Tuesday, 3 June 2014

How lettuce- patta salada is beneficial for our health and beauty

Lettuce is a leafy green vegetable which is less known to the populace. It is known to Indian people in the name of salad patta. As the name itself is giving the clue that lettuce is used more in salads. Besides it is also used in soups, wraps and sandwiches due its extraordinary health and skin care benefits.
 Proteins

Lettuce consists nearly 20 percent of proteins which acts like building blocks for the body development. These proteins help for the major metabolic reactions in the body, and also needed for the formation of the muscles.
 Less sugar
Very similar to artificial flavors, artificial sugars also retain your body in the harmful state when it is consumed in the excess amounts. As lettuce is having less sugar amounts one need not to bother about to eat high amounts of it.
 Iron
Eating lettuce leaves is a good way to regulate iron quantity in our body. For the blood hemoglobin and also to treat many heart related problems iron is key. Prefer romaine variety lettuce to get high amounts of iron compared to iceberg variety, romaine offers nearly 4 times more iron than iceberg.
Vitamin K
Romaine lettuce helps to offer rich quantity of vitamin K, it have three times more vitamin K amount than in the normal iceberg lettuce type. This vitamin is vital for the functioning of the body, especially pregnant women have more advantages, with the help of the vitamin K neural defects during pregnancy can be discarded.
Vitamin C
There are many health benefits of getting vitamin C. Antioxidants of vitamin C helps to combat with free radical molecules and they also aid to treat unwanted reactions that promote for certain kind of diseases, even cancers also.
Weight loss
Lettuce is a beneficial for the health with its right proportion of nutrients and low amount of fat content and calories. Hence it has become a weight loss veggie and is suitable for the people who are under the program of weight loss.
Omega-3 fatty acids
For the maintenance of the good health one must need the fatty acids omega-3 and omega-6, which are available perfectly in lettuce. It consists two portions of omega-3 and one portion of omega-6.
In addition to many health benefits lettuce is all set with many skin care benefits
Vitamin A
Lettuce with its rich source of vitamin A offers you 100% of daily required vitamin quantity just from six lettuce leaves. This vitamin is known to responsible for the increase of the cell count which in turn aids for the skin revitalization.
Potassium
To tune your skin glowing and healthy, potassium is one everyone is in need of. Get the potassium amount by adding lettuce in your diet. Infact potassium is helpful for the nutrition and oxygen supply, the process that helps for the improvement of the circulation in the body.
Vitamin E and C
The combination of vitamin E and C have been linked with the skin health and betterment. Vitamin C helps to prevent the aging factors where as vitamin E protects the skin from harmful UV rays emerging from sun and it also reduces macular degeneration and cataracts.

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