Tuesday 23 June 2015

Seafood: A Smart Choice to Live Healthy   

by Mohit Jaiswal

Eating good and healthy food is important because only eating food is not enough it should be healthy also. Healthy food gives all nutrients in good amount. Through healthy food we get various essential minerals such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins etc. These minerals are helpful for the development of body and mind. A healthy food not only provides essential nutrients to the body but also manages the body-weight, cholesterol level etc.
Here are some of the tips for healthy food-
1. We should have low-fat, low-sugar snacks whether we are at home, at work, or on the go. Healthy snacks may help to tackle hunger and stop overeating.
2. We should eat a mixture of colourful vegetables each day. We should choose dark leafy greens such as spinach, mustard greens and many more.
3. We should eat fresh fruits and use fats and oil sparingly.
4. Meat and chicken are very good source of vitamins and proteins, so they should be present in our diet.
Seafood is also a healthy food item that one should consider in their balanced diet. With the changing time seafood is even recommended by many government bodies, in order to remain fit and healthy. So it's time for seafood lovers that they can even involve these food stuffs in their regular diet, if they want to remain healthy and fit.
Since seafood covers a lot of varieties like aquatic plants and animals, that are quite beneficial for humans. Seafood has so many advantages because it is full of minerals, salt iodine, vitamins etc. In some cases even doctors recommend their patients to eat seafood because of its vitamins, proteins, and minerals which are essential for proper functioning of brain, nerves, eyes and heart.

Salt present in seafood can be very effective in stabilising the irregular heartbeats and opposes the misconception that it causes high blood pressure. Sometimes doctors suggest sea salt bath therapy. It is an effective treatment which helps in the rejuvenation of the cells. It also provides a healthy exchange of minerals and toxins between the water and the blood. Seafood contains minerals like calcium, phosphorus, iron etc. which are helpful in growth of brain and body. So, seafood is so essential and beneficial for humans.
Seafood contains a fatty acid named omega-3 which is very helpful in processing of food for energy. They are important for the proper functioning of the brain, eyes and nerves and it also reduces the risk of coronary heart disease. The benefits of seafood are what that make seafood quite beneficial and is even accepted by the whole world.

1 comment:

  1. Fish is a food of excellent nutritional value, providing high quality protein and a wide variety of vitamins and minerals, vitamins A and D, phosphorus, magnesium, selenium, and iodine in marine fish. Its protein is easily digestible. Fish oils in fatty fish are the richest source of a type of fat including omega 3 fatty acids that is vital to normal brain development and fundamental for the healthy functioning of the body. The high fat content it contains a range of fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K).

    ReplyDelete