Everyone must have experienced being forced to eat vegetables during their childhood days. As a child, it is quiet difficult to understand the reason behind the importance of eating vegetables often. But, as a grown-up, one learns that the body needs a great amount of nutrients to support its vital functioning and these nutrients are mainly obtained from the food that is being eaten. Since vegetables have the most nutrient content among the many substances available for eating it is the best source for the components that are needed by the body. The lack of these said nutrients may have various detrimental effects on the body which mainly are different kinds of diseases or health problems. For example, when Calcium nutrient is insufficient in a person’s body the resulting illness involves one’s bones, where Calcium is a much needed component. To be able to respond to this need, substances rich in Calcium such as milk must be consumed in great amount.
It is not just as simple as that, however. Sometimes, situations get too complicated that it is not easy anymore to determine what nutrients a person is missing. When a person’s immune system in general is...