Eat a rainbow today

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A friend sent me the following, which is wonderful advice for ALL of us as to proper, health-enhancing food choices. I like the way it is written - wish I knew whom to thank! I am sure you will all like it, too.

 

Linda Y.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHAT IS THE PERFECT DIET? LET THEM EAT RAINBOWS!Marie's Antoinette's misunderstood advice to revolting peasants

was "Let them eat cake." She wasn't referring to petit fours or

eclairs. When food was scarce in France during the 1790s, the

miserable people (les miserables) baked fireplace ashes with

wheat and water to form a substance commonly known as "cake."

In our 21st century, there is a variety and abundance of fresh

fruits and vegetables, even for those people unlucky enough to

be living in Buffalo, New York during record snow falls!Shining white light through a prism, one is instantly blessed with

the hidden beauty and complex nature of our universe. A pure

white beam of light reveals its inner essence.Most people can name the seven visible colors of the rainbow's

spectrum. Violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.

Of course, there are two other colors, often forgotten, but always

present, ultraviolet and infra-red.Animals and insects feel these colors. Plants sense them, too.

While we lack the same receptors and are blind to their existance,

our handicap cannot negate their influence.The ultras and infras of plants are magical substances, indeed!

They include plant chemicals, or phyto chemicals, such as

isoflavones and bioflavinoids. Science teaches us that plants

protect themselves from attack with their own secretions and

chemical messengers. Vegetables repel insects who would eat

them, and blossoms attract other insects with a perfume sothat their pollens can be spread and their species self-propagate.

Plants protect themselves from too much heat, or cold, or wind,

or too much moisture, maintaining their own good health with their

specialized hormones. Plants can cure their own sicknesses and

cancers by secreting and bathing themselves with these enchanted

essences.When we eat the plants, we are similarly protected. Modern

science has confirmed the centuries-old traditions and lore from

cultures that refined the sacred techniques of using foods as

medicine.TODAY'S PERFECT RAINBOWEat foods of color. The perfect color can be found right in the

center of our rainbow, GREEN! There's is a pot of gold and

jewels within that rainbow, and the treasures contained there

can be cashed in to purchase good health.Eat GREEN for wellness and vitality all the days of your Life.In the 1980s, scientists first began to explore how phytochemicals

prevent cancers. A great amount of emphasis was placed upon the

fruits and vegetables which contain vibrant colors. The best known of

these wonders was recognized as beta carotene. That's what givescarrots their bright orange hue.In the 1990s, scientists at the University of Minnesota (Steinmetz,

et. al.) categorized different groups of fruits and vegetables

demonstrating life giving, disease fighting qualities. In doing so,

they defined some of those magic colors, and the phytochemicals

contained within those pigments.SOME OF THE MAGICAL COLORSThe violet, indigo and blues of the plant kingdom include phenols and

dithiolthiolnines contained in eggplant, cruciferous vegetables, grapes,

plums, and grains.Eat onions and shallots, leeks, scallions and garlic for cancer-fighting

alliums. The green leafy vegetables contain flavonoids, and inositol

is found in beans. Green fruits and veggies contain phenols, and plant

sterols, protease inhibitors and saponins.Yellow limonines contained in citrus fruit and squash have also been

identified as cancer fighters, as have the orange carotenes in carrots,

and an all-time favorite, the cantaloupe. Balancing out the rainbow's

spectrum would be the red phenols in peppers, radishes, and tomatoes.Tens of thousands of unique substances have been identified, and

there are still plant hormones and enzymes yet to be discovered.Remarkably, the one plant containing the greatest amount of these

wonderful phytochemicals is the soybean. They contain coumarins,

flavonoids, inositol, isoflavones, lignans, phenols, plant sterols,

protease inhibitors, saponins, and Omega 3 and Omega 6 oils.For many years, it has been said that "an apple a day keeps the

doctor away." Such infinite wisdom! Each day of one's life should

reflect a lifestyle that includes this maxim:For the best of health eat a rainbow today!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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