Lubricate Your Brain

In a study, those who ate at least 5 tablespoons of olive oil a day tested best on memory and problem solving skills. It is the monounsaturated fat that enhances your brainpower, but olive oil also has vitamin E and other antioxidants. Next time, you are in the kitchen, use olive oil instead of corn or soybean oils.

Foods That Help Lungs

Flavonoid naringin, found in white grapefruit appears to shield the lungs from environmental toxins.

Foods rich in vitamin E may also prevent oxidative damage to the lungs.

Alternative practitioners feel that bromelain, an enzyme found in pineapples, also reduce inflammation in the airways.

Protection Against Prostate Cancer

One form of vitamin E, gamma-tocopherol, is extremely important. One study found that men with the highest concentration of gamma-tocopherol had a fivefold lower risk of develping prostate cancer. Gamma-tocopherol may also protect one from developing colorectal cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

Want to Live to Be 100?

Blood levels of antioxidants generally decrease with age. However Italian researchers discovered that centenarians (people 100 years of age and older) needed significantly higher blood levels of vitamin A and vitamin E than their younger counterparts. The researchers concluded that these two vitamins seem to be very important in guaranteeing longevity.

Kiwi for Heart Health

Kiwi is low in sodium and calories and high in potassium. Ripe kiwi contains the proteolytic enzyme actinidin, which aids digestion. Ounce for ounce, kiwifruit contains more vitamin C than an orange. It’s also a good source for two of the most important fat-soluble antioxidants: vitamin E and vitamin A. This combination of both water- and fat-soluble antioxidants has been shown to improve cardiovascular health.

In fact, a 2004 University of Oslo study shows that daily consumption of two or three kiwifruit has similar effects as the daily dosage of aspirin some physicians recommend to improve heart health.

Oils

Did you know?

Keep oils tightly closed and refrigerated. Break a capsule of Vitamin E into each bottle when you 1st open it. Because oil get oxidized when we leave opened for a while and toxic substance form on the oil that may have irritation effect on the intestinal lining.

Carrots - Gold Mine of Nutrients

Carrot juice is said to be a gold mine of nutrients.

Carrot juice is very high in beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is a pigment substance found in plants that can often form into vitamin A.

(Did you know that if you eat a carrot raw, you only get access to about 1% of the available beta carotene? But, when you or your child has a glass of carrot juice, you your system absorbs almost 100% or the beta carotene!)

Another vitamin contained in carrot juice is vitamin E. This vitamin appears in three forms, commonly known as the vitamin E complex.

Carrots also carry other vitamins such as B, C, D, and K, and minerals like calcium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium, and traces of protein.

Juicing a carrot removes the indigestible fiber. Thus, the nutrients in it are available to the body in much larger quantities than if the carrot was eaten whole. This is because many of the nutrients are trapped in the fibre, and while fibre aids digestion, some part of the fibre is indigestible. Thus, you don't get the benefits of the nutrients that are trapped in the indigestible fibre.

Eating just one small carrot every day may help protect you from cancer.