Diet For Pregnant Women

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• Diet For Pregnant Women

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Diet For Pregnant Women
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Add Lettuce To Your Diet For 6 Healthy Reasons

• Lettuce is the common ingredient in the salads,
  sandwiches and burgers that adds greatly to the
  taste of these foods.
• This vegetable is quite famous and is one of the
  most widely used raw vegetables because of its
  innumerable health benefits.
• This green leafy vegetable scores high on taste,
  nutrition as well as its health proportion.
• Here are the top six reasons to include lettuce
  in your diet system.

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• It controls the blood pressure
• Like all other green leafy vegetables, lettuce is
  also rich in magnesium, potassium and fibre. It
  is because of the presence of these minerals that
  this raw vegetable helps to maintain the blood
  pressure levels within the normal range.
• It improves sperm motility
• Lettuce is loaded with the beta-carotene, an
  antioxidant that plays a key role in production
  of healthy sperm along with improving the sperm
  motility. Add some lettuce leaves to your daily
  dietary intake and enhance your sexual health.
• It is great for weight loss
• Lettuce is known to be perfect food for the
  weight loss as it contains high levels of dietary
  fibre, 95 percent of water and cellulose. The
  presence of fibre fills the stomach and makes you
  eat less, thereby helping in the weight loss
  process.

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• It is great for weight loss
• Lettuce is known to be perfect food for the
  weight loss as it contains high levels of dietary
  fibre, 95 percent of water and cellulose.
• The presence of fibre fills the stomach and makes
  you eat less, thereby helping in the weight loss
  process.
• It lowers the blood cholesterol levels
• The high amount of dietary fibre in lettuce plays
  an important role in the removal of bile salts
  from the body. In the process of eradicating
  these bile salts, there is a breakdown of
  cholesterol.
• As a result, the blood cholesterol levels drop,
  which in turn protects your heart health.

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• It is good for pregnant women
• In case you are pregnant, include lettuce as a
  part of your regular diet as it contains the wide
  range of nutrients that are crucial to protection
  of your baby from inherited defects. This leafy
  green vegetable is the great source of folate and
  calcium in addition to various important
  micronutrients like manganese and iron.
• It helps to relieve stress
• It is found that lettuce possesses amazing
  relaxing properties that help to lower stress
  levels in the body. Add a few leaves of this raw
  vegetable to your diet or use it in raw salads to
  fight stress naturally.

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• It acts as the digestive aid
• The high fibre and water content in the lettuce
  helps with the normal digestion of food. This
  leafy vegetable is also believed to help provide
  relief to people suffering from bloating and
  constipation, by easing the process of digestion
  and aiding the passage of food through the
  intestinal tract.
• Lettuce has been called the perfect weight loss
  food and rabbit food, but it is so much more.
  With amazing healing benefits and calories
  comprised of 20 percent protein, it could be
  called gorilla food instead.
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