Health Benefits of Vegetables

People who eat fruit and vegetables as part of their daily diet have a reduced risk of many chronic
diseases. USDA's My Plate encourages making half your plate fruits and vegetables.

Vegetables are important part of healthy eating and provide a source of many nutrients, including
potassium, fiber, folate (folic acid) and vitamins A, E and C. Options like broccoli, spinach, tomatoes and
garlic provide additional benefits, making them a super food!

Potassium may help to maintain healthy blood pressure. Dietary fiber from vegetables helps reduce blood
cholesterol levels and may lower risk of heart disease.

Folate (folic acid) helps the body form healthy red blood cells. Women of childbearing age who
may become pregnant and those in the first trimester of pregnancy need adequate folate to reduce the
risk of neural tube defects and spinal bifida during fetal development.

Eating Vegetables Provides Health Benefits

§ The nutrients in vegetables are vital for health and maintenance of your body.
§ Eating a diet rich in vegetables may reduce risk for stroke, cancer, heart diseases and type-2
diabetes.

One to four cups of vegetables are recommended each day, depending on how many calories you need.
To find out how many vegetables you need to eat, use the Healthy Eating Planner

1. What does the word “your” refer to? (Paragraph 1) The reader
2. What is the synonym of “adequate”? (Paragraph 3) Suffice
3. What word has the closest meaning to reduced? (Paragraph 1) decrease
4. What vegetables are called super food? Because they are a good source of many
nutrients, including potassium, fiber, folate (folic acid) and vitamins A, E and C.
5. Can you mention the benefits of dietary fiber from vegetables? The nutrients in
vegetables are vital for health and maintenance of your body. And eating a diet rich in
vegetables may reduce risk for stroke, cancer, heart diseases and type-2 diabetes.

FAST FOOD

Fast food nowadays is considered a normal eating venture. People are not just eating out on
special occasions or weekends anymore. It means that all the time they mostly eat fast foods. However
is fast food good for health?

Fast food has its popularity in the 1940’s. Within a few years, fast-food operations popped up
everywhere. With the compelling rise in fast-food restaurants since the 1940’s, oddly it started the rise
in obesity and cancer during that same time period.
 Fast food is highly processed with a wide array of additives. To ensure fast food’s low cost, the
fast food products are made with highly-processed ingredients to give it shelf-life, to hold consistency,
and to enhance flavor. Fast food is altered from its original healthy form.

It is not the calories in fast food which damage health and waistline. It is the chemical additives
such as aspartame and MSG (monosodium glutamate). Studies show that the chemical additives lead to
weight and disease issues.

So, there is absolutely nothing nutritional about fast food. Fast food simply feeds hunger and
craving.

6. What is the relationship between fast food and obesity or cancer? Fast food make their
eater got obesity and cancer because of MSG( Monosodium glutamate) to enchane their
flavour
7. The synonym of oddly is (Par. 2) Strangely
8. What do studies show about chemical additives? Chemical additives lead to make
weight and disease issue
9. Can you figure out the different points of view between Indonesians and Americans
about fast food? What are they? Fast food in America is a daily meal, neither in
Indonesia, fast food is a food that rarely consumed.
10. What is the other word of altered? (Par. 3) same

Nama : Muhammad Rafi Putra Susanto

Kelas : XI MIPA 3

Absen : 23