5 Signs You’re Not Eating Enough Vegetables

It is believed that the more colours you have on your plate, the more nutritious your meal is. Your diet should have all the colours like reds from tomatoes, greens from leafy vegetables, browns from grains and yellows and oranges from fruits.

All vegetables contain nutrients which are necessary to fulfill the requirements of our body. Whenever we cut down the intake of vegetables in our diet, the body starts showing some signs due to the lack of nutrients. Here are some that you should look out for:

1. Bleeding gums and bruising 

One of the major reasons for bleeding gums is improper oral hygiene. However, another common reason for bleeding gums is vitamin C deficiency. Our body doesn't produce vitamin C, so you need to make sure you’re getting enough of it from your diet.

Also, in the absence of vitamin C, the body becomes prone to easy bruising. Vitamin C not only helps in maintaining your immune system but also promotes faster healing and prevents any cell damage. Vitamin C is not only found in abundance in citrus fruits such as lemons and oranges but is also present in red capsicums, kale, red chilli peppers, dark leafy vegetables, broccoli and tomatoes.

2. Fatigue 

Whenever there is a deficiency of folate in the body, one may complain of constant fatigue and tiredness. Folic acid can be given to the body through green leafy vegetables, legumes, black-eyed peas, kidney beans, lima beans, navy beans, asparagus and lentils.

3. Muscle cramps

If you are having continuous muscle cramps, then it could be an indication of potassium deficiency in your body. The muscles of our body require a certain amount of potassium for smooth muscle contraction. Green leafy vegetables like spinach, swiss chard and sweet potatoes are the best vegetable sources of potassium. You could also consume bananas: one medium banana has about 422 mg of potassium.

4. Constipation

In the absence of fibre in the diet, our stool can get hard which makes it difficult to pass through the bowel. Dietary fibre from vegetables helps in adding more bulk to the waste and in moving it more quickly through the intestines. A person should consume at least 25 grams of fibre daily in their diet, preferably soluble fibres as they absorb water and form a gel-like paste, thus softening the stool. Foods like oat bran, barley, nuts, seeds, beans, lentils and peas are rich in soluble fibres. Make sure that you drink enough water while increasing your daily fibre intake.

5. Forgetfulness

Forgetting things may seem quite normal but when this forgetfulness becomes more frequent, then this means something is not okay with your brain health. Occasional forgetfulness can be a sign of nutritional deficiency in the brain. Studies have revealed that lutein, a nutrient produced only by plants, is known to enhance learning and memory. Lutein can be found in a variety of vegetables such as leafy greens, carrots, broccoli, corn, and tomatoes.

Hello guys, today I am going to show you how to kill and eradicate bed bugs from your home with three common ingredients, without wasting or spending money on Insecticides, which are not as safe for usage compared to the one I am going to teach you in this short article.

Bed bugs are blood sucking insects that are not only irritating, but can also embarrass you in public if they are found on your body.

In fact people change their perspectives about you when they find out that you carry bedbugs on your body, some persons will even try to avoid you.

The bad thing about bed bug is that it reproduces very fast until it infest your home completely.

This is so because, a single bedbug has both a male and female organ (more like it is a man and a woman at the same time), which is why they reproduce quite faster than other insects.

Hence, if you by chance spot a single bedbug in your home, then there is a high possibility that there are many other of those bedbugs lurking around your home.

Trust me bedbugs are not a good sight at home, if anyone sees bugs in your home, I doubt it they'll ever want to visit your home again.

Hence use this simple combination of kerosene and these other ingredients to kill them and eradicate them permanently from your home and avoid embarrassments:

The ingredients you need are:

1. Kerosene

2. Camphor (N50)

3. Baking Soda

To prepare you bedbug killer: mix all three ingredients in a spray can, and shake thoroughly together.

Allow to stand for at least 30 minutes before using it.

After 30 minutes, spray it on all corners of your home, they love to hide in tight corners such as the spaces between woods, bed and chair spaces, so they can get access to your body quickly etc.

After spraying, lock your room for 2 to 3 hours for the spray to act well, and for you to get a good result. Do this for 3 days.

Bedbugs like every other insect can withstand the toxicity of this mixture of camphor, kerosene and baking soda, its more like a poison to them, and when it gets into their system it destroys vital organs which leads to their deaths.

This method is safer than other means, such as using very harsh insecticides, which can have bad effects in your health eventually.

Some of them contains chemicals that are cancerous ( can cause cancer) if we keep inhaling them.

I hope it works well for you as it did for me. Cheer