Antioxidants
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Natural sources of antioxidants, such as Vitamins C and E and beta carotene, are some of your best defenses against coronary-pulmonary aging. Choose from these foods when eating at least five servings per day of fruits and vegetables, better yet nine servings:
Vitamin C 1000 with Rose Hips
Red pepper, Brussels sprouts, papaya, orange, chestnuts, butternut squash, kiwi, strawberries, cantaloupe, kale, pink grapefruit, sweet potato, cabbage, broccoli,
and cauliflower. (The latter three also help the liver detoxify poisons and "bad" estrogens (16-hydroxyestrone) that promote breast, colon, cervical and prostate cancer.)
Vitamin E:
Almonds, spinach, parsnips, peanut butter, sunflower seeds, asparagus, sweet potato, wheat germ, brussels sprouts, peanuts, pecans.
Beta carotene:
Carrot, butternut squash, cantaloupe, sweet potato, kale, watercress, apricot, red pepper, turnip greens, mango.
A good rule of thumb: Eat from the fruit and vegetable "color palette" each day and include red, green, orange, blue (blueberries) and yellow.
Eating lots of antioxidants keeps your lungs strong! According to an article in the FASEB Journal, people who ate the most antioxidants were able to exhale almost 1/2-cup more air in one second than people who ate much less. The ability to inhale and exhale volumes of air is called "Vital Capacity" and is perhaps the best physical exam indicator of life expectancy!
Reminder: Lung cancer is the number-one cancer killer and that over 18-percent of victims never smoked. And those numbers will keep changing. New studies show that HPV is now linked to tongue, throat and lung cancer, as well.
Do try to eat your nine servings of a rainbow variety of fruits, seeds, nuts and vegetables. Then take a professional quality multi-vitamin/mineral daily. As iron is a pro-oxidant, it should not be included usually except in the anemic, childrens formulas and for menstrating or pregnant females.
For safe, doctor-approved antioxidant supplementation, check out the Super Antioxidants
In other recent news, a study gives green tea another reason why we should love it. Now, a study from Israel's Institute of Technology has found the antioxidants in green tea called polyphenols can destroy the compounds that lead to bad breath and tooth decay. The producers of TheraBreath have known this for some time. TheraBreath PLUS Oral Rinse is the only mouthwash on the market with a stable green tea formula. It tastes great and works effectively to eliminate even chronic halitosis and now this new study just confirms what we've always known. Get your own supply of TheraBreath PLUS Oral Rinse from the original Therabreath web site.
