Every time you pick up a health magazine, you get a lecture on eating healthier. It is general knowledge that eating healthier can make you more beautiful, give you more energy, and even lengthen your life; but not many people know what to eat that will activate such pleasurable results. Use the following nutrients as a starting point to building a healthier diet regime.
- Eat plenty of dark green vegetables and orange vegetables and fruits (papaya, mango) weekly to meet your vitamin A needs and potential antioxidant benefits.
- B12:- B12 is bound to protein, so foods like meat, fish, eggs, and dairy products like yogurt and milk are the principal sources.
- Chromium:- Grain breads and cereals, meat, nuts, prunes, raisins, beer and wine.
- Vitamin K:- Kale, spinach, broccoli, asparagus, arugula, green leaf lettuce, soybean oil, canola oil, olive oil and tomatoes.
- Potassium:- Choose whole, unprocessed foods as often as possible, especially fruits and vegetables, low-fat dairy products, whole grains, fish and lean meats.
- Magnesium:- Avocados, nuts, and leafy greens including acorn squash, kiwi, and almonds.
- Vitamin C:- Oranges, green bell peppers, strawberries, broccoli, cantaloupe and tomatoes, turnip greens, sweet potatoes and okra has a high concentration of vitamin C.
- Vitamin D:- We rely on fortified milk and breakfast cereals to get most of our dietary vitamin D. Apart from a few kinds of fish, including herring and sardines; there aren't many natural food sources, which leave Bolds supplements and direct sunlight.
- Folate/Folic Acid:- Liver, dried beans, peas, spinach, leafy greens, asparagus and fortified cereals.
- Vitamin E:- Wheat germ oil. Sunflower seeds, cooked spinach, almonds, safflower oil and hazelnuts.
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