Everything Fitness — Beets

7 Benefits of Eating Beets!   I’ll bet you already know that beets (Beta vulgaris) are a healthy vegetable, but did you know that they have more to offer than just vitamins and minerals? Beets Benefits: Are Beets good for you? Yes! High in Folate Why take a pre-natal pill to increase folate levels in pregnancy when you can eat a delicious roasted beet salad and get what you need instead? Anti-inflammatory The phytonutrients betanin, isobetanin, and vulgaxanthin are well known to have anti-inflammatory properties. This makes beets very good for degenerative diseases that originate in inflammation such as arthritis, diabetes...