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Nutrition Source
"You are what you eat"
Your choice of food reflects your whole well being. Unhealthy eating habits could cause serious disease and illness. The kind of food that provides optimum nutrition is one of the best ways to achieve good health. In fact, scientists are discovering that certain foods actually protect against disease and are an important source for your health. Carrots and broccoli, for example, contain beta-carotene which appear to be able to help the immune system destroy cancer cells. You can prevent high blood pressure and heart disease by adopting a healthy lifestyle. These steps include maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active, following a healthy eating plan that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and low fat dairy foods, choosing and preparing foods with less salt and sodium, and if you drink alcoholic beverages, drinking in moderation.
Prevention with Food
- Black-, Blue-, Rasp-, Strawberries: antioxidant, prevent arterial disease and (bad) cholesterol
- Apples: antioxidant, prevent cardiovascular disease.
- Lemons: purifying , nourishing, stimulating digestion, reducing toxins
- Dates and Figs: high fibers, increase energy, help build tissues
- Almonds: increase energy and prevent cancer and heart disease
- Beans: Legumes: stimulating digestion, high fiber
- Garlic: used for high blood pressure and cholesterol, sore throats
- Ginger: prevent cancer, reducing cholesterol, blood-thinning, prevent heart disease, used for, anorexia, vomiting
- Yogurt and Honey: benefits for lungs and heart
- Seeds: digestive, removing toxins
- Soya: reduce effects of menopause, prevent heart disease and colon cancer
- Beets: prevent cancer, maintain normal blood pressure
- Carrots: prevent cancer, digestive aid, eliminates flatulence
- Melons, Kiwi: antioxidant, high Vitamin C
- Oranges and Grapefruits: prevent cancer, high Vitamin C, contain fibers
- Peaches, Pears, Plumes: antioxidant, improve vitality, stimulating bowel
- Asparagus: blood cleaning, prevent kidney disease, high fiber
- Oats: strengthens nervous system, removes cholesterol, prevent heart disease
- Corn: helps kidney disease, promote tees, overcome sexual weakness, improve appetite
- Broccoli: prevent cancer and heart disease, high Vitamin C, high fiber, fat burner
- Cabbage, Cauliflower: rich in collagen, antioxidant, prevent cancer
- Leafy green, spinach: high fiber, prevent heart disease, source of Vitamin A,C
- Green Tea: prevent cancer and heart disease, fight dental cavities, antioxidant
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