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FOODS WITH SUPER
POWERS
15 ways you can fill up and feel better
Source:
MensHealth.com
by Brett Bara
We
all want to eat well. Not only healthy food, but The Best food--stuff we
actually enjoy eating. To be The Best, a food has to have superhero qualities.
It's gotta be able to save the girl, disarm the warhead, and look good in
tights, if you know what we mean. You want examples? How about an Italian dinner
that improves your fertility, pancakes that slow the signs of aging, and a filet
mignon that could help lower your risk of heart disease? On our great banquet
table, we're offering everything that's the best on both paper and plate. So eat
until your cholesterol numbers plummet. Until your sex gland glistens. Until
your heart valves hum. And most important, until you're full.
Pour the red-wine
vinegar AND ROTO-ROOTER YOUR PIPES!
Salads are healthy. Salad dressings aren't. Break the stalemate by drizzling
some canola oil and red-wine vinegar over your roughage. Like the vino you drink
straight, red-wine vinegar contains flavonoids, which help keep your arteries
clear by preventing platelets from clumping together. Canola oil contains
monounsaturated fats that lower "bad" (LDL) cholesterol without
affecting "good" (HDL) cholesterol levels.
Block that tumor!
EAT A DOG!
To a nutritionist, the road to dietary damnation is jammed with hot-dog vendors.
But to the average guy, the occasional foot-long is a staple. Fortunately,
there's a way to have your dog and eat it, too.
According to Robert
Cullen, Ph.D., R.D., assistant professor of nutrition at Illinois State
University, the health benefits of certain toppings might cancel out the fat in
a frankfurter. For example, onions have sulfur-containing phytochemicals that
appear to help lower cholesterol and blood pressure and may even suppress tumor
growth; ketchup contains lycopene, which can prevent prostate cancer; and
mustard has turmeric, a spice that, laboratory studies have shown, slows the
progression of tumors. Eat your doggie out of one of those cardboard sleeves,
and keep the condiments off your wristwatch.
Stain your shirt and
CLEANSE YOUR PROSTATE!
By now you know that lycopene may lower your risk of prostate cancer by as much
as 35 percent. (If you don't, you should.) We've found what we think is the best
way to slip it into your diet: Make spaghetti sauce with sliced carrots or
yellow peppers. Not only do cooked tomato products contain the highest levels of
lycopene, but adding foods rich in beta-carotene will guide the lycopene to your
prostate gland. USDA researchers found that when men were simultaneously given
beta-carotene and lycopene supplements, more lycopene ended up in their bodies.
And eating spaghetti is a lot more fun than eating pills.
Drive into the
7-Eleven, and leave with A SECRET WE STOLE FROM THE CHINESE!
Green tea is the handyman of health foods. It does a job on arthritis,
antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and prostate-cancer cells. To score the 4 cups a
day some researchers believe you need, drink your green tea cold and bottled.
Lester Mitscher, Ph.D., a medicinal biochemist at the University of Kansas,
analyzed several different bottled teas and found that Lipton's Green Tea &
Passion Fruit and Snapple Green Tea with Lemon have nearly the same antioxidant
levels as the freshly brewed variety.
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