Power Foods
Top Power Food List
by Mike Nystrom
The following are foods that should be included in your diet at least once a week to improve overall body function and health. Including these foods will not only lead to enhanced immune function, but your energy levels will rise, and they will definitely work to keep you regular!
- Broccoli – Broccoli is delicious and it contains many different nutrients including: calcium, phosphorus, potassium, vitamin C. Broccoli is also high in several different phytochemicals including: carotenes, dithiolthiones which help to block carcinogen damage to cells.
- Blueberries – Blueberries are high in vitamin C and potassium. They also contain valuable phytochemicals caffeic and ferulic acid. These help to make carcinogens water soluble so they are excreted and bind nitrates in the stomach preventing nitrosamines.
- Sweet potatoes – These potatoes are the most nutritious of all potatoes and contain protein, vitamin A, C, iron and calcium. They also have the phytochemical carotenes which reduce the risk of most cancers.
- Soy – Soy milk is delicious if you haven't tried it, and cooking with soybean oil will improve heart health. Soy is high in vitamin K and the oil is high in polyunsaturated fat. Soy is also full of antioxidant phytocehmicals like caffeic acid, ferulic acid, isflavones, phytoestrogens, protease inhibitors, and saponins. The combination of all these phytochemical factors working together to protect your body makes soy one of the best things you can eat or drink.
- Bananas – Bananas are delicious and they are high in potassium and folate. They also contain ferulic acid and limonene.
- Garlic – Garlic is not particularly high in any nutrient because we take it in in such small amounts, but it contains ally sulfides which trigger enzyme production to facilitate carcinogen excretion. Basically it lowers the risk of stomach and colon cancer.
- Black beans – These beans are another food that is incredible to put into your body. They contain good amounts of numerous vitamins and minerals including:calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and folate. They also have some phytochemical quality in the form of isoflavones, protease inhibitors, and saponins. Again they are good in reducing the risk of cancer.
- Red peppers – These are high in vitamin C, A, and folate as well as potassium, phosphorus and magnesium. Phytochemicals are also present in these peppers in the form of casoian, carotenes. Again these help in the excretion of carcinogens and caspian helps with clotting and reduces the risk of fatal clots.
- Whole grains – These grains can be found in many different foods and contain a range of vitamins and minerals including: Niacin, B 6, vitamin E, magnesium and phosphorus. They also contain the phytochemical phytic acid which helps to prevent the formation of cancer causing free radicals.
Investing a little bit of time and money at the grocery store can go a long way. As you can see many of these foods have cancer fighting properties and will help to combat one of the leading killers in our nation.
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