Natural Vegetable Goodness

Celery, leeks, turnip, and potatoes in the process of brewing.

The end product.

Celery:

1. Eating celery will reduce high blood pressure and give the effect of calmness.
2. Celery clears uric acid from painful joints and may help the treatment of arthritis and rheumatic problems.
3. Celery also helps the kidney an acts an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant.
4. Another benefit of celery is the fact that you can eat a lot of it without thinking much about your waistline. Celery actually has almost zero calorie.

Leek:

1. A good source of dietary fiber, leeks also contain goodly amounts of folic acid, calcium, potassium, and vitamin C.
2. Easier to digest than standard onions, leeks have laxative, antiseptic, diuretic, and anti-arthritic properties.

Turnip:

1. Good physique and no excess fat because of low calories.
2. High quantity of Vitamin C and anti-oxidants help curb free radicals and destructive oxidation reactions.
3. Lowers the risk of obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and cancers of the stomach, pancreas, bladder, and lung diseases.
4. Prevents and heals up a wide range of health problems because of high nutrient content.
5. Very rich source of calcium, phosphor, folic acid and magnesium, essential for all-round development of human body.
6. Helps prevent cataracts and cardiovascular disease due to large amount of lutein.

Potatoes:

1. Rich in vitamin C, the B-complex vitamins, and have good doses of the minerals iron, calcium, manganese, magnesium and phosphorus.
2. Besides being an economical and nutritious food source, potatoes also have medicinal properties. A potato tuber is antispasmodic, mild anodyne, digestive remedy, diuretic, and emollient.
3. A potato is good for stomach ulcer, duodenum ulcer and stomach acidity.

Learnt this from my mil.
A very light, tasty and healthy dish that's very rich in fibre and vitamins.
W eats this since he was a baby.
Like the rest of the French babies.

There's a reason why I don't see a lot of fat French, and why 1/3 of the American population is obese. Genetic plays an important role, but I think diet is as important or even more important because we are what we eat. Even the pregnant ladies I saw only have their bellies growing throughout their pregnancy, the rest of their bodies are so slim! No signs of bloating whatsoever.

School children here are rarely overweight, lest to say obese. I don't see many of them wearing spectacles like us back in Singapore too.

Apart from their smoking and drinking habits, shouldn't there be something we can learn from the lifestyle of French?