Why should anyone eat super foods to stay healthy, what foods are they, and why are they called super foods?
With super foods, you get unusually large amounts of nutrition with relatively fewer calories per nutrient. For example, buffalo delivers twice the protein in one calorie as lean steak. This allows you to pack more nutrition into your calorie limit for each meal - contributing greatly to staying healthy.
There are basically three categories of super foods to make it easier to stay healthy:
o Super high nutrient foods
o Unusually extra healthy foods to always include often
o Supplements to be taken to stay healthy. (as opposed to the supplements for helping to get over an illness)
The high nutrient super foods for staying healthy include:
o Quinoa
o Goji Berry
o Spirulina
o Hemp Protein
o Agave Nectar
o Stevia
o Wheat Grass
o Acai Berry
Common foods that are extra high in great nutrients to stay healthy include:
o Walnuts
o Bison - Buffalo
o Pumpkin
o Oatmeal
o Spinach
o Beans and Legumes
o Blueberries
o Broccoli
o Wild Salmon
o Tomato
o Skinless Turkey Breast
Supplements to consider to stay healthy should include:
o Co Enzyme Q 10
o Creatine
o Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA)
o Bee Pollen
o Whey Protein
o Omega-3 Fatty Acids
o Flaxseed Freshly Ground
Here is a super powder high level list of 17 supplements that will practically make you Bullet Proof!
Cognition, Memory, Consciousness, and Brainpower
o Blueberry Extract w/Pomegranate - Improves absorption of the free radical fighting blueberries.
o Dmae/Ginko
o Vinpocetone Improves oxygen uptake
o Ashwagandha Studies show this destroys beta-amyloid plaque in the brain which is a causative factor in Alzheimer's disease.
o Benfotiamine Fat-soluble to easily penetrate inside our cells to normalize blood sugar, blocks blood vessel damage and inflammatory conditions caused by glycation.
Fat Burning and Blood Health
o Omega 3s-EPA/DHA - This helps the liver mitochondria to properly burn fatty acids to prevent dangerous amounts of triglycerides accumulating in the blood - contributing to preventing artery blockages.
o Green Tea Extract is 25 to100 times more potent than vitamins C or E. There is no need to drink 18 + cups of green tea a day.
o Chromium keeps blood sugar levels regulated - helping prevent insulin resistance.
Sleep
o Melatonin
o Tryptophan
Liver Health
o Silibinin
o Silymarin
Muscle Building
o Branched Chain Amino Acids
o Carnosine declines with age (as so many things do) resulting in contributing to muscle mass and function decline as well as cross-linking of proteins and sugars that form non-functioning structures in our bodies.
o Creatine
Additional Supplements
o Selenium plays a major role in DNA repair and detoxification of heavy metals. With high doses of vitamin C you can actually reduce your absorption of Selenium.
o Grapeseed Extract w/ Resveratrol is the key component of the: French Paradox".
Four great foods that are available all year long which are eaten raw are:
o Avocados
o Dried Fruit
o Lemons
o Oranges
Remember our pancreas produces about half our healing and digestive enzymes our body requires to stay healthy. The other half has to come from what we eat. Since cooking and heating food always destroys all its enzymes, to stay healthy we are left with eating raw nuts, fruits and vegetables for part of our meals to be certain to supply enough enzymes.
In many ways, you could even call raw food a form of super foods. Of course, to stay healthy it is also wise to consider taking some enzymes supplements from plant sources. Because of the nutrient power of raw foods, we should all strive to eat about 1/3 raw each day just to stay healthy.
Dave Mallegg
My blog ( http://davemallegg.com ) is about staying healthy with the latest news on fun health and exercise including state of -the-art innovations on the most effective, efficient time saving exercise techniques. You will also learn the simplified version of good nutrition after I shift through all the multitude of health confusion and myths. From Dave Mallegg's 50 years of passion.
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