PLANT NUTRIENTS
Eat all the colours, not just your greens.

Eating more fruit and vegetables, and the plant nutrients they supply, is one of the most important steps you can take to help protect yourself against heart disease, cancer and several other illnesses.

Most of us should eat more fruit and vegetables.

Many people eat processed foods which have lost a lot of their nutrient content, as a result, they do not eat the recommended intake of many vital nutrients, although the recommended levels may be too low to keep you in the best of health.

Did you know that The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of vitamins and minerals is the minimum level required to avoid deficiency? It does not guarantee you are consuming enough to help protect your health.

A colourful selection of fresh fruit and vegetables

Plants make sugars, proteins and fats to fuel themselves. We can eat the plants and use their fuel as calories to fuel ourselves.

Plants also make groups of chemicals to enable themselves to function, when we eat these chemicals along with the plants they can have a tremendous effect on our bodies by acting as antioxidants in our own cells, producing health benefits for us.

The colours of fruit and vegetables are linked to the chemical groups they contain, so it is best to eat as wide a variety as possible to get a wide variety of these beneficial chemicals.

Everyone is recommended to eat five to seven portions of fruit and vegetables each day to keep up a steady supply of plant nutrients. We do this by having two or three portions of fruit as snacks throughout the day and filling our plates up with steamed vegetables during our evening meal.

As mentioned a couple of times on earlier pages, present day food has lost some of its nutritional value due to changes in the way it is handled and treated. Fruit and vegetables do not escape these changes. For most of us, gone are the days when food was picked from the garden or local fields and eaten almost immediately, we now have an unbelievable variety of food supplied from all over the world. Unfortunately during the time the produce is stored, shipped and then further distributed its nutritional value is being depleted.

This is where the Herbalife core nutrition products come into their own. One Formula 1 shake per day and the Formula 2 multivitamin complex make sure you are achieving good levels of vitamins, minerals and micronutrients. At the same time it is enabling you to easily maintain your appropriate weight.