10 Ways to Add More Veggies to Your Diet

You don't have to be a vegetarian to benefit from eating more vegetables. Here are 10 ways to improve your diet.

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Research substantiates the claim that populations who consume plant-based diets have less chronic disease, such as hardening of the arteries, heart disease, some cancers, diabetes, and obesity, says Anne VanBeber, PhD, RD, a nutrition professor at Texas Christian University. In addition, plants contain vital health-promoting compounds in the form of pigments, phytochemicals, and antioxidants that reduce the onset of disease.

I'm not suggesting that everyone become a vegetarian; however, we all could benefit from eating more vegetables. So here are 10 ways to increase the veggies in your diet.

1. Join Something

Look into a Community Supported Agriculture program (CSA) where you support a local farm and get shares of the produce. Or look for an organic buying club.

 

Or try one of the following:

 
Next:  Grow It

 

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Comments ( 3 )
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mariaestrada485 wrote:

Joining a farm club.Who has time for that? I will say go to a Farmers Market or Flea Market and buy them at a good price.

2/25/2010 08:49:12 PM Report Abuse
gmartineau wrote:

whole story of adding vegertable super-unhelpful; the obvious combined with the expensive and the impractical

2/25/2010 02:51:09 PM Report Abuse
lmo200 wrote:

Not anything new.

2/25/2010 12:09:04 PM Report Abuse

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