Eat aromatic herbs for your health

**Maxmann’s photo in Pixabay.** The nutrient diversity of herbs helps to balance our body.

Small fresh leaves that give off a palette of aromas and flavors, whose intensity varies from plant to plant, should always be present in our daily lives. Aromatic herbs are essential in cooking, both for the special touch they give in tasting and decoration, but also in the balance of our body, given the complex diversity of nutrients they offer.

**Torsten Janke’s photo in Pixabay.** The consumption of aromatic herbs helps to reduce the salt in the seasoning of cooked meals.

Regular consumption of spices or aromatic herbs provides a significant reduction in the use of salt, for example, which reduces the risk associated with hypertension, that is, lower probability of negative cardiovascular stresses, one of the main generators of death worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. A concern also assumed by the Directorate-General of Health that, through the National Program for the Promotion of Healthy Food, alerts to the excess of salt consumption in Portugal. Each Portuguese ingests, on average, about 10.5 grams of salt a day, when the recommended maximum is 5 grams, the equivalent of one teaspoon.

**Reija Hirvonen’s photo in Pixabay.** The aromatic herbs should be placed in cooked meals only at the end to not lose properties.

“Herbs should only be added to foods at the end of their preparation since most of their properties are lost by the action of heat,” warned the heads of the Directorate General of Health in a letter published on the blog healthy and sustainable food or in the website of the General Directorate of Health). They point out that “a number of studies indicate that phytochemical substances appear to be responsible for the properties attributed to aromatic herbs, in particular: prevention of cancer, cardiovascular, reproductive and nervous functioning and as a stimulant of the digestive system, and an enabler of the immune system.”

By consuming aromatic herbs we are giving our body proteins, vitamins, minerals (calcium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, and iron), fibers, volatile components (essential oils) and phytochemicals (they act as antioxidants, bactericides, antiviruses, phytosterols, and inducers or enzyme inhibitors).
Thus, a more aromatic diet prevents any negative stresses in the present and in the future.

Find out now some aromatic herbs in a text published on this site and also the benefits you gain from consuming precious herbs regularly, but pay attention to contraindications for what your consumption should be moderate and always watched by a nutritionist, especially when there is some negative stress.

This text is an awareness. According to the season of the year and the moment in which you are, it is up to each one to feel if they should consume this food. The dosage and frequency depend on the nature and physical condition of each Human Being.