Seven Best and Seven Worst Foods for Health and Longevity
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
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
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.
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)
"WARNING
Foods that are high in Vitamin A
These foods cause cancer
to spread rapidly."
What is the basis for this warning?
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.
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!!