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 Expert
Advice on Eating for High Nutrition
Eating Rainbows
Eat foods of color. The perfect color can be found right in
the middle of our rainbow, the color green. There is a pot of
gold and jewels within that rainbow, and these treasures so
contained can be cashed in to purchase good health.
Eat green for wellness. In the 1980s, scientists first began
to explore how phytochemicals prevent cancers. A great amount
of emphasis was placed upon the fruits and vegetables that
contain vibrant colors. The best known of these wonder drugs
was recognized as beta carotene. That's what gives carrots
their
bright orange hue.
In the 1990s, scientists at the University of Minnesota
(Steinmetz, et. Al.) categorized different groups of fruits
and vegetables demonstrating life giving, disease fighting
qualities. In doing so, they defined some of those magic
colors, and the phytochemicals so contained within those
pigments.
SOME OF THE MAGICAL COLORS
The violet, indigo and blues of the plant kingdom include
phenols and dithiolthiolnines contained in eggplant,
cruciferous vegetables, grapes, plums, and grains.
Eat onions and shallots, leeks, scallions and garlic for
cancer-fighting alliums. Those green leafy vegetables contain
flavonoids, and inositol is found in beans. Green fruits and
veggies contain phenols, and plant sterols, protease
Inhibitors and saponins.
Yellow limonines contained in citrus fruit and squash have
also been identified
as cancer fighters, as have the orange carotines in carrots,
and my all-time favorite vitamin pill, the cantaloupe.
Balancing out the rainbow's spectrum would be the red phenols
in peppers, radishes, and tomatoes.
Tens of thousands of unique substances have been identified,
and there are still
plant hormones and enzymes yet to be discovered.
Remarkably, the one plant containing the greatest amount
of these wonderful
phytochemicals is the soybean. Soybeans contain coumarins,
flavonoids, inositol,
Isoflavones, lignans, phenols, plant sterols, protease
inhibitors, saponins, and Omega 3 and Omega 6 oils.
For many years, it has been said that "an apple a day
keeps the doctor away."
Such wisdom! Each day of one's life should reflect a lifestyle
that includes this maxim: "For the best of health eat a
rainbow today!"
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