Health Benefits of Leafy Vegetables

Leafy greens or leafy vegetables belong to the family of plants, which comes under the category of vegetables.  

Leafy greens also contain soluble and insoluble fibers, which help to lose weight as fibers are the foods that go for digestion in the last and make us feel full even taken in little amounts. 

Doctors recommend to take leafy greens at least twice in a week to get the essential supplements needed by our body.   Let us see the benefits of leafy greens.

1. Leafy greens help in reducing the bad cholesterol present in our blood and thereby promotes good blood pressure rate.

2. Intake of leafy greens regularly would help maintain good blood sugar level without any ups and down.

3. As leafy greens are rich in fiber, they help in reducing the risk of heart diseases and type-2 diabetes by strengthening the cardiovascular system.

4. Leafy greens along with being good for body and health, they are also good for hair and skin.  The water content, vitamins, minerals present in leafy greens help in maintaining good hydrating levels of the skin.

5. Few leafy greens are also rich in calcium, which help in building strong teeth and bones and also reduces the risk of osteoporosis.

6. Leafy greens promote good functioning of muscles.

7. Leafy greens are rich source of antioxidants like vitamin C, lutein, and zeaxanthin, which help in reducing the risk of occurrence of cataracts and macular degeneration.

8. The beta-carotene present in leafy greens helps in promoting growth of body tissues and also protects skin from any skin damage.

9. Leafy greens can also help in reducing the problem of memory loss.

Olive leaves

Olive leaves have many health and medicinal benefits in them. They have anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, antibiotic, and antioxidant properties in them.  You can make use of olive leaves in powdered form, liquid, tea, or capsule to treat many health issues.

1. Olive leaves are very good for skin as they act ass skin moisturizer.

2. Because of its moisturizing properties, it helps to treat dry skin.  Olive oil along with honey and egg yolk can be used as a face mask to get rid of dry skin.

3. As it has antioxidant properties, it will help in treating the sun damaged skin. 

4. It acts as a good skin massaging agent.  It helps in increasing the elasticity of the skin.

5. Olive can also be used to treat many hair problems like dry hair, scalp, dandruff etc.  Massaging the scalp with olive oil at least once in a week can help you get rid of hair problems.

6. Olive oil contains vitamin E, which helps in nourishing the skin.  It makes the skin soft, smooth, and wrinkle free.

Radish leaves

1. Radish leaves are rich in vitamins and minerals and are very much needed supplements for our body.

2. Radish leaves helps to get rid of the problem of constipation.  Radish leaves are rich source of dietary fibers, which help in good digestion and thus reduce the risk of constipation.

3. Regular intake of radish leaves would help in increasing the hemoglobin levels in the body and also helps in reducing the tiredness and fatigue of the body.

4. Radish juice helps in treatment of bladder stones and makes the urine passage easy.

5. Radish leaves powder mixed with sugar can help you treat piles.

Carrot leaves

Carrot leaves can be used to treat headaches.  You can make juice out of carrot leaves.  Just apply some ghee onto the leaves and heat them.  Press them by placing them in between your palms and take juice out of it.  Apply this juice into your nostrils that helps in promoting sneeze and thereby reduces headache.

Aloe Vera leaves

Aloe Vera has many benefits.  The leaves of aloe vera can also be used to treat symptoms of asthma.  Just steam aloe vera leaves and take that stem to get rid of asthma problems.

These are lot more leafy greens like papaya leaves, garlic leaves, onion leaves, mustard leaves, methi leaves, guava leaves, tulsi leaves, neem leaves, mango leaves, bale leaves, pomegranate leaves, orange leaves, pear leaves, bitter gourd leaves, grapes leaves, jackfruit leaves, etc. 

All these leafy greens have almost same type of health benefits.  They offer health benefits in loads.  Eating them regularly would help us treat many of our diseases and disorders while sitting at our homes itself.  So try to include leafy greens in your diet at least twice in a week.