How to Include 5 Healthy Foods in Your Diet

Natural News in an article touts 5 super foods that are anti inflammatory and strong anti-oxidant. These are two characteristics you want to stress in your daily diet.

Your body produces inflammation naturally on a daily basis. It also gathers free radicals from the environment. If you don’t eliminate them, they lead to debilitating functionality. They lead to dementia, poor eye sight, heart disease, and cancer. Do you need more?

Eating natural foods and getting exercise eliminate both. Animals rarely suffer from dementia or heart disease. There are many cultures in existence that also don’t suffer these maladies and members live to be active to 100 years old.

If you want to create a diet with anti-oxidants and inflammation fighting super foods, you should read Johnny Bowden’s book “150 Healthiest Foods on Earth”. I started my health drive with this book by picking eight foods to include in my diet. I also started eliminating bad foods.

In the Natural News article they list 5 foods that are helpful:

Mustard, Raisins, Nuts, Seasonings, Cole slaw (Cabbage)

Mustard helps fight migraines for which a surprising number of people suffer. Raisins and nuts have anti oxidants as do cabbage and many spices.

In the mornings I have a fruit bowl of apples, bananas, peanuts, raisins, with flax seeds and a half bowl of oat meal. I eat my oat meal dry because I don’t eat dairy. If you put fruit on it or a little syrup (pardon the sugar) it becomes delicious. I add cinnamon and raisins to my oat meal.

I mix mustard in my tuna mix for my wraps. I include tuna, lemon pepper, brown mustard, zucchini, onions, and tomatoes. (notice no mayonnaise). Then I wrap it in wheat tortilla for a great wrap. This is also portable if you want to take it to work.

I put cabbage in my soups. Cabbage and kale are on top of Johnny Bowden’s list of 150 powerful foods as cancer fighters.  My soups are meals in themselves. I use three types of beans, brown rice, yams, potatoes, celery, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, zucchini, kale (when I have it), red peppers, turmeric, and chicken bouillon cubes.

These three meals are great for energy, weight loss, and immune system development. Because of my exercise and recovery needs, I include meat. I eat it in small 3 to 4 ounce portions and have a small steak in the morning with and egg and put a broiled hamburger at night on top of spaghetti with vegetables or on top of brown rice with vegetables.

This is also a very inexpensive diet. Notice there are no canned and few processed foods, no dairy, no sodas, no french fries, no sweet rolls, no bread, and little sugar. Being a dessert freak, I have to admit I make brownies or banana walnut muffins to keep me alive.