Make your diet as colorful as rainbow
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There is a constant chemical process going on in your body, and this process frees up toxins. Fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants which neutralize these toxins and shield your cells and DNA from the damage they would cause.
Red and pink fruits and vegetables such as tomato, red pepper, apples, onion, grapefruit, watermelon as well as beets.
Benefits:
They contain lycopene which aids short and long-term memory, prevents circulatory problems and heart disease as well as plays a role in cancer prevention, especially skin, prostate, uterine, breast and prostate cancers. Lycopene also blocks cholesterol deposit in your circulatory system.
Blue and purple fruits and vegetables such as dark grape, plum, red cabbage, beet, fig and black currant.
Benefits:
They contain anthocyanin, which prevents cholesterol deposits and keeps the veins and arteries flexible. Blu and purple foods shield the skin from UV rays and protect your retina from damage.
Yellow and orange fruits and vegetables such as carrot, pumpkin, pear, orange, tangerine, pineapple, mango, and banana.
Benefits:
They contain beta-carotene a vitamin A provitamin which aids vision, circulation, strengthens the immune system and plays a big role in cancer prevention. Yellow and orange foods also slow the process of aging and protect the skin from harmful rays as well as helps to prevent wrinkle formation.
Green fruits and vegetables such as cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, spinach and leafy greens, kiwi, green apples, peas, green beans.
Benefits:
They contain lutein which aids vision, strengthen the bones, prevents cancers, destroys bacteria and cleans the blood.
White foods such as garlic, onion, cauliflower, and mushroom.
Benefits:
They have anti-inflammatory, allergy reducing and cancer-preventing properties.
Make your diet colorful and make your body healthy
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Put a Little Rainbow in Your Diet #OurAuthorGangMake your diet as colorful as rainbow by Erika M Szabo There is a constant chemical process going on in your body, and this process frees up toxins. Fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants which neutralize these toxins and shield your cells and DNA from ...
I'm a vegetarian, so eat this kind of food every day. It always takes me by surprise that not everyone does too! Great post.
Erika Szabo shared information on improving your health by adding color to your eating plan. This is great information friends!
Great nutritional info!! You are so right, we should all add color to our diets to improve our health.
Erika Szabo shares great advice on eating to get a better healthier you.
Tuesday on A Small Gang of Authors . . . Erika M. Szabo gives us some tips on adding "color" to our diet with a variety of fruits and vegetable
Most enlightening, Erika. Thank you for the tips. Adding color to one's diet: a healthy way to live. I like that.
The older I get the more I adapt this into my diet. Thanks for the info.
I've heard this which is why I eat eggplant and blueberries when I can.
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