Have you ever felt a bit sluggish? Want a boost in natural energy without pills or drugs? It all comes down to what goes into your mouth. The foods we eat is the key to health and longevity.
Below are some of the best power foods to eat for amazing health and longevity in life. I have chosen natural good food with fiber, healthy fat and great tastes. Try them and see if you notice a difference in your overall health, skin and energy!
#1 Beans
Most people would say you get a runny stomach or flatulence from beans. While that may be true to some extent, there are far more benefits. Beans is amazingly rich in fiber. Eating just small serving of beans will give your over 10 grams of great essential dietary fiber!
Beans help move the stomach, by having both insoluble and soluble fiber. You should drink plenty of water to help keep the beans moving inside your GI tract (intestines and stomach).
Beans also help regulate insulin levels, by releasing carbohydrates slower into the blood stream. This is a great “free way” to help control that sugar crave and keep a steady blood-sugar level.
#2 Oatmeal (with blueberries on top if you like!)
Need a morning boost of energy? Try oatmeal. It has extremely good properties and slow digesting carbohydrates. Oatmeal contains lots of vitamins and minerals. Tastes great with some fruit or berries (blueberries for example).
Oatmeal will help keep your skin healthier, because it help control the pH levels of your skin. A study from 2007 showed that skin greatly benefits from oatmeal and helps with anti-inflammatory properties.
Other benefits of oatmeal:
- Helps with weight loss
- Helps deal with diabetes
- Improves heart health
- May help improve colon cancer (study of fiber/colon cancer)
Begin your day with a bowl of oatmeal and reap the long-term benefits of this power food!
#3 Onions (Allium foods)
Onion contain phytochemicals, vitamin C and vitamin A, improving the immunesystem. Onions help regulate blood sugar, because they contain chromium. Onions help lower production of LDL (aka bad cholesterol) and keeps your heart healthy. Onions may have a positive impact on cancer, because of quercetin. Onions help reduce the risk of gastric ulcers.
#4 Fruits
Fruit it a great source of minerals and vitamins. They help prevent vitamin deficiencies. They may help reduce diseases. To maintain bodily health you should eat fruits and vegetables. Folate is helpful in forming red blood cells and females who are pregnant are recommended to eat foods rich in folate.
More Health Benefits of Fruit:
- Helps reduce stroke risk and diabetes type-2.
- May help agains cancer.
- Helps with overall health and energy levels.
- Try to eat fruits every day to keep a healthy body.
#5 Chia seeds
Chia seeds are known as a superfood. Chia seeds contains lots of energy and nutrients for a health boost.
Chia seeds are very rich and dense in:
- Protein
- Omega-3
- Antioxidants
- Vitamins and minerals
- Fiber
Chia seeds may help with:
- Digestion
- Healthy skin
- Control blood-sugar
- Boost energy and metabolism
- Helps fight cancer
- Keeps your organs healthy
#6 Salmon
Salmon is known as “brain food” because it is said to help improve the memory. Salmon is rich in Omega-3’s, an essential fatty acid that many people do not eat enough of. A recommendation outlined by many health professionals is to eat oily fish about 3 times per week in order to get the right amount of Omega-3’s.
#7 Ginger
Ginger is one of the best spices to eat for anti-inflammation and overall health benefits. It is super high in natural anti-oxidants and gingerol. Many “chinese medicine treatments”, use ginger as their main ingredient to naturally heal the body. It has been shown to help with osteoporosis, nausea, blood pressure and indigestion. These symptoms can be soothed with ginger.
Ginger helps control blood sugar levels and can therefore help with mental clarity. Recent studies even show that ginger potentially could help prevent cancer and Alzheimer disease. Studies I’d really like to know more about in the future.
You’ll also see ginger tooted as a great herb to use for treatment against infections. Many use it as “medicine” for a cold and other infections.
#8 Avocado
An amazingly tasty and health “fruit” for use in a salad for example. Regularly consuming avocados may lead to an improved lifespan. One of the main features of avocados is the ability to help with absorption of minerals and vitamins. Because of the healthy fat content in avocado, it helps absorb nutrients more efficiently. Some claims of helping with arthritis and soothe knee pain has been shown.
Other report of benefits in the fight agains cancer. Because of the high anti-oxidant content avocados help prevent diseases and help keep blood sugar levels under control. Mentions of eye health improvements have been reported as well, because of the lutein & zeaxanthin.
#9 Yoghurt / Kefir
Probiotic Yoghurt or Kefir, rather is an amazing food to boost the good bacteria in your gut. This is one of the staple foods to help with leaky gut for example. Other benefits have been reported such as:
- Boosting the Immune system
- Help Heal Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Increase the strength of bones
- Help aid with allergies
- Improve Lactose Digestion
- Kill Candida
- Support Detoxification
You should know kefir is not the same as yoghurt, because there are probiotics in kefir that help with the colon. The 50 good bacteria contained in kefir makes it the health bomb that it is.
#10 Walnuts
There have been several health benefits connected to walnuts, such as help reduce metabolic syndrome. A group of people who ate an oz of walnuts daily for 2-3 months greatly help reduce the symptoms of metabolic syndrome. They also didn’t gain as much fat as other groups during the same time.
Walnuts may also help with type-2 diabetes and help prevent cancer. The anti-oxidants, vitamins and minerals in walnuts help fight oxidative stress, which can lead to disease or auto-immune problems.
These healthy nutrients that are most prominent in walnuts include:
- omega-3 fatty acids
- phytonutrients including tannins, phenolic acids, and flavonoids
- quinones
- anti-inflammatory phytonutrients.
- protein
Walnuts help increase bone density, memory and lower cholesterol.
To Conclude
There are many more great foods, but these are some of the foods to help increase your over all health and well-being. Eating these at least each week will help ensure your health is better taken care of. Fruits and vegetables should be the staple of any meal plan or diet. Unless you are allergic to any of the foods, enjoy them as much as possible!
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