Raw stuff - Avocados

Potassium in avocados relieves fatigue, depression and poor digestion.
It contains vitamin A, B, C and E which make it an anti-cancer food.
Contains monounsaturated oil. It stimulates production of collagen. Good for circulation, skin and fertility.

Raw stuff - Oats

What do you find in humble oats? Protein, polyunsaturated fats, B vitamins, calcium, potassium, magnesium, silicon and vitamin E. Soothing to the digestive tract, they are easily digested, being one of the best low-GL food ever, helps in regulating sugar metabolism, so supergreat for diabetics.
It will fight your depression, will reduce your cholesterol - about 20% if you go with a daily bowl of oats.
Dont't buy the instant ones...choose the whole version.

Raw stuff - Garlic

Research has proven: garlic reduces cholesterol, lowers blood pressure, stops blood from clotting and improves circulation (maybe that's why vampires dislike it, huh?).
Galic is a powerful antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, anti-cancer, helps in relieving chest infections and stomach bugs (if any).
How much? Minimum a clove each day.

Raw stuff - Carrots

Carrots are very rich in betacarotene - one supplies enough for a day.
Anti-cancer properties, especially of the bowel. Pureed helps for infant diarrhoea, when juiced, it helps with liver problems. It contains vitamins C and E, which ease circulatory disease, chest infections and skin and eye problems.
Eat lightly cooked carrots two or three times a week.

Raw stuff - Cabbage

Cabbage contains iron, chlorophyll, vitamin C, sulphur compounds and healing mucilaginous substances. Powerfully anti-cancer, vital for anaemia, stomach inflammation and ulcers. Cabbage protects against stress, infection and heart disease. Best eaten slightly steamed

Raw stuff - Apples

The vitamins, minerals and vitamins from raw food can be better used by body in metabolic processes than the equivalent sinthetic ones (in the form of pills).

Apples with their content of pectin help in eliminating the heavy metals found in polluted environments. Pectin and vitamin C in apples reduce cholesterol. Malic and tartaric acids relieve indigestion and break down fats. Two apples a day help with arthritis, rheumatism and gout. When grated, apples stop diarrhoea. 

Raw stuff - Bananas

Lots of things in a banana: potassium, zinc, iron, folic acid, calcium, vitamin B6, fibres. Good for digestion and menstrual difficulties; athletes love it.
Good for young and old. With apples, rice and dry toast it makes up the BRAT diet, the ideal treatment for sickness and diarrhoea.

Raw stuff - Onions

Raw onions protect the circulatory system and act as powerful antibiotic. Good for chest, stomach and urinary infections. Have diuretic activity which help with arthritis, rheumatism and gout.
Research shows that half of raw onion a day raises the amount of good fats in the blood by 30%.

Raw stuff - Oily fish

The best source of the essential fatty acids, those you need to produce new healthy efficient cells of all types. These essential fatty acids are badly needed during pregnancy, breastfeeding if you really want your children's brain to develop properly.
When you get older you dont stop eating oily fish, because the essential fatty acids maintain brain function, and help in treating dyslexia, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
They are the most important source of vitamin D - essential for strong bones and many hormone functions. Oily fish are great for the relief of arthritis.

Superfoods

 

 

 

 

Superfoods - Garlic

I am not sure why they call the superfoods...as when they describe what the super-foods do is only a normal thing for health ... i thought that calling them 'food' would be enough...anyway...
I have here a little booklet  (Esme Floyd,1) and there are some interesting facts from the superfoods chapter:

Garlic 
what:

1. reduces the risk of stomach and colon can 
2. helps lowering blood cholesterol
3. helps reducing blood pressure

how much
    only 2-3 cloves a day....not so much, huh?
She's not the only one recommending the daily garlic.
Weil (2) praises as well the natural antibiotic properties of garlic, and the effect of blood pressure lowering due to allicin.
 Holford (3) recommends as well garlic as a strong anti-bacterial and lowering of cholesterol. Garlic thins the blood preventing the blood clots and thus the clogging of arteries...how ? ' garlic does this by stopping platelets in the blood from sticking to each other'...a chemical called 'ajoene' seems to be responsible for this effect.
Now, whether it's allicin or ajoene..who cares...the garlic must be in your daily diet.

But the real catch here is this: studies recommend the real stuff, not the supplements/extracts/ pills. 3 raw cloves  a day seems to reduce clotting with 20%...
In Romania we say that garlic is great for health, but for sure a killer for romance...
well, there's some hope there: you can eat your 3 daily cloves in your cooked food...as the effect would be the same, but for sure the 'sweet aroma' wont drive your lover away.


(1) Esme Floyd - '1001 healthy eating miracles'
(2) Patrick Holford - 'Say no heart disease'
(3) Andrew Weil - 'Eating well for optimum health'