Why Fruits & Vegetables are so Important

Do you realize that you could have a heart attack at some point in the future? Research data is very strong and very powerful that the more fruits and vegetables that you eat, the less likely you are to have that heart attack. Hum, do you even want to know what research data says about the cigarettes and beer that most people consume?

Many of us will face the diagnosis of cancer in the future, and again the data is overwhelming that a diet high in fruits and vegetables is associated with a marked reduction in the risk of cancer. The reason for this is the balance of Mother Nature in fruits and vegetables - all of those thousands of antioxidants and other phytonutrients that work together to enhance our good chemistry and to protech against the bad.

What is an example of bad chemistry? The phenomenon of oxidative stress. When you burn a log in your fireplace; and if you don't have a screen, those sparks burn holes in your carpet. Similarly, when you burn sugar, fat, and carbohydrates in your body, you generate "sparks" call free radicals-billions of them. They bombard your body from the inside out, particularly at a cellular level. Antioxidants and other phytonutrients from fruits and vegetables help protect against the oxidative stress caused by thos free radicals.

Our DNA is damaged everyday in every cell because we are generating billions of these free radicals. If your body fails to repair DNA damage properly, it ends up as a mutation, and we all know the association of mutations with cancers. Similarly, if free radicals damage the tips of your chromosomes, you increase the rate at which you age - nobody wants to age more rapidly.
I know I don't.