concentrations of some phytonutrients, particularly antioxidants, which appear to be beneficial to health.
- Boiled or steamed?Although fruit and vegetables are packed with vitamins and minerals, many of these essential nutrients can be easily destroyed by heat when cooking and during food preparation. Water-soluble vitamins are especially vulnerable when boiled. One solution is to eat raw vegetables as much as possible, such as raw carrot, celery or peppers.
- Fibre for weight control?Fruit and vegetables are important contributors to the intake of dietary fibre, both soluble and insoluble. Fibre is slowly digested and has a low Glycaemic Index (GI). This means glucose will be released steadily into the body over several hours, allowing you to feel fuller for longer, compared with high GI foods that produce a rapid rise followed by a subsequent fall in blood sugar, often leaving you hungry soon after you've eaten. This feeling of fullness produced by the fibre within fruit and vegetables can therefore help with weight control.
- Percentage below recommended minimum number of servings of vegetables and fruit, by age group and sex, household population aged 4 or older.
- Health benefits of eating five portions of fruit a day.
- Percentage of persons who eat five or more servings of fruit and vegetables per day.
- How much is a portion?
- Work cited form…
Slideshow Transcript
- Slide 1: It is no secret that eating fruit is good for you and has plenty of health benefits – but what are they?
- Slide 3: Why are they important? Boiled or steamed? Fibre for weight control?
- Slide 4: Antioxida nts & Phy --benefici tonutrien al to heal ts th
- Slide 5: Raw fr uit & v -- as m egetab uch as les possib le
- Slide 6: Fibre -- weig ht con trol
- Slide 8: List of the health benefits of eating five portions of fruit a day. --reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases -- reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes -- reduced risk of developing certain cancers -- reduced risk of developing coronary heart disease -- reduced risk of developing kidney stones & osteoporosis.
- Slide 9: Percentage of persons who eat five or more servings of fruit and vegetables per day.
- Slide 10: How much is a portion? • One piece of medium-sized fruit, such as an apple, peach, banana or orange • One slice of fruit, such as melon, mango or pineapple • One handful of grapes or two handfuls of cherries or berry fruits • One tablespoon of dried fruit • A glass (roughly 100ml) of fruit or vegetable juice • A small tin (roughly 200g) of fruit • 3 tablespoons of fruit salad or stewed fruit
- Slide 11: Work cited from • Fotosearch, Oct 7 2008, www.fotosearch.com • Centenary Archers, Oct 7 2008, www.centenaryarchers.gil.com.au/ • Recipes4us, Oct 7 2008, www.recipes4us.co.uk/ • Statistic Canada, Oct 7 2008, www.statcan.ca/start.html • Kango, Oct 7 2008, prosperforyou.com/oxidant.html
