Best Vegetables: Among all kinds of vegetables, those that can provide abundant nutrients and have anti-cancer effects are considered the best. According to test data from Japanese nutrition experts, in terms of cancer inhibition rate, asparagus ranks first at 93.7%, followed by cauliflower at 92.3%, cabbage at 91.4%, broccoli at 90.8%, celery at 83.7%, eggplant at 74%, sweet pepper at 55.5%, carrot at 46.5%, shepherd's purse at 35.4%, endive at 34.8%, mustard greens at 32.9%, daylily at 32.6%, snow cabbage at 29.8%, tomato at 22.8%, green onion at 16.3%, garlic at 15.8%, cucumber at 14.3%, and Chinese cabbage at 2.4%.
Best Beauty Foods: In recent years, beauty experts at home and abroad recommend the following foods: 1. Warm water, drinking 8-10 cups a day can keep the skin hydrated and radiant; 2. Green vegetables such as amaranth, kale, and spinach, which contain large amounts of vitamins and minerals; 3. Watermelon and Hami melon, which replenish water and provide nutrition; 4. Lean meat, chicken, and fish, providing rich protein and iron; 5. Coarse grains and beans, supplying special nutrients needed for the skin; 6. Skim milk, low-fat milk, and cheese, with low calories but high calcium content, can soften the skin and strengthen bones; 7. Citrus fruits, containing abundant vitamin C, prevent facial capillary rupture and pigment spot formation; 8. Pigskin, rich in collagen and elastin, can enhance skin elasticity.
Best Brain-Protecting Foods: Not all foods are beneficial to the brain. Fried food and fatty meat, which are rich in peroxidized lipids compounds, can change the walls of blood vessels in the brain, thereby affecting blood flow and causing cerebral ischemia. At this point, "reducing foods" with components like carotene and superoxide dismutase can stop vascular changes and protect the brain. What belongs to "reducing foods"? Experts believe that spinach, leek, pumpkin, green onion, kale, bell pepper, pea pod, tomato, carrot, small green vegetable, soybean, garlic leaf, and celery among vegetables, walnuts, peanuts, pistachios, cashews, pine nuts, almonds among shell foods, as well as brown rice meals and pig liver soup can be remembered and selected.
Best Heart-Protecting Foods: German expert trials have proven that eating 50 grams of fish daily can reduce the risk of heart disease by 40%, especially deep-sea fish. Wild purslane has also been favored by medical scientists in recent years. According to research by American experts, purslane contains abundant omega-3 fatty acids, which can inhibit the production of plasma cholesterol and triglycerides in the human body, and increase the synthesis of prostaglandins by vascular cells, while reducing thromboxane A2 (a powerful vasoconstrictor and platelet coagulant), lowering blood viscosity, preventing platelet aggregation, coronary artery spasm, and thrombosis, thus effectively preventing coronary heart disease. Moreover, it contains a large amount of potassium, which can lower blood pressure, suppress myocardial excitability, and slow down the heart rate to protect the heart.
Best Acid-Correcting Foods: Meat, eggs, rice, noodles, sugar, etc., produce anionic acid radicals during metabolism in the body, making the blood acidic. However, these foods are rich in nutrients and have good taste, so they are very popular. To prevent becoming an acidic constitution (70% of diseases occur in people with an acidic constitution), one needs to consume a certain amount of alkaline food to offset excessive acidic components and restore normal acidity and alkalinity, such as vegetables, fruits, milk, tea, etc. Among them, kelp has the highest alkalinity and is known as the "king of alkaline foods." Therefore, eating kelp 2-3 times a week can maintain normal blood acidity and alkalinity and achieve disease prevention and strengthening the body.
Best Meat: According to reports by French nutrition experts, poultry meat contains no less fat than livestock meat (pork, beef, mutton, etc.), but its chemical structure is similar to olive oil, which is beneficial to the heart. German nutrition experts call chicken "the best source of protein," and its fat content is much lower than beef. Surveys show that people who eat skinless chicken twice a week have half the risk of developing cancer. In addition, rabbit meat and fish meat have the same beautifying, brain-nourishing, and heart-protecting effects as poultry meat, and are better than livestock meat, also belonging to the best meat choices. [Grassroots Health] sourced from Grassroots Utopia http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1656725375