Intake of Green leafy vegetables makes healthy

Hyderabad, December 21: Intake of Green leafy vegetables, beetroots, carrots, cucumber etc are good for health and also maintains a proper diet.

Green leafy vegetables must be taken in huge quantity, it reduces the fatty liver disease

Overweight and high alcohol consumption causes a common liver disease called Fatty liver or liver steatosis

The food which we take contains fat and is accumulated in the liver. Green leafy vegetables help to prevent fat accumulation.
"When we supplemented with dietary nitrate to mice fed with a high-fat and sugar Western diet, we noticed a significantly lower proportion of fat in the liver," said Mattias Carlstrom, Associate Professor from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

"No one has yet focused on nitrate, which we think is the key. We now want to conduct clinical studies to investigate the therapeutic value of nitrate supplementation to reduce the risk of liver steatosis," Carlstrom said.

According to sources Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has published that a higher intake of fruit and vegetables has a beneficial effect on cardiovascular function and on diabetes.

Leafy vegetables and fruits also led to a reduction of high blood pressure and improved insulin and glucose homeostasis in mice with Type-2 diabetes.
Not yet a treatment has been approved for the fatty liver disease, which can decay into horrible conditions which are life threatening such as cirrhosis or liver cancer.

The results may lead to the development of new pharmacological treatments and nutritional approaches.