7 Best & 7 Worst Foods for Health & Longevity

[Guest guest]

Hi Everybody,

I'm still doing 100% raw/live foods for 3 weeks straight now but

found this site on Dr.Joel Fuhrman. Dr.Fuhrman has a website and

wrote a book called " Eat to Live. " This is an article from his

website.

 

I do eat most of these good foods except black raspberries and sure

glad I gave up butter on July 6. I was really into butter when I

used to eat popcorn almost every day and also would have butter on

my sweet potato at lunch time.

 

Have a good Monday!

 

Hugs, Janice from Twinsburg Ohio

 

 

Seven Best and Seven Worst Foods for Health and Longevity

 

Because food has the power to heal, my patients often ask me for my

top list of healthy food – the anti-oxidant foods, heart healthy

foods, and nutritious foods that are central to the Eat To Live

program. These high nutrient foods, consumed regularly, will

contribute to your health and longevity. What you eat -- now and

when you were growing up -- dramatically affects the state of your

health. The effect is cumulative, influencing everything from the

amount of energy you have (or lack), to your emotional state,

medical condition, and ultimately longevity

 

Top Seven Foods for Good Health and Longevity

 

Black raspberries

Strawberries

Blueberries

Flax Seeds

Green Leafy Vegetables

Tomatoes

Broccoli sprouts

The healthy and nutritious foods are high antioxidant foods,

primarily fruits and vegetables. I selected these healthy foods

because they contain the most powerful phytochemicals and

anthocyanins which illustrate strong inhibition of chemocarcinogens.

 

Other foods with high antioxidant and high anti-cancer potential

include walnuts, sunflower seeds, pomegranates, beets, cabbage,

peppers, and parsley. Make your diet strongly cancer-protective and

longevity-favorable by including these highly beneficial, nutritious

foods.

 

A good way to think about nutritious food: Produce is the most

important health care your money can buy.

 

Food also has the potential to harm, and these are effective foods

for those attempting to die younger. One of my daughters calls this

list the Seven Foods of Death.

 

Worst Seven Foods for Health and Longevity

 

Butter

Cheese

Potato Chips and French Fries

Doughnuts

Salt

Sausage, hot dogs

Pickled, smoked or barbequed meat

Foods high in saturated fat and trans fat are consistently

associated with high cancer rates. Cheese and butter typically

contain over ten times as much saturated fat as fish and white meat

chicken and turkey.

 

Salt has been consistently linked to stomach cancer and stroke, even

in populations that eat diets low in saturated fat.

 

Add the carcinogenic potential from heated and overcooked oils

(usually trans containing) delivered in doughnuts and fries with the

powerful cancer inducing properties of carbohydrates cooked at high

heat (acrylamide formation) and you have a great cancer potion.

 

Needless to say, I advise people to avoid the foods on my " worst

list " entirely.

 

The best foods to eat are the healthy, nutritious fresh fruits and

vegetables. By making these antioxidant foods the major portion of

your diet, you can protect yourself against cancer and other serious

diseases. As you extend your youthful vigor into later years, you

have contributed to your longevity by Eating to Live with a healthy,

nutritious diet.

[Guest guest]

Thanks for posting these encouraging reinstatements, Janice! Like you, I find

it so much easier to stay raw while researching raw.

I'm surprised that cherries (esp. Montmorency) did not make this list nor have

a mention. I understand that they are right up there with blueberries and

pomegranates on the phytonutrient/antioxidant range!

I have a question for everyone on kale, because I hate it! I could tolerate

blending it up with bananas, but I was wondering, if I'm already eating 1/2 a

bundle of parsley (I LOVE parsley!!!) and broccoli sprouts everyday in my mostly

romaine salads, will I be missing any nutrients by totally cutting out kale???

Thanks, Tiffany Lohr

 

Janice <jabberjan152 wrote:

Hi Everybody,

I'm still doing 100% raw/live foods for 3 weeks straight now but found this site

on Dr. Joel Fuhrman. (He) wrote a book called " Eat to Live. " This is an

article from his website...(snip).

....Hugs, Janice from Twinsburg Ohio

 

....(snip)...What you eat -- now and when you were growing up -- dramatically

affects the state of your health. The effect is cumulative...(snip).

 

Top Seven Foods for Good Health and Longevity:

Black raspberries

Strawberries

Blueberries

Flax Seeds

Green Leafy Vegetables

Tomatoes

Broccoli sprouts

 

...(snip)...I selected these healthy foods because they contain the most

powerful phytochemicals and anthocyanins which illustrate strong inhibition of

chemocarcinogens.

Other (similarily beneficial) foods include:

walnuts

sunflower seeds

pomegranates

beets

cabbage

peppers

parsley

 

....(snip)...Food also has the potential to harm, and these are effective foods

for those attempting to die younger...(snip).

 

Worst Seven Foods for Health and Longevity:

Butter

Cheese

Potato Chips and French Fries

Doughnuts

Salt

Sausage, hot dogs

Pickled, smoked or barbequed meat

 

Foods high in saturated fat and trans fat are consistently associated with

high cancer rates. Cheese and butter typically contain over ten times as much

saturated fat as fish and white meat chicken and turkey.

Salt has been consistently linked to stomach cancer and stroke, even in

populations that eat diets low in saturated fat.

Add the carcinogenic potential from heated and overcooked oils (usually trans

containing) delivered in doughnuts and fries with the powerful cancer inducing

properties of carbohydrates cooked at high heat (acrylamide formation) and you

have a great cancer potion.

Needless to say, I advise people to avoid the foods on my " worst list " entirely.

....(snip).

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

> Seven Best and Seven Worst Foods for Health and Longevity

 

> Blueberries (as one of the best)

 

QUESTION: I have heard that blueberries either are extremely acidic or leave an

extremely

acidic ash in the body after ingestion and assimilation which is very unhealthy

for us so I

have been avoiding them; what and where is the " truth " ?

 

Melanie

[Guest guest]

You might try juicing it, if you have a juicer, that is. I have a

Champion and I've been adding a little kale to my fruit juices. I

don't taste it, but I get the nutrients that way. It's important to

work down an apple after the kale to make sure it gets masticated. Or,

you could add it to something in your food processor. Or, you could

chop it down smaller for your salad.

 

Janet

 

rawfood , Tiffany <bluelairess wrote:

>

> I have a question for everyone on kale, because I hate it! I could

tolerate blending it up with bananas, but I was wondering, if I'm

already eating 1/2 a bundle of parsley (I LOVE parsley!!!) and broccoli

sprouts everyday in my mostly romaine salads, will I be missing any

nutrients by totally cutting out kale???

> Thanks, Tiffany Lohr

>