Archive for December 29th, 2011
A Step In The Right Direction
How are you starting 2012? Any new year resolutions? Have you been thinking of your health lately? Our household have been consciously been watching our food and nutrition intake for a while now. One of my Christmas presents includes a book on longevity – hundreds of ways to live to be 100. It’s always interesting to increase the knowledge of what’s healthy and what nutritional properties each food groups have. There are some “oh yeah” moments but there are those “that food does that” kind of moments as well.
Age causes oxidation which literally mean rusting of our bodies and they show up as ailments, clogged arteries, heart conditions, diabetes, liver diseases, cancers, or painful joints. So to counter that rusting process, it is highly recommended that we take in some anti-rust nutrition, or antioxidant to neutralize the free radicals that causes these ailments.
Blueberries, available widely in North America, has one of the highest rate of antioxidant properties. Ten times the antioxidant properties than blueberries are the acai berries, from the Brazilian rain forest. These are available in capsules or frozen form. In whichever way we like to take this amazing little fruit to supplement your daily diet, find one and try it. You’ll be amazed.