Colorful Healthy Diet
The more colorful your diet, the better, according to Dr David Heber MD. Take few minutes to ponder what is the color of your food that you consume daily? Dr Heber recommends that a diet with fruits and vegetable across the spectrum of color. Fruits and vegetables are briefly divided into seven color categories :
Red Group (watermelon and tomatoes)
These contain carotenoid lycopene. Lycopene is able to help our body to get rid of free radicals that damage gene. One glass of tomato juice gives you 50% of the recommended lycopene.
Orange Group (carrots, mangoes,pumpkin and sweet potatoes)
This group of food contain alpha carotene, which protects against cancer. They also contain beta carotene, which is an important substance that body convert to vitamin A. Beta carotene also good for night vision.
Orange/Yellow Group (pineapple, orange,papayas and peaches)
These contain beta cryptothanxin, which is believed may help to prevent heart disease.
Red/Purple Goup (beets, eggplants, red wine, prunes, cranberries, black berries and red apples)
These food are loaded with powerful antioxidants called anthocyanins. Anthocyanins is believed to protect heart disease by preventing blood clots. They may also delay the aging of cells in the body.
Dark Green Group (broccoli,cabbage, Chinese cabbage)
These categories of food contain high level of sulforphane and isocyanate and indoles. Indoles is able to assist in warding off cancer by inhibiting carcinogens.
White/Green Group (leeks, celery,pears, garlic and onions
The onions contain high level of allicin -a type of antitumor properties. Other food contain of antioxidant flavonoids such as quercetin and kaempferol.
There is another category of food which does not mention by Dr David, it is the Black color group. According to the Chinese community, this group of food such as black sesame, black fungus and mushroom contain high level of vitamin E , mushroom is especially good for cancer prevention and enhance our immune system.
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