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It is undeniable that the health of our body is closely associated to any kind of foods that we eat. Well, we can find a lot of nutritious foods, but sometimes choosing some of them that are actually useful for our body is not easy. -- Read also health benefits from vegetables!
In fact, making changes on what we eat is one of the easiest options to maintain our health. Foods are one of the most important essential elements for our body for providing adequate energy to support all daily activities, therefore daily foods that we eat also can give a significant contribution to prevent diseases and encourage better endurance of our body.
Like mentioned before, there are a lot of healthy and nutritious foods that we can find and get easily. And the following are top five nutritious foods that should be listed in the daily menu:
Broccoli
There are a lot of researches and proofs that say broccoli is one of great nutritious foods for cancer-fighting, because broccoli has useful sulfur compounds (sulforaphane), which will be effective to kill and eliminate the growth of the unfriendly bacteria that can cause ulcers. Therefore, more eating broccoli then you can help your body to lower the risk of colon cancer, breast cancer, and even lung cancer.
Furthermore, broccoli also contains a lot of potassium and calcium, which will be useful to maintain the pressure of the blood and promote good bones.
Broccoli is also a high ‘carotene and vitamin C’ food, therefore also good idea to protect your body from unfriendly free radical attack (especially for the brain cells), and also useful to prevent cataract disease.
Blueberries
Blueberries are one of best antioxidant fruits. The antioxidant of blueberries is flavonoid or anthocyanin, which so useful for the health of the heart, memory of the brain cells and can be useful to ward off age-related blindness.
Blueberries also have epicatechins antioxidant, and this antioxidant will be useful for our body to lower the risk of urinary tract infections.
Salmon
According to a study in Sweden, consuming salmon regularly will be helpful to decrease the risk of prostate cancer. You can also reduce the risk of heart attack by 27 % and the risk of death due to heart disease by 17 % by eating at least 2 servings of salmon /week.
Spinach
We can get many advantages by consuming spinach regularly in your daily menu! Spinach has carotenoids that can be useful for our body to eliminate fracture risk and maintain the density of the bone. Furthermore, spinach also can be helpful to protect the performance of the eyes from macular degeneration.
Generally, all types of green vegetables (including spinach) have a high amount of magnesium, folate and potassium which have important function to lower the risk of stroke, maintain the pressure of the blood, and to keep well the performance of lung (reduce the risk of lung cancer, particularly for smokers).
Yogurt
It is also one of good choices if you want to keep well the performance of your bone, especially so recommended for bone development. But the main reason why yogurt so recommended is good bacteria called probiotics. Probiotics can be effective option to eliminate the growth of harmful bacteria, particularly in the intestines.
Harmful bacteria in the intestines can cause several health problems, like gastrointestinal. Therefore, it is so important to control the growth of harmful bacteria in your intestines. Furthermore, consuming yogurt regularly will be great idea for the solution of vaginal yeast infections, ulcer, inflammatory diseases, and urinary tract infections.
