Health | Eat Well Live Better

Eating well promotes good health. In turn Good Health plays a big part
to a better life and living. The following are some tips that could
help to make your efforts of selecting your food to eat well and live
better a little easier.

Eating fresh food such as fruit, vegetables, eggs, fish, nuts and
cereals - biodynamic food is always best - is a good way to get most
of your vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Since fresh is best you
should try to do your shopping in smaller quantities two or three
times a week, rather than once a week. Fruit and vegetables will loose
many of their nutrients before you get around eating them. You could
also buy some frozen vegetables or canned fruit without preservatives,
reduced sugar and salt.

From the many foods available, there are many that provide more than
just nutrients to your body. For example:

• Broccoli: this green vegetable, some times with a purple tinge it
may be a natural wonder-drug for many types of cancer, including
breast, uterus, prostrate cancer, colon, liver, and kidneys .
• Carrots: research has found that carrot is a rich source of folic
acid, a B vitamin which has good effect to fight against free
radicals. It also has proved its outstanding role in anti-cancer
effect thanks to its content beta-carotene.
• Cucumbers: The potassium content of cucumber makes it highly useful
for conditions of high and low blood pressure. It is the best natural
diuretic known.

• Kiwi fruit: Studies in Italy, have demonstrated health benefits to
the respiratory tract in particular, children. When five or more
portions a week of kiwifruit were consumed they had 44% less
probability wheezing compared to children eating less than once a
week. Kiwi also protects DNA from mutations.
• Bananas: According to research in “The New England Journal of
Medicine,” eating bananas regularly it could cut the risk of death
from strokes by as much as 40%.

Additionally, if you are tired of using the same old same, peanut
butter, as a spread on your toast, here are some deferent, more
interesting and tastier alternatives you could include in your
shopping list.

• Cashew butter: It has a great taste, it can be smooth or crunchy and
is well known for its good levels of the minerals: calcium, magnesium
and zing also B vitamins: Thiamine, Riboflavin and Niacin. Cashews are
beneficial for problems of teeth and gums and lack of vitality. It
tastes great with sliced banana, a little honey and a dash of
cinnamon.

• Almond butter: This spread on your toast will boost your immunity.
It contains the greatest diversity of phytochemicals (antioxidants) of
any single food source. It has high levels of vitamin E - the
preferred form d-alpha tocopherol. One ounce of almonds provides 35%
of your daily requirements of vitamin E and as much calcium as 1/4 cup
of milk.

Other fresh foods are great stores of essential nutrients that promote
and support good health and better living.

• Eggs: they promote health with a wide array of vitamins and
minerals. However, they have other less well known qualities.
According to one study, eating an egg a day may prevent macular
degeneration due to the Carotenoids content, more specifically lutein
and zeaxanthin. Both are readily available from eggs than from any
other source.

• Fish: Eating fish can provide an excellent source of vitamins and
minerals that could benefit your general health. Numerous studies show
that Omega-3 fatty acids in fatty fish: decrease heart disease, blood
pressure, prevent heart arrhythmias and arthritis and promote healthy
function of the brain.

• Cereals: Whole cereals are low in fat and very rich in nutrients and
soluble and insoluble fiber. The FDA permits health statements on
foods that contain 51% or more of whole grains such as wheat, oats,
barley, corn, and rice, claiming to reduce the risk of heart disease.
Whole-grain foods also contain many phytochemicals, such as ferulic
acid, that play important role in heart disease prevention.

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