Seven Best and Seven Worst Foods for Health and Longevity

From the library of Dr. Fuhrman.com:

Because food has the power to heal, my patients often ask me for my top list of healthy food – the anti-oxidant foods, heart healthy foods, and nutritious foods that are central to the Eat To Live program. These high nutrient foods, consumed regularly, will contribute to your health and longevity. What you eat -- now and when you were growing up -- dramatically affects the state of your health. The effect is cumulative, influencing everything from the amount of energy you have (or lack), to your emotional state, medical condition, and ultimately longevity

Top Seven Foods for Good Health and Longevity
  • Black raspberries
  • Strawberries
  • Blueberries
  • Flax Seeds
  • Green Leafy Vegetables
  • Tomatoes
  • Broccoli sprouts
The healthy and nutritious foods are high antioxidant foods, primarily fruits and vegetables. I selected these healthy foods because they contain the most powerful phytochemicals and anthocyanins which illustrate strong inhibition of chemocarcinogens.

Other foods with high antioxidant and high anti-cancer potential include walnuts, sunflower seeds, pomegranates, beets, cabbage, peppers, and parsley. Make your diet strongly cancer-protective and longevity-favorable by including these highly beneficial, nutritious foods.

A good way to think about nutritious food: Produce is the most important health care your money can buy.

Food also has the potential to harm, and these are effective foods for those attempting to die younger. One of my daughters calls this list the Seven Foods of Death.

Worst Seven Foods for Health and Longevity
  • Butter
  • Cheese
  • Potato Chips and French Fries
  • Doughnuts
  • Salt
  • Sausage, hot dogs
  • Pickled, smoked or barbequed meat
Foods high in saturated fat and trans fat are consistently associated with high cancer rates. Cheese and butter typically contain over ten times as much saturated fat as fish and white meat chicken and turkey.

Salt has been consistently linked to stomach cancer and stroke, even in populations that eat diets low in saturated fat.

Add the carcinogenic potential from heated and overcooked oils (usually trans containing) delivered in doughnuts and fries with the powerful cancer inducing properties of carbohydrates cooked at high heat (acrylamide formation) and you have a great cancer potion.

Needless to say, I advise people to avoid the foods on my “worst list” entirely.

The best foods to eat are the healthy, nutritious fresh fruits and vegetables. By making these antioxidant foods the major portion of your diet, you can protect yourself against cancer and other serious diseases. As you extend your youthful vigor into later years, you have contributed to your longevity by Eating to Live with a healthy, nutritious diet.
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Yu Dai - October 7, 2006 7:51 PM

WARNING
Foods that are high in Vitamin A
These foods cause cancer
to spread rapidly.

Liver, 3.5 oz (10,602 units)
Sweet potato, 4 oz (2,487 units)
Carrot, 1 (2,025 units)
Mango, 1 (805 units)
Spinach, 1/2 cup, (737 units)
Cantaloupe, 1 cup (515 units)
Apricots, 10 halves (253 units)
Milk, 1 cup (149 units)
Egg yolk (84 units)
Cheese, 1 ounce (60 units)

Primrose Lim - December 10, 2006 7:55 AM

"WARNING
Foods that are high in Vitamin A
These foods cause cancer
to spread rapidly."

What is the basis for this warning?

Sue - March 22, 2007 1:03 PM

All this "healthy" food isn't going to do a bit of good unless one can find a source that isn't contaminated, which is no small trick anymore. You want to BEWARE of something--don't, under any cirmstances, eat produce from California. The majority of fruit and vegetables produced in the state of California are sprayed with Auxigro (see the Truth in Labeling site for more info), which is a form of MSG (Monosodium Glutamate)and causes more health problems than you can believe. I wouldn't have believed it myself, but I developed an intolerance to MSG about 10 years ago and it's something I have to live with every day. So be very careful where you buy your fruits and vegetables.

cynthia - October 8, 2007 8:13 PM

may i ask you a question? my boyfriend is a 'germaphobe' (fear of germs) and he's anal about cleanliness. he wont even freeze an open bacon pack because he says pork has the deadliest food disease there is and you can die of the bacteria it gives. how true is this??? please im dying to know. thank you!!

Dorrel - September 12, 2008 5:21 PM

God says pork should not be eaten because he made them to be the scavangers of the earth. The white part in the bacon that you think is fat, is actually concentrated pus. Pigs do not have pores in their skin so the dead white cells have no where to go except concentrate in the body. God made our body and He knows that pork was not to enter the human body. Sometimes doctors cannot determine why we are sick because we are carrying diseases meant for pigs. The same is for all Shell fish, they are scavangers of the ocean, not for human consumption. They were meant to eat the poop from the floor of the ocean. Do you remember the scean in Nemo where the crabs were fighting for food around the septic pipes? What do you think they were eatint? Read the Book of Leviticus chapter 11 in the Bible. There you will see what God said we can and cannot eat. He made us, He knows how best to take care of the body that belongs to Him.

becky - September 16, 2008 5:09 PM

I scoured the internet to back up your factual statement about the white stuff on bacon being pus.... I cannot find anything. Can you please tell me how you came to this conclusion? Thanks!

kurt - November 1, 2008 10:56 AM

Dorrel,

This is a site about food safety, not Bible nonsense. Stick to science, no mythology. Dead white cells in pigs are secreted just as humans do, in the urine.

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