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Dietary fiber is the part of food that is neither digested nor absorbed by our bodies because we lack the enzymes needed for digestion.

Fiber is a complex mixture of substances of different nature such as cellulose, hemicellulose, pectins, gums, mucilages, alginates, resistant starch and lignin, among others.

It remains paradoxical that fiber, a substance that has been underrated for years now occupies a prominent place in our diet.

However, the results of numerous scientific studies demonstrate its indisputable role in the regulation of intestinal function and are essential in any healthy balanced diet.

Know that there are foods that can ease the pain of course, also are useful to reduce inflammation. In addition to the popular painkillers, which often end up irritating your stomach, there are other products in your kitchen that can relieve you.

- The extra virgin olive oil contains oleocanthal, which is a natural anti-inflammatory that has effects similar to ibuprofen. If you eat it with potatoes, pasta salads and feel the results.

- Cottage cheese, rich in amino acids that work to reduce the damage and muscle pains after exercise. If you mix with fruit such as blackberries, walnuts and a tablespoon of honey maple, as well as delicious is nutritious, not fattening and you get well.

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You are not eating green vegetables, you should immediately change his bad habits it. Imagine, a green vegetable has many benefits, among them to reduce the risk of diabetes, especially women. Green vegetables, can even maintain normal levels of blood fats.

According to professor in the field of nutrition, all kinds of green vegetables contain many vitamins, minerals, and fiber for the body’s metabolic functions.

You need to know that in the body there are three processes that occur is burning (power), construction (growth), and settings. To get the energy, the body needs carbohydrate, fats, and proteins.

To be able to grow flowers and water needed protein. To manage this process so that all happen to have vitamins and minerals derived from vegetables and fruits. “That is, why vegetables are important for the body, because there are certain substances which can only be obtained through the vegetable,”

many ingredients contained in green leaf vegetables. “Green leaf vegetables that are rich in vitamin B complex. It also contains the mineral nutrients essential for metabolism in the body,”

Therefore, do not let your body lack of green vegetables. “a lot of green vegetables contain vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Well, if you do not eat green vegetables, there will be disruption in the indigestion, lack of vitamin B complex, deficiency of vitamin C and D, and iron deficiency, and others, ”

He recommends that you should increase the consumption of green leafy vegetables or a regular and sufficient. “Leafy greens can maintain normal levels of blood fats,”

There are over 2,500 different species of wild mushrooms known on earth. The attached report focuses on the nutritional composition and health of the most familiar type : the mushroom (Agaricus bisporus).

Agaricus bisporus is the world’s most cultivated mushrooms by about 38% of the total production. Mushrooms are part of the fruit and vegetable package is deemed necessary in the 5-per-day program. These people think of a portion of 80 grams of mushrooms.

Mushrooms, mushrooms and more particularly, share some of the benefits of fruit and vegetables, such as low calorie and virtually free of fat and salt.

Mushrooms are a good source of fiber and are rich in vitamins and minerals. They contain a remarkably large amount of vitamin B and potassium.  In the Eastern world, mushrooms traditionally been part of the diet and are valued for their medicinal properties.

Recently, also from our Western scientific world is increasing evidence that mushrooms possess medicinal properties and they can play a role in preventing serious diseases.