Health Benefits Of Superfoods
Superfoods are continuously gaining popularity due to their healing properties. By eating superfoods, you live a longer and healthier life. However, superfoods and their amazing nutrient-dense qualities have been around for centuries—healing generations of families all around the globe.
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Here is a list of the most amazing superfoods and why they reign supreme:
Dark Leafy Greens:
- Kale and Spinach: Packed with vitamins C, A, and K, and has loads of folate. Both protect against diseases and increased weight loss.
- Swiss Chard: Full of antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, and helps regulate blood sugar with all of its vitamins and minerals.
- Collard greens: Keeps eyes healthy with vitamin A and lutein.
- Turnip greens: Provides over a full dose of vitamin K and it has the highest amount of calcium than any other vegetable or fruit.
- Moringa: This green is jam-packed full of protein, calcium, potassium, vitamins A and C.
Vegetables:
- All sprouts and micro-greens: Both of these are equally amazing in their own way, and they both provide the highest concentration of nutrients per calorie of any food.
- Broccoli and cauliflower: These cruciferous vegetables are highly nutritious. Broccoli has fiber, vitamins A, K, and C and cauliflower for its high-quality eye health benefits.
- Sweet potato: Full of fiber and beneficial for gut health and improves vision.
- Beetroot and greens: The greens are just as nutritious.
- Tomatoes: Loaded with lycopene, which helps improve heart health and protects against stroke.
- Brussel Sprouts: This veggie is rich in glucosinolates compounds that help in detoxifying the body.
- Bok choy: Rich in calcium for bone protection and fantastic skin.
- Asparagus: Natural diuretic to eliminate bloating.
Fruits:
- Kiwi's and Strawberries: Loaded with vitamin C.
- Banana's: All around fantastic superfood
- Cherries: Helps decrease (LDL) bad cholesterol.
- Berries: All berries are on the top of all superfood lists with an ample amount of antioxidants to prevent aging and free radicals.
- Citrus fruits: Boosts heart health, helps flush toxins out of the body, low in calories, great for adding to water for an extra immune boost.
- Avocado: A healthy fat full of nutrients that keeps your hunger satisfied for more extended periods. It also helps the quality in which your body absorbs nutrients. It can also be added to food or drinks to make them extra creamy.
- Acai and goji berries: They are fantastic immune boosters filled with an enormous amount of antioxidants.
- Pomegranates: This anti-inflammatory fruit has been a superfood for centuries providing heart health, protects against Alzheimer's and cancer.
Mushrooms:
Believe it or not, mushrooms are some of the top superfoods on the planet. Humans and fungi have more in common with each other than any other kingdom on earth. They work with your body to stimulate the body's natural defense system. Mushroom's high nutrient make up solely relies on absorbing all of the vitamins and nutrients from their hosts. Plants, soils, and trees, to name a few.
There are an enormous amount of mushrooms with incredible health benefits; however, we are only going to discuss a few:
- Lion's mane: This snow-white mushroom with its long ascending mane is the king for optimum brain health. It significantly decreases brain diseases, including dementia, Alzheimer's, and aids in memory loss. Lion's mane also increases focus, concentration, and retaining memory and also improves depression and anxiety.
- Cordyceps: These crazy looking mushrooms offer the most amazing benefits for energy and endurance, and consuming these before physical activity may boost exercise performance. Cordyceps create healthy blood flow throughout the body and increases oxygen levels.
- Reishi: Referred to as the mushroom of immortality and its benefits include anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory, and anti-viral. It also regulates the immune system and helps patients with autoimmune diseases.
- Shiitake: The main compound known as lentinan relieves stomach ailments and boosts the immune system against viruses.
There are many more superfoods throughout the world filled with tremendous nutrients and health benefits for you to enjoy.
Every day you either feed disease or fight disease. The choice is yours. Eating a whole foods diet rich in all these extraordinary superfoods is an essential key in living your healthiest life.
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