Fruits and vegetables are the great source of nutrients, and so help you having better health. Including fresh fruits and vegies in your diet makes you active and full of energy on one hand and reduces the risks of many different diseases and conditions. Here’s a quick overview of the nutritional value of Apple, Bananas and Cabbage.

Apple: Being the protector of your heart, Apple plays vital role in maintaining better health. It prevents constipation, blocks diarrhea, improves lung capacity, and cushions joints.

Banana: It helps protecting your heart, quiets a cough, strengthens your bones, controls blood pressure and levels it too, it also helps in blocking diarrhea.

Cabbage: A great food to combats cancer, also prevents constipation, helps to promote weight loss, and protects your heart from those diseases which may result in heart attack, cabbage also helps hemorroids.

Orange has some nutritional contents, that help us in many different ways, i.e.

1. Betacarotene, a powerful antioxidant that protects our cells from being damaged.
2. Calcium that helps protecting and maintaining the health of our bone and teeth.
3. Folic Acid for proper brain development.
4. Magnesium to maintain blood pressure.
5. Potassium to maintain electrolyte balance in the cells, and a healthy cardiovascular system.
6. Thiamin that helps to convert food into energy.
7. Vitamin B6 that helps support the production of hemoglobin that carries oxygen to all parts of the body.

The nutritive values per 100 gm are as follows:

1. Vitamin A : 190 I.U.
2. Vitamin B : Thiamine .08 mg.
3. Vitamin C : 49 mg.
4. Calcium : 33 mg.
5. Phosphorus : 23 mg.
6. Potassium : 300 mg.

Being so rich in nutrition, Orange is Beneficial in the following cases :

1. Asthma
2. Bronchitis
3. Tuberculosis
4. Pneumonia
5. Rheumatism
6. Prevent kidney stone
7. Helps lower cholesterol
8. Helps prevent diabetes
9. Arthritis
10. High blood pressure
11. Persons addicted to alcohol have found that the desire for liquor is greatly reduced by drinking of orange juice.
12. Consumption of large quantities of oranges will decrease the outpouring of mucus secretions from the nose.

You must remember the famous slogan, “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away”. It’s not just to remember, because you can’t simply keep the doctor away if you don’t practice on it. If you’re having cholesterol problem, you must practice this slogan, because, it really helps maintaining cholesterol level in your body.

How apples do this is very simple. Apple contains a very good amount of soluble fiber, as well as insoluble fiber. Insoluble fiber is one that can not be absorbed and goes right through you. This insoluble fiber helps with digestion. On the other hand, the soluble fiber is the one that gets absorbed, and picks up the LDL (bad) cholesterol from blood stream for removal from your body.

Authors and poets associate heart with feelings and many other thinking processes, but the core function is to provide clean blood to the body, which can be highly interrupted if you don’t really care for your heart. Eating junks and oils damage your heart for sure.

On the other hand, vegetables and fruits help you maintain a good heart health. Blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and or other berries you like best are great for your heart health. These berries are full of anti-inflammatory agents, which reduce your risk of heart disease and cancer.