Eating a well-balanced diet can help you sustain a healthy lifestyle. A healthy diet can also support weight reduction, weight maintenance, and it can decrease the risk of some diseases.
Here are some interesting facts about healthy food and nutrients
- Almonds are member of the peach family.
- Banana is not a fruit, it is a herb.
- Coffee beans are fruit pits.
- Peanuts are actually legumes.
- Ancient carrots were purple.
- Apples are part of the rose family.
- Strawberries have more vitamin C than the oranges.
- Broccoli, sardines and almonds are high in calcium.
- Zinc is important for wound healing, fertility, building the immune system (amongst other things) and is found mainly in animal products.
- Avocados are poisonous to birds.
- Tomatoes were thought to be poisonous.
- The water from the young coconut can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
- One can of soda contains 10 teaspoons of sugar.
- Canola oil is actually a man made oil.
- For the past 30 years, the number of overweight teenagers and overweight children has been consistently increasing in the 1st word countries. This is a very worrying fact!
- Hundreds of deaths per year are caused by poor nutrition and a lack of physical activity.
- It takes 20 minutes for your brain to know that your stomach is full.
Did you know that
- Goat's milk is more popular around the world than cow's milk.
- A hard boiled egg will spin, a soft boiled egg won't.
- When Popeye became popular, the consumption of spinach increased.
- Rice is the main food for half of the world's population.
- The average American or Canadian will eat almost 12 pounds of cereal per year.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1930′s as medicine.
- The average French eats 500 snails per year.
- Watermelons cost up to $100 in Japan.
- Coke was first sold as a drug claiming to cure headaches and fatigue.
