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
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
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.
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!!
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.
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!
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.
Kurt!
Whats a matter you!!!!!
Where do they come up with this stuff?Butter is bad?What do you recommend margerine?We are fatter and unhealthier than ever on the low fat High carb scam.The proofs in the pudding!
I attended Dr. Furhman's seminar in EH and he said Mangos and SweeT Potatoes actually
everything but butter,cheese and egg yolk and milk were part of his nutritonal diet
Why say it's cancerous???
What the? Sicne when does vitamin C cause cancer?
Yeah, it's scary wondering about what's on our produce from the grocery store. So why not take matters into your own hands and grow it yourself? So you don't have any gardening experience, and you don't have much free time, and you don't know where to start. Check out a movie called Establishing a Food Forest: The Permaculture Way. It walks you through how to create a forest of food with very little energy input and maximum product output. A brilliant strategy from a brilliant concept... Permaculture. Everybody should have one!
Sue,
Regarding produce from California:
This is from the Truth In Labeling website (written in March '08):
California was the only state that had restrictions on AuxiGro use. But Auxein/Emerald BioAgriculture was chipping away at the restrictions. It would appear, however, than on December 31, 2007, Emerald BioAgriculture did not renew its registration in California, and reliable sources tell us that AuxiGro is no longer sold in the United States.