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5 Great Reasons To Start Growing Your Own Fruit And Vegetables

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A lot of people would like to start growing their own vegetables but often think that it is difficult and time consuming.  The truth is although you might need to spend a large amount of time setting things up at the beginning, the daily maintenance of your crop really doesn’t take too long.  You also don’t need a lot of space to be able to do it.  You could use a local allotment or a small raised garden bed and still get an abundance of great tasting organic vegetables.  There are a whole range of different benefits to growing our own vegetables and here are five of the best. 

To Keep Healthy – Everyone knows that they should eat five portions of fruit and vegetables each day to have a healthier lifestyle.  You will often find that people who grow their own vegetables will tend to eat more of them, more often.  Not only this but spending time in the garden preparing the soil and maintaining everything you are growing is good exercise. 

Save Money At The Supermarket – When you are able to harvest your own vegetables you will notice that you will save considerable amounts of money on your weekly food shopping.  Supermarkets tend to have special offers on packs of carrots and other veg, which often means you buy more than you need.  This means that you tend to be left with a lot of unused vegetables that get thrown away, with your own vegetables you just use what you need so you don’t end up wasting money.  

For The Fresh Organic Taste – Nothing tastes better than eating fresh, organic vegetables.  Before vegetables in a shop or supermarket make it to the shelves they have had to of been picked, gathered and transported.  This means that a lot of that truly fresh organic flavour is lost during this process.  

To Avoid The Use Of Unknown Pesticides – It is hard for any company to guarantee that no pesticides or other chemicals have been used on the plants and soil the vegetables are grown in.  These sorts of pesticides are often harmless to us and protect crops from disease and pests but many people don’t like the idea of them being used.  You can control what you put on your crops to make sure you know exactly what you are getting. 

To Encourage Your Children To Eat More Healthy – It can often be a struggle to get children to eat things that are good for them.  It is a great idea to get your children involved in growing fruit and vegetables as it helps them learn and also will get them more motivated to try the different things they have helped to grow.  This is a great way to help promote healthy eating in your children from a young age.

Exercise Plan Using A Women’s Bike

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In the past few years many commentators have discussed the ancient dietway of eating and kinds of exercise, they state that our bodies have not changed in all that time . So in order to stay fit we should mimic the way of life of our predecessors ten thousand years ago. This was a time before man had domesticated animals, wheat, rice or any of our stable crops.Cave men would dine on the dead and rotting remains of animals,gather wild plants, fruit, berries and nuts, or kill small animals and birds.

Fishing or gathering shellfish, supplemented this sorry existence, of constantly looking for food. Their lifestyle consisted of looking for food with the occasional burst of action using high energy levels. Hunting, fighting, and fleeing are good examples of high energy activities. Nature was truly red in tooth and claw. Our predecessors had a hard time, but we aim to replicate some of their life style on a ladies bike!

So it would seem that our caveman bodies are best adapted to a sedentary life styleway of life with stints of low energy and high energy exercise. The way we eat should avoid starchy processed food stuffs such as bread, biscuits and rice. we should eat more low fat meat and natural foods like nuts, fruit and vegetables.

So what have we learned and how can it be used in our usual routines on our womens bikes. Well you don’t have to work out all day or run marathons to keep in good health. A good level of activity mixed with infrequent full out power exercise is enough to keep the heart pumping and lungs squeezing. Follow the dietary advice and you will lose fat. You can include this kind of thinking on your womens bikes by using them as often as you can. Get out there as much as possible but try to mimic prehistoric behaviour by cruising along for a while but then really go for it for a few mins. Rinse and repeat enough to raise your heart rate but not enough to make you exhausted. Make sure the full on part of the ride is safe and you have all you need for a health life style. Research has show that doing this only three times a week can radically improve the cardio-vascular health of the participant.