How to live Healthy & Long Life With Simple Fruits. Veggies, Nuts, Herbs & Spices

By Nancy Jacobsim (PhD)

How To Live Healthy and Long Life with Simple Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts, Herbs & Spices: An Easy & Complete Guide to Effectively Improve Your Nutrition, Fitness & Longevity.

In the world of constant admonitions by Physicians to eat this and not that, it's hard to know what we are supposed to be putting into our mouths. Science flip-flops, experts disagree and food companies get creative with spin leaving even the best-intentioned among us scratching our heads. What to eat?

 

The single method to solve the problem is by lessening down the no-no list to the diets that measure up as the worst in specific areas. With that in mind, here are our contenders for foods that you might want to kick to the curb if you share a related health concern. Health is the capability of our body systems to function optimally. However, as time goes on, the meaning of health also changed. It cannot be stressed enough that health is the primary thing after which everything else follows. When you maintain good health, everything else falls into place.

 

Advancing into our olden years invokes pictures of sci-fi shows with magical anti-aging drugs and bionic structures. Turns out, the secret to living longer isn't a secret at all. Studies show that making it healthy and happy in old age requires several lifestyle habits, not smoking, having an active social life, getting suitable exercise, maintaining a healthy weight, and eating the right foods. Longevity is somewhat determined by genetics. Nonetheless, a large part of how long you live remains within your control.

 

This book contains lots of amazing, invaluable, and easy but complete guides on how to live a healthy and long life by applying simple home remedies so as to prevent early death. Here are some of the things we covered that you will discover:-

• Anti-aging and Longevity tips on some essential fruits
• Top twenty-one healthiest fruits to add to your daily diet plan with pictorial illustrations.
• Tips on fruits with less natural sugar content with pictorial illustration.
• Tips on fruits with high natural sugar content with pictorial illustration.
• Reasons why you must eat fruits
• Alkalizing your body with simple fresh vegetables
• Tips on top fourteen healthiest vegetables to add to your daily diet plan with pictorial illustration.
• Health and Longevity benefits of some essential nuts
• Tips on the top ten healthiest nuts to add to your daily diet plan with the pictorial illustration.
• Healthy, Healing, and Longevity Powers of Herbs and spices
• Tips on the top fifteen healthiest herbs and spices to add to your daily diet plan with the pictorial illustration.
• Ultimate or superfoods with the pictorial illustration.
• Why you must abandon some of these ten foods and should never, ever eat them.
• And many more…..

Dr Nancy F Jacobsim is a registered dietician and clinical nutritionist. She is an Associate Professor at MNC, Manhattan, Kansas. If you want to reach old age, then make sure to give these tips a try. Scroll up and click the Buy Now button.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nancy Jacobsim (PhD)
• Release date: Nov 29, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223496564

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INTRODUCTION

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n a world of constant admonitions by Physicians to eat this and not that, it’s hard to know what we are supposed to be putting into our mouths. Science flip-flops, experts disagree and food companies get creative with spin leaving even the best-intentioned among us scratching our heads. What to eat?

Single method to solve the problem is through lessening down the no-no list to the diets that measure up as the worst in specific areas. With that in mind, here are our contenders for foods that you might want to kick to the curb if you share a related health concern. Health is the capability of our body systems to function optimally. However, as time goes on, the meaning of health also changed. It cannot be stressed enough that health is the primary thing after which everything else follows. When you maintain good health, everything else falls into place.

Advancing into our olden years invokes up pictures of sci-fi shows with magical anti-aging drugs and bionic structures. Turns out, the secret to living longer isn't a secret at all. Studies show that making it healthily and happily to old age requires several lifestyle habits, not smoking, having an active social life, getting exercise, maintaining a healthy weight, and eating the right foods.

Good health and fitness imply both the mental and physical well-being of an individual. They help to maintain the required energy level to achieve success in life. Regular exercises, proper food, and green vegetables are essential. A proper quantity of fiber, protein, and vitamins should be taken. Good health improves respiratory and cardiovascular health and overall health, and body conditions. Staying active can also help you maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and reduce your risk for some cancers. In other words, staying active and fit are crucial parts of maintaining good health and wellness.

In this book, we discussed some good numbers of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and herbs that have high health, fitness, and healing benefits. Fruit and vegetables are good sources of vitamins and minerals, including folate, vitamin C, and potassium which help in blood, bones and teeth build-up. They are an excellent source of dietary fiber, which can help to maintain a healthy gut and prevent constipation and other digestion problems. Food that is high in fiber can decrease your risks of bowel cancer and other ailments. Eating nuts daily basis will improve your health in many ways, such as helping to reduce diabetes and heart disease risks, in addition to cholesterol and triglyceride levels. This nutritious high-fiber treat may even aid weight loss regardless of its high-calorie count. Herbs and spices on their own are rich in vitamins, minerals, chlorophyll, and natural antibiotics. Herbs have valuable alkalizing benefits. They may also contain pain-relieving properties, aid during digestion, and strengthen the human immune system.

CHAPTER ONE

ANTI-AGING AND LONGEVITY TIPS ON SOME ESSENTIAL FRUITS

Top twenty-one healthiest fruits to add to your daily diet plan.

Tips on fruits with less natural sugars content

Raspberries.

Strawberries.

Blackberries.

Lemons (and limes)

Grapefruit.

Kiwis.

Avocado.

Watermelon.

Cucumber

Berries

Regular consumption of berries is associated with greater longevity because of their rich bioactive compounds known as Flavonoids that made berries to be a bag full of antioxidants. A recent study found that for every 200-gram (or 7-ounce) increase in berries per day, participants enjoyed a 10% lower risk of premature death. Another research showed a close link between eating flavonoid-rich foods like blueberries, and strawberries to reduced risk of all-cause of mortality compared to those who did not consume these foods in significant quantities. Among all fruits, berries tend to be the lowest in carbohydrates. So if you are counting carbohydrates, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries are all excellent choices.

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Berries

Citrus

Some fruits like citrus fruits have been classified as super-foods because of their fiber and vitamin C contents respectively. The vitamin C (ascorbic acid) found in citrus fruits helps destroy free radicals in your body, providing a radiant glow to your skin. A standard sized orange tries to give you about 130% of your daily requirement of this amazing nutrient. Some other essential nourishment provided by citrus fruits comprises folate, lycopene, potassium, vitamin B6, magnesium, niacin, thiamin, and phytonutrients. In case you have rough skin manner, citrus can as well help with those. The potassium in grapefruit helps to smooth wrinkles and age spots and provides a protective shield against Ultra-Violent rays. In addition to the sweetened and bitter taste of some citrus fruits like grapefruit, oranges, lemons, and limes, they are also low in calories and high in water.

Citrus fruits have several compounds that can also help preserve your heart healthy. Their soluble fiber and flavonoids may help raise healthy high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and lower harmful low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and triglycerides. The fruits may bring about reduced high blood pressure-main risk element for heart disease. Most of them contain beta carotene, which your body converts into vitamin A. Citrus fruits are fix-full of nutrients that provide a host of health benefits. People that are conscious of their weight and would probably want to elude many calories will appreciate the fact that citrus fruits are quite low in calories. An average-sized orange gives around 60 to 80 kcal whereas a grapefruit gives around 90 kcal.

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Citus fruits

Kiwis

Technically considered a berry, one kiwi which is easy to find all year has only 6 grams of sugar. This fruit is also an excellent source of Vitamin E, which helps protect the skin from sun damage. Kiwis are very high in Vitamin C and nutritive fibers. They provide a variety of health benefits. This tart fruit can also support heart health, digestion and immunity. They are also a perfect and healthy choice of fruit that is rich in antioxidants.

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Kiwi

Avocado

Avocados are as close to sugar-free as a fruit can be and yes, while they are often prepared and eaten like vegetables, funnily enough, avocados are biologically fruits. The whole of avocado has only one gram of sugar, together with the extra benefit of being loaded with healthy fats. Avocado (Persea Americana) is among the group of the laurel family (Lauraceae), together with cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum), camphor (C. camphora), sassafras (Sassafras albidum), European bay (Laurus nobilis), and California bay or Oregon myrtle (Umbellularia California). Even weirder, avocados are single-seeded berries in the same family as sassafras, bay laurel, and various species of cinnamon trees.

Avocado | Description, Types, History, Uses, & Facts | Britannica

Avocado

Watermelon

Watermelons are succulent fruit and vine-like plant of the gourd family, native to tropical Africa. They are cultivated around the world. Watermelons give vitamin A and several vitamins C and are typically eaten raw. Watermelon is a sue food at all summer functions, and if you have taken it before, it should not a mystery why. Check properly for a ripe one at the grocery stores or farmers market; verify for a watermelon that is deep green in color with a cream- or yellow-colored ground spot. Buy it and give the ground spot a hard tap—to find out if it sounds deep and hollow, it’s ready to devour.

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Watermelon

Cucumber

This is another undercover fruit with a negligible amount of sugar (less than 2 grams per cuke). Cucumbers also provide magnesium, potassium, and Vitamin K, which all play an essential role in the cardiovascular system. Cucumbers are a member of the gourd, or cucurbitaceous, family of plants. Lots of people regularly eat them in savory dishes, such as salad and pickles. Botanically speaking, they are fruits. Cucumbers are one of the most popular produce items grown and sold globally. Cucumbers, melons, and squash are mere fruits with a firm peel and softer, watery inside. And, as you possibly saw, these fruits contain many seeds. Cucumber fruits contain about 95% water. However, like tomatoes and squashes, it is often perceived, prepared, and eaten as a vegetable.

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Cucumbers

Bitter Kola

One fruit with particular healing benefits is African Bitter kola known botanically as Garcinia kola. Bitter kola is a popular agricultural fruit available in large quantities in Western Africa and it is a tree that grows in rainforests. Bitter Kola has been identified as a potent antibiotic that could be effective in the treatment of many deceases. The fruit, seeds, nuts, and bark of the plant have been used for centuries in medicine to treat ailments from coughs to fevers. In the International market, however, it is used extensively in the preparation of herbal drugs either as a stimulant supplement or as herbal remedies as well.

Bitter Kola was eaten mostly by elderly people because of their belief