November 2008
Monthly Archive
Healthy Eating Part 2
We previously looked at healthy recreational rest and relaxation in the last article, so now we’ll focus on some more healthy eating.
In our previous look at healthy eating we covered what the bad foods are and what they do to you and your body. So to make up the balance in this post, I’m going focus on good food and the kinds of things that you really should be looking at to be including in your new, healthy diet. While many vegetables make up a big proportion of the right foods for you to eat, there are some veggies that are better than others. In particular I’m going to look at one of the great superfoods of the moment and what has become the number one most popular vegetable in the United States, broccoli.
Broccoli is what we know it as, but actually its true name is calabrese. True broccoli is the small purple sprouting variety that you don’t normally see in the shops and supermarkets. The popular large tightly budded head of calabrese flowers is what we’ve come to know as broccoli, so I’ll carry on referring to it the way most people know it to avoid confusion.
So what makes broccoli a superfood?
Well for one, it contains powerful antioxidants which help our bodies to mop up the free radicals that cause cell damage and promote cancerous cell growth. Strangely, the power of broccoli as a cancer fighting and preventing source is increased several-fold when you cook it together with tomatoes as the constituents of tomatoes bind with broccoli to make super cancer-busting compounds that are some of the most powerful known.
Added to the fact that broccoli is a great source of vitamins and minerals as well as dietary fiber and it is no wonder this all-round vegetable is America’s most popular.
So do your body a big, big favor and add broccoli to your weekly shopping list.
