Food Chart (Know the Benefits of the Food You Eat)
Posted on January 18, 2007
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I couldn’t help but share an excellent food chart that a friend passed on to me (thanks, Viv!). The name of the person who compiled the list was not written, though.
I was delighted to find out that beets, cabbage, carrots, chestnuts, olive oil, and peanuts, which we have in abundance promote weight loss. And I thought only green tea would help (see related post). Find out more below.
- APPLES: Protect your heart, Prevent constipation, Block diarrhea, Improve lung capacity, Cushion joints
- APRICOTS: Combat cancer, Control blood pressure, Save your eyesight, Shield against Alzheimer’s, Slow aging process
- ARTICHOKES: Aid digestion, Lower cholesterol, Protect your heart, Stabilize blood sugar, Guard against liver disease
- AVOCADOS: Battle diabetes, Lower cholesterol, Help stop strokes, Control blood pressure, Smoothen skin
- BANANAS: Protect your heart, Quiet a cough, Strengthen bones, Control blood pressure, Block diarrhea
- BEANS: Prevent constipation, Help hemorrhoids, Lower cholesterol, Combat cancer, Stabilize blood sugar
- BEETS: Control blood pressure, Combat cancer, Strengthen bones, Protect your heart, Aid weight loss
*BLUEBERRIES: Combat cancer, Protect your heart, Stabilize blood sugar, Boost memory, Prevent constipation
- BROCCOLLI: ,Strengthens bones, Saves eyesight, Combats cancer, Protects your heart, Controls blood pressure
- CABBAGE: Combats cancer, Prevents constipation, Promotes weight loss, Protects your heart, Helps in relief of hemorrhoids
- CANTALOUPES: Save eyesight, Control blood pressure, Lower cholesterol, Combat cancer, Support immune system
- CARROTS: Save eyesight, Protect your heart, Prevent constipation, Combats cancer, Promote weight loss
- CAULIFLOWER: Protects against prostate cancer, Combats breast cancer, Strengthens bones, Banishes bruises, Guards against heart disease
- CHERRIES: Protect your heart, Combat Cancer, End insomnia, Slow aging process, Shield against Alzheimer’s
- CHESTNUTS: Promote weight loss, Protect your heart, Lower cholesterol, Combat cancer, Control blood pressure
- CHILI PEPPERS: Aid digestion, Soothe sore throat, Clear sinuses, Combat cancer, Boost immune system
- FIGS: Promote weight loss, Help stop strokes, Lower cholesterol, combat cancer, Control blood pressure
*FISH: Protects your heart, Boosts memory, Protects your heart, Combats cancer, Supports immune system
- FLAX: Aids digestion, Battles diabetes, Protects your heart, Improves mental health, Boosts immune system
- GARLIC: Lowers cholesterol, Controls blood pressure, Combats cancer, Kills bacteria, Fights fungus
- GRAPEFRUIT: Protects against heart attacks, Promotes Weight loss, Helps stops strokes, Combats Prostate Cancer, Lowers cholesterol
- GRAPES: Save eyesight, Conquer kidney stones, Combat cancer, Enhance blood flow, Protect your heart
- GREEN TEA: Combats cancer, Protects your heart, Helps stops strokes, Promotes Weight loss, Kills bacteria
- HONEY: Heals wounds, Aids digestion, Guards against ulcers,Increases energy, Fights allergies
- LEMONS: Combat cancer, Protect your heart, Control blood pressure, Smoothen skin, Stop scurvy
- LIMES: Combat cancer, Protect your heart, Control blood pressure, SmootheN skin, Stop scurvy
- MANGOES: Combat cancer, Boost memory, Regulate thyroid, Aid digestion, Shield against Alzheimer’s
- MUSHROOMS: Control blood pressure, Lower cholesterol, Kill bacteria, Combat cancer, Strengthen bones
*OATS: Lower cholesterol, Combat cancer, battles diabetes, Prevents constipation, Smoothen skin
- OLIVE OIL: Protects your heart, Promotes weight loss, combats cancer, Battles diabetes, Smoothens skin
*ONIONS: Reduce risk of heart attack, Combat cancer, Kill bacteria, Lower cholesterol, Fight fungus
*ORANGES; Support immune systems, Combat cancer, Protect your heart, Straighten respiration
- PEACHES: ,Prevent constipation, Combat cancer, Help stop strokes, Aid digestion, Help in relief of hemorrhoids
*PEANUTS: Protect against heart disease, Promote weight loss, Combat prostate cancer, Lower cholesterol, aggravates diverticulitis
- PINEAPPLE: Strengthens bones, Relieves colds, Aids digestion, Dissolves warts, Block diarrhea
PRUNES: Slow aging process, Prevent constipation, Boost memory, Lower cholesterol, Protect against heart diesease.
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I am drinking green tea as I am reading this.
But hey, you forgot cake, ice cream, pizza, potato chips, french fries… ay mali! Weight loss ba ang pinopromote?
Interesting list. Thanks for sharing.
mas effective pa daw na pampagising ang apple kesa kape.tapos if u want to suppress your appetite just eat an apple.
ung pomegranate din,it has antioxidants saka parang anti-cancer din.
but this is really interesting.thanks for sharing!
Hello Dine,
What an interesting blog you have. Nakakatakot, actually. Panay health issues kasi. =)
Great list! My breakfast everyday consists of oatmeal. I also try to have fruits as my snack instead of chips or a sandwich.
More power, Dine
Hb00
I can really use shedding off 30 lbs. I don’t know but I find it virtually impossible to lose weight here in Manila
But green tea I’ve gone back to drinking regularly once again.
Great list to remind us of what should we include in our daily diet. Today, I have 4 in your list in my lunch bag. Not bad huh.
Nasan yung chocolates?
thanks for a visit and comments on the Janice Del Rosario case. She will be soon the legal problem of the Philippines, since her deportation is going on, lest she files another of her delay dally tactics, using the kids as a “humanitarian” case.
Anyways, I think Garlic in any form is one good food for LDL control too. It may be offensive to some.
haha. Maybe that’s why I don’t gain over 120lbs… I ate lots of fruits, esp. apples and pineapples…
hi ate D..
maybe I should start eating fruits again.. I dont know why I suddenly stopped eating apples and bananas… Maybe that’s why I started gaining weight.. I thought that you can substitute chips for apples.. hehehe..
Thanks for the list mommy D..
—karmi
Hmm.. magkakasundo tayo. I’m a vegetarian kasi eh.
How about ginger? I dont know the medical benefits of it but I use it as anti-bacterial.. mixed with hot or cold water.
nice post, dine! i used to drink beet-carrot-apple juice everyday but now I switch to odwalla juice (super food). it has wheat grass, fruits, spirulina, algae, green tea, broccoli spinach, odorless garlic…and more.
I eat everything on the list except Flax. What is that? hehehe
This post gave me a yearning for peaches
Hi. Very useful info .. thanks. And hey, you scooped the Inquirer Magazine. Today’s issue is all about food, the losing weight bandwagon, diets, champion meals, etc. I mean, your blog came out earlier than the mag.
Hey, I tagged you again. I hope you don’t mind writing about five things that happened to you because of blogging. All best!
I am an apple and banana a day guy M to F so I guess I’m not doing too bad. Definitely a list worth keeping
thanks, ALL! for the informative, to the entertaining to the funny comments!
Hey, this is useful tip! Okay if I use this in my other blog viva woman for bloggertips?
sexy mom says: sure dear! and hey! viva woman (http://www.vivawoman.net/) is a very interesting and useful site. i will endorse it to my friends.
[...] I saw this very interesting foodchart over at The D Spot from Sexy Mom which details which food promote weight loss and smoothen skin and asked her if I can share it here. Beets: Promotes weight loss, controls blood pressure, combats cancer, trengthens bones, protects your heart. [...]
I lost 30 lbs by drinking green tea, cutting out ice cream and all sweets, eating more fruit and a salad for lunch every day, yoga, walking at least 1/2 mile every day. The pounds shed off quickly. It works. I went from a tight 12 to a loose 10.
We are what we eat.
What is the source for the food benefits chart? I need to know to pass on to my friends.
I agree with oranges that promotes our immune system, i am drinking it at the moment due to severe cold.
But. (hehe)may But ako.
Yung peanuts, does not lower cholesterol, daw?
Kasi here in France, they do not use that much because of high cholesterol content. I once bought a bottle as bread spread, ang sigaw ni Frenchman, kala mo nakakita ng multo! even sa kare kare ko, ayaw niya gamit ko, kasi daw kataas ng cholesterol non!
dont know, so far di ko na lang touch yung peanut butter…
thanks, katiann – that’s a feat! as to the source of the chart, i asked and asked, but could not really find the source. it was passed on by a friend, who passed on…
francesca – i hope you are well now. as to peanuts and other nuts, i take them in moderation.
what a list! ...very informative talaga! Kaso I have a comment, kasi sabi d2 sa lugar namin, avocados can raise cholesterol levels and may even cause toxemia or preeclampsia to moms-to-be like me… Me and my husband really love eating avocados pa naman (frozen with milk)...
I am glad that you came up with this list…now I have something to prove our “critics” wrong… Hehehehehhe
[...] soy, fruit, chocolate and red wine Carotenoids: fruits and vegetable An earlier post provides a food chart that gives the benefits of the foods that we eat. Given the above study and the options that we [...]
since my gyne. says about my Uterus…..i started drinking -green tea, as what my papa says, Green tea is good for our Health…..
i think it helps, kasi my uterus is ok and my myome? is not active-growth, and my menst. is ok too…....
My gene. says momentarily, there´s no need of OP….
i think from Green Tea, i drink this since 2003…....since i have this problem….
makapayat pa…...lol
[...] ago, I posted a food chart, which shows the benefits of the food we eat. Look what I found now—it is worth [...]
great info but why does your list stop at prunes?
I just got the results from my last blood test and my cholesterol is high (243). I am using your info as a guide to help me eat right and exercise to bring my cholesterol level down to normal.
Thanks for your help
Brad