Fernandina Beach Healthy Phytonutrients in Late Summer Veggies & Fruits
Vegetable or Fruit? Tomato? Zucchini? Green Beans? Ok. The green beans are a freebie. They’re vegetables! But the tomato and zucchini are really fruits though they are manytimes mixed in dishes thought to be made of veggies. No big deal! Amelia Chiropractic Clinic does not mind a bit. A healthy Fernandina Beach chiropractic treatment plan incorporates them all…right along with the spinal manipulation. As long as you enjoy eating fruits and vegetables packed with phytonutrients, you are doing your body a favor! And late summer in the northern hemisphere at least is the perfect time to enjoy these direct-out-of-the-garden delights!
PHYTONUTRIENTS
Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor has a fondness for phytonutrients! Fruits and vegetables are packed with phytonutrients, nature’s natural chemicals that protect plants from bugs, fungi, germs, and other such issues. We humans consume these fruits and vegetables and gain much from their phytonutrients, too! The more than 25,000 phytonutrients keep the body in good working shape and help prevent disease. Phytonutrients you have likely heard of include carotenoids (red, orange and yellow color-making), flavonoids (cancer-preventing, asthma/cancer/heart disease risk-decreasing), and reservatrol (anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, heart disease and cancer preventing). (1) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic suggests that consuming all the fresh fruits and vegetables this summer will be good for us all.
Fernandina Beach CHIROPRACTIC NUTRITION TIP: ENJOY FALL FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Lots of Fernandina Beach farmers and backyard gardeners are generously giving away their harvest! Tomatoes, zucchini and beans abound! Take advantage of the tomatoes’ nutrients like potassium, vitamin C and vitamin A and phytonutrients that may reduce prostate cancer risk, support heart and eyesight health, protect skin against sun damage. (2) A recent study just reported on the benefit of eating more tomatoes, cruciferous vegetables, garlic, and citrus fruits in decreasing colorectal cancer. (3) Green beans deliver vitamins K, C, A and B’s folate, riboflavin, thiamin and minerals copper and magnesium to support brain function, cellular damage repair, and bone health. All that in just a few calories packed with some protein! (4) Zucchini offers much the same – low calories, high protein, lots of vitamins (C, B6, A, folate, riboflavin and thiamin) plus manganese, magnesium, phosphorous, and potassium. As a matter of fact, a cup of zucchini delivers 24% of the daily need for vitamin C! That’s good for cell protection, cancer prevention, better skin. (5) Do not refuse those garden gifts! Enjoy some tasty phytonutrients in these late summer harvest goodies. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic can’t think of a better way to complement your body’s health! Good nutrition and a good chiropractic treatment go together well!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Lee Hazen and Cheri Hazen on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they describe their effective incorporation of nutrition and Cox® Technic to best take care of their patients.
Schedule your Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment soon. The health of your spine and body are important to us! Fruit? Vegetable? Doesn’t matter! Eat them up! Enjoy these phytonutrient wonders that can only help your healthy chiropractic treatment plan.
