Eat yourself healthy

Lifespanessential foods

feeds@yuku.com (Lynne Hand) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:57:18 GMT

This article on 20 types of food and drink is interesting:-

http://www.complementaryt...nal-foods-you-should.html

Surprised about iceberg lettuce

feeds@yuku.com (Lynne Hand) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:57:06 GMT

I always thought this lettuce was only for adding a bit of colour and crunch to a salad. But I was wrong.

Red Fruit and Veg

feeds@yuku.com (Lynne Hand) — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:13:12 GMT

Strawberries, raspberries, beetroot, red peppers, red apples, cherries, tomatoes and even the devil's fruit - rhubarb, all contain high levels of antioxidants. Antioxidants protect us from free radicals - the harmful chemicals produced by our bodies.

According to Dr Sarah Schenker, a dietician, from the British Nutrition Foundation, the pigment in red foods has high antioxidant potential, they contain nutrients that are not essential - and you won't suffer nutritionally...

Carrots

feeds@yuku.com (Lynne Hand) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:58:53 GMT

β-carotene, molecule of Vitamin A, is abundant in the carrot and it's what gives it its characteristic orange colour, but interestingly the orange colour didn't appear until the 17th century. You can even get purple carrots, the colour comes from anthocyanin pigments.

Nowadays they...

Tomatoes

feeds@yuku.com (Lynne Hand) — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:50:22 GMT

Tomatoes contain Lycopene, that's what gives it its red colour. It is one of the most potent carotenoid antioxidants, the tomato's species classification is actually Lycopersicon esculentum.

For once cooked and processed this is one food that increases the efficacy, believe it or not lycopene in tomato paste is four times more bioavailable than in fresh tomatoes.

If you want to protect...