Medicinal Benefits of Whole Foods

For the first 5000 years of civilization, humans relied on foods and herbs for medicine. Only in the past 50 years have we forgotten our medicinal "roots" in favor of patent medicines. While pharmaceuticals have their value, we should not forget the well-documented, non-toxic and inexpensive healing properties of whole foods. The following list is but a sampling of the health benefits from whole foods.

  1. Apple

  2. Asparagus

  3. Avocado

  4. Banana and Plantain

  5. Barley

  6. Beans

  7. Beets

  8. Bell Pepper

  9. Blueberry

  10. Broccoli

  11. Brussels Sprouts

  12. Cabbage (including bok choy)

  13. Carrot

  14. Cauliflower

  15. Celery

  16. Chili Pepper

  17. Cinnamon

  18. Clove

  19. Coffee

  20. Collard Greens

  21. Corn

  22. Cranberry

  23. Cucumbers

  24. Date

 
Spinach. Tops the list, along with other green leafy vegetables, as a food most eaten by people who don't get cancer. A super source of antioxidants and cancer antagonists, containing about four times more beta-carotene and three times more lutein than broccoli, for example. Rich in fiber that helps lower blood cholesterol. Some of it's antioxidants are destroyed by cooking. Eat raw or lightly cooked.

  1. Eggplant

  2. Fenugreek Seed

  3. Flax seeds and oil

  4. Fig

  5. Fish and Fish Oil

  6. Garlic

  7. Ginger

  8. Grape

  9. Grapefruit

  10. Kale

  11. Kiwi Fruit

  12. Lecithin

  13. Lemon

  14. Licorice

  15. Melon (green and yellow, such as cantaloupe and honeydew)

  16. Milk

  17. Mushroom (Asian, including shiitake)

  18. Mustard (including horseradish)

  19. Nuts

  20. Oats

  21. Olive oil

  22. Onion (including chives, shallots, scallions, leeks)

  23. Orange

  24. Parsley

  25. Pineapple

  26. Plum

  27. Potato (white)

  28. Prune

  29. Pumpkin

  30. Raspberry

  31. Rice

  32. Seaweed and Kelp (brown or Laminaria type seaweed) 

  33. Soybean.  

  34. Spinach.  

  35. Strawberry.

  36. Sugar

  37. Sweet Potato (yams) 

  38. Tea (including black, oolong and green tea, not herbal teas)  

  39. Tomato  

  40. Tumeric

  41. Watermelon

  42. Wheat

  43. Yogurt (use only organic yogurt)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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