Super Health Foods
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If you haven’t heard any hype about açaí (pronounced ah-sah-EE or ah-sigh-ee), you’ve missed hearing about one of the newest and brightest super health foods. These little gems have more antioxidants per four-ounce serving than blueberries, strawberries, and red wine combined!
Açaí berries are produced by a palm tree that grows in the floodplain areas of [...]
The Complete Super Hero Health Food Team
As an easy checklist, here’s the complete Super Hero Top 7 Health Food Team. These foods are full of phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals and healthful fatty acids.
> Blueberries (blackberries, boysenberries, cherries, cranberries, raspberries, red grapes and strawberries) – Eat one to two cups of fresh or frozen fruit daily. Full of antioxidants and vitamins C & [...]
Walnuts - A Winning Super Health Food
Completing our team of Super Hero Health Foods are walnuts. These delicious nuts are a great source of those all-important omega-3 fatty acids. They also have relatively high levels of l-arginine, which is an essential amino acid reported to help prevent hypertension.
Several polyphenolic compounds in walnuts, like ellagic and gallic acid, possess antioxidant activity great [...]
Tomatoes are Tops for Health!
Tomatoes are such a great combination of Super Hero Health Food, good taste, and versatility!
Packed full of carotenoids, tomatoes have:
alpha-carotene
beta-carotene
lutein
lycopene
phytoene
phytofluene
All of these are good for your health, but lycopene is really blue ribbon material. It’s reported to reduce rates of cancer, especially prostate cancer. Combined with the lutein, it also helps prevent macular degeneration.
Tomato Super [...]
Pumpkin Power!
Yes, PUMPKIN is one of the Super Hero Health Foods!
It is the best source of the combination of alpha-carotene and beta-carotene, two carotenoids that work optimally as a team.
Carotenoids are converted to vitamin A, and pumpkin has twice as much alpha-carotene as carrots. Does that give you a clue what it’s good for?
Yes, you win! [...]
Oats - Super Hero of the Whole Grain Health Foods
Oats aren’t just any old whole grain, but are considered the nutritional powerhouse of all whole grains, a sort of Super-Super Hero of Health Foods.
A rich source of fiber, oats have beta-glucans, a fiber which helps protect against heart disease.
Oats also have a bunch of minerals needed for good health, including:
copper
magnesium
manganese
potassium
selenium
zinc
These minerals lower the risk for [...]
Spinach, Part of the Super Hero Health Food Team
Popeye knew what he was doing when he was constantly chowing down on spinach!
It’s full of healthy stuff like:
antioxidants (lutein and beta-carotene),
minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium and zinc),
omega-3 fatty acids, and
betaine.
You know antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids do good things for your body, and you need minerals for good health also.
Betaine is a fat-derived compound that [...]