Cancer Super Fruits
Start making blueberries a part of your diet. One cup = 80 - 84 calories.
There are wild blueberries and cultivated blueberries and is a super food. Wild blueberries can be smaller. Cultivated blueberries are bigger, have a bit more juice and a little bit different flavor. Anthocyanins are compounds that give blueberries their blue color.
- 17 vitamins and minerals.
- Will help with decreasing obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
- Helps build bone and strength.
- Helps reduce calcium loss and helps maintain strength and elasticity of bones and joints.
- Blood Pressure reduced with blueberries.
- Has antioxidant that neutralizes free radical damage.
- Helps prevent esophageal, lung, mouth, pharynx, endometrial, pancreatic, prostate and colon cancer because of antioxidants with gallic acid.
- Helps with DNA synthesis and repair and prevents formation of cancer cells in the DNA.
- Reduces risk of Parkinson’s disease and boosts brain health.
- Helps with short-term memory loss.
- Constipation is helped because of the fiber content.
- Fiber content helps with weight loss and weight management.
- Prevent damage to the skin by the sun, smoke and pollution.
- Improves overall skin and smooths wrinkles and helps with anti-aging.
- High levels of vitamin K, manganese and vitamin C.
- The blue color or anthocyanins help with keeping your heart healthy.
- Blueberries like cranberry juice help promote healthy urinary tract health.
- Has antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds.
- Protect the retina from oxygen and sunlight damage and preserves vision.
- Effective immune builder and anti-bacterial and promotes immunity.
- Restore hormone balance, which counteracts acne
What is your favorite fruit?
Strawberries are a popular fruit, fresh or frozen. They are another super food.
1 cup = 50 calories and provides vitamin C, potassium, folic acid and fiber, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, dietary fiber, protein. Contains antioxidants anthocyanins, ellagic acid, quercetin and kaempferol. Fat free and cholesterol-free, low-calorie fruit.
- Packed with high levels of antioxidants and defense against free radical damage.
- Boost immunity with the healthy vitamin C and helps prevent cataracts, also protects eyes from the sun’s harsh UV rays. Strengthens cornea and retina.
- Helps with cancer prevention with ‘ellagic acid’, reducing tumor growth and decreases inflammation in the body.
- Neutralizes the potentially negative effect on our cells with the antioxidants.
- Improves skin’s elasticity and resilience, which helps to delay aging.
- Fights bad cholesterol (LDL) and helps keep the heart healthy.
- Reduces oxidative damage, which plays a role in heart disease and diabetes.
- Reduce inflammation of the joints that cause arthritis (16 strawberries a week).
- Potassium helps regulate blood pressure and help lower high blood pressure by acting as a buffer against the negative effects of sodium.
- Aids in having a healthy digestion with the fiber content, thus helping with constipation and diverticulitis (inflammation of the intestines).
- Helps in fighting type 2 diabetes with the aid of fiber and helps with weight control.
- Helpful in early stages of pregnancy in development of baby’s brain, skull and spinal cord, and aids in preventing spina bifida.
- Plays a role in keeping hair healthy, increases energy.
- Reduces harmful blood clots associated with strokes and reduces risk of stroke.
- Alleviates symptoms of allergies and incidence of asthma is lower.
- Helps with depression by preventing an excess of homocysteine from forming in the body.
- They reduce the risk of degenerative disease from the folic acid.
- Has the ability to help reduce stress, which lowers blood pressure, preventing the development of hypertension (high blood pressure).
- Helps to prevent bone loss and preserving calcium, because of the high potassium.
- Soft tissue recovery and repair.
Do you eat fruit at least 3 times a week?
The fuzzy fruit and a member of the stone fruit family, meaning one large stone in the middle.
Other stone fruits are; cherries, apricots, plums and nectarines. There are two varieties of peaches, freestone (flesh easily comes apart from the stone) and clingstone. One peach is about 37 - 50 calories, cholesterol, saturated fats and sodium free. Native to China. Has 10 vitamins.
- Helps wards off diseases such as diabetes and improves blood sugar.
- Helps combat the formation of free radicals that cause cancer.
- High fiber intake and lowers risk of colon cancer.
- Aids in stopping aggressive breast cancer and does not hurt healthy cells.
- Helps ward off cardiovascular diseases and supports heart health with the high potassium.
- Decreases risk of macular degeneration, and improved eye health.
- Perfect for a smack food for maintaining weight loss.
- Natural moisturizer, often used in cosmetics, helps regenerate skin tissue.
- Reduces hair loss.
- Stress-reliever that reduces anxiety and lowers blood pressure.
- Protects cells from damage with the antioxidant and helps prevent cancer.
- Aids in removing worms from the intestines.
- Cleanses your kidneys and bladder.
- Calms an upset stomach.
- Reduces oxidation of bad LDL cholesterol.
- Acts as a diuretic and laxative and helps gout and rheumatism.
- Inhibit tumor growth with their antimicrobial and antioxidant strength.
- Protection from lung and oral cavity cancers.
- Helps in red blood cell formation.
- Helps in blood clotting with the vitamin K.
- Potassium aids in preventing kidney stones and bone loss.
- Helps your immune system.
- Use peaches directly for care of dark circles and wrinkles.
Love watermelon, now you can eat this fruit and know that it's not only tasty but good for you!
One cup = 40 - 46 calories. 92% water. Good snack food fat free, low sodium. Best dietary sources of lycopene levels, an antioxidant, of any fruit or vegetable. Another powerful, body-healing fruit. Good source of potassium.
- Excellent for antioxidant and anti-inflammatory health benefits.
- Aids in prostate cancer prevention.
- Protects cells from damage and helps lower risk and improves heart health.
- Improves blood flow and reduces accumulation of excess fat in cells.
- Helps reduce hypertension and lowers blood pressure by improving blood flow.
- Works as an antioxidant reducing inflammation and neutralizing free radicals.
- Helps keep you hydrated, juice is full of good electrolytes and help prevent heat stroke.
- Encourages a healthy digestive tract and helps keep you regular.
- Keeps hair and skin moisturized.
- Drinking watermelon juice before intense workout helps reduce next-day muscle soreness, because of the amino acid.
- Lycopene promotes stronger bones and helps prevent osteoporosis.
- Rich in potassium and helps retain calcium for bones and joints.
- Natural diuretic and helps increase flow of urine, but does not strain the kidneys.
- Helps the liver to process ammonia (waste from protein digestion), which eases kidneys getting rid of excess fluids.
- Helps produce pigments in the retina of the eye and protects against macular degeneration as wellas night blindness.
- Helps maintain healthy skin, teeth and helps brain function.
- Strengthens our immune system and protects cells from damage.
- Helps wound healing with the vitamin C.
- Medical Daily Healthy Living, by Amy Boulanger
- MNT (medicalnewstoday.com)
- The World’s Healthiest Foods
- Dr. Axe (draxe.com)