Ten Best and Worst Foods

Food has the potential to affect your physical health, emotional well-being and mental acuity.  Choose wisely.

The best foods are cancer-protective and longevity-favorable and, if consumed regularly, will contribute to maintaining ideal weight, achieving super immunity and promoting overall well-being.

Ten Best Foods:

1. Green Leafy Vegetables (kale, collard greens, swiss chard, mustard greens, spinach, lettuce)
2. Non-leafy Cruciferous Vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage)
3. Berries
4. Beans
5. Mushrooms
6. Onions
7. Seeds (Flax seeds, chia, hemp, sesame, sunflower, pumpkin)
8. Nuts (walnuts, pistachio, pine-nuts, almonds, cashews)
9. Tomatoes
10. Pomegranates

But the worst foods can be the leading causes of death, including cancer, diabetes and heart diseases.  The wrong foods can be as addictive as drugs and alcohol and can cause us to lead lives that provide only a fraction of our potential for health, energy level and physiological well-being.

Ten Worst Foods:

1. Full-fat Dairy (cheese, ice cream, butter, whole milk)
2. Trans Fat Containing Foods (stick margarine, shortening, fast foods, commercial baked goods)
3. Doughnuts
4. Sausage, Hot Dogs, and Luncheon Meats
5. Smoked Meat, Barbecued Meat and Conventionally-raised Red Meat
6. Fried Foods including Potato Chips and French Fries
7. Highly-salted Foods
8. Soda
9. Refined White Sugar
10. Refined White Flour

For a deeper look at the "Ten Best and Worst Foods", please refer to the full article

To fine tune your eating habits, you can also look at eating according to your Blood Type.



Eat Right 4 Your Type
by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo

Eat Tomatoes to Protect Against Heart Attack and Stroke

According to Dr. Fuhrman, carotenoids are a family of over six hundred phytochemicals, including alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, lycopene, lutein and zeaxanthin. Carotenoids are abundant in green and yellow-orange vegetables and fruits and help to defend the body’s tissues against oxidative damage, oxidative damage from free radicals contributes to chronic diseases and aging.¹

The levels of carotenoids in your skin and in your blood are a good indicator of your overall health because the levels parallel the levels of plant-derived phytochemicals in general. In fact, Dr. Fuhrman uses a carotenoid skin testing method to non-invasively track his patients’ progress as they adopt a nutritarian diet. Low blood levels of total carotenoids, alpha-carotene, and lycopene have been linked to premature death; of all the carotenoids, very low blood lycopene was the strongest predictor of mortality.²

Lycopene is the signature carotenoid of the tomato. The lycopene in the American diet is 85 percent derived from tomatoes.³ Lycopene is found circulating in the blood and also concentrates in the male reproductive system, hence its protective effects against prostate cancer. ⁴ In the skin, lycopene helps to prevent UV damage from the sun, protecting against skin cancer. ⁵ Lycopene is known for its anti-cancer properties, but did you know that lycopene has also been intensively studied for its beneficial cardiovascular effects?

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3. Canene-Adams K, Campbell JK, Zaripheh S, et al. The tomato as a functional food. J Nutr 2005;135:1226-1230.
4. van Breemen RB, Pajkovic N. Multitargeted therapy of cancer by lycopene. Cancer Lett 2008;269:339-351.
5. Rizwan M, Rodriguez-Blanco I, Harbottle A, et al. Tomato paste rich in lycopene protects against cutaneous photodamage in humans in vivo. Br J Dermatol 2010.