Today’s roster of superfoods packs more power than an NFL lineup. Eat right, and you can dramatically slow your rate of aging and lower your risk of disease. But not everyone can handle these superfoods. So here are other options:
•The superfood: Alcohol
• Why it's good: In moderation, wine or beer may reduce your odds for heart disease by more than 25 percent.
• Instead: Put a plant-based “rainbow” on your table. Try blueberries, red grape juice, apples, onions, grapefruit and black tea.
• The superfood: Fish
• Why it's good: Having fatty, nonfried fish three times a week gives your body omega-3 fatty acids, the super-fat that acts like a handyman inside your arteries and also helps with immune function and brain repair. It lowers triglycerides and blood pressure, makes blood less prone to clotting and cuts your odds of arrhythmias. Wild salmon, mahi-mahi, catfish, flounder and tilapia are top sources.
• Instead: Start with DHA-rich foods, such as walnuts (2.5 grams of omega-3 per ounce) and omega-3-enriched eggs and orange juice. Fish-oil supplements work, too: Pop enough to get 3 grams of DHA and EPA a day.
• The superfood: Nuts
• Why they're good: These tiny power foods are packed with fiber, protein and an impressive mix of good fats that help lower your risk of diabetes, drop blood pressure and cool chronic inflammation. An ounce a day can lower the rate of heart disease by as much as 40 percent.
• Instead: If you're allergic to nuts, get their monounsaturated fats from avocados, canola and olive oils, olives and even dark chocolate.
• The superfood: Skim milk
• Why it's good: It's a rich source of bone-protecting calcium, vitamin D and other minerals.
• Instead: If you're lactose-intolerant, try a brand that adds lactase or take lactase tablets before you drink.
If you just don't do milk, then aim for 1,500 mg of calcium per day from other sources. For supplements, we prefer calcium citrate because it is more easily absorbed.
Toss in a little celery, parsley and onion
The next time you're throwing together a light, laid-back dish, spice it up with extra parsley, onion and celery. People who eat these flavor-packed ingredients cut their risk of hardening of the arteries in half.
The health fuel powering these foods comes from flavonoids, plant compounds that are widely known for their disease-fighting, anti-inflammatory properties. These tiny warriors handcuff damaging oxygen-free radicals and encourage your body to take them out through urine. What's more, they defend you from something called peripheral arterial occlusive disease. It narrows, stiffens and hardens the arteries in your legs and arms, reducing blood flow, and causing pain and numbness.
Botox injections should be given by a doctor
Q: Do I need to worry about the safety of Botox? I've heard it can cause allergic reactions in the brain or paralyze your diaphragm and keep you from breathing.
— JOYCE,Pasadena, Calif.
A: Botox is a brand name for a purified form of botulinum toxin, a product that stops muscles from contracting and creating wrinkles. Botox injections used for cosmetic purposes don't carry the risks you mention. If you get them done by a trained physician, he or she will use a very thin needle so that the toxin can't get into the veins. However, noncosmetic forms of botulinum toxin are increasingly used for muscle problems in other parts of the body. Those forms can be very strong and can have contaminants.
SOURCE: chron
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