Baton Rouge 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! Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers does not mind a bit. A healthy Baton Rouge chiropractic treatment plan includes them all…right along with the spinal manipulation. As long as you like eating fruits and vegetables filled with phytonutrients, you are doing your body a favor! And late summer in the northern hemisphere at any rate is the opportune time to enjoy these direct-out-of-the-garden delights!
PHYTONUTRIENTS
Your Baton Rouge chiropractor has a fondness for phytonutrients! Fruits and vegetables are full of phytonutrients, nature’s natural chemicals that protect plants from bugs, fungi, germs, and other such problems. We humans eat these fruits and vegetables and benefit from their phytonutrients, too! The more than 25,000 phytonutrients keep the body in good working shape and help prevent disease. Phytonutrients you have probably heard of include carotenoids (red, orange and yellow color-creating), flavonoids (cancer-preventing, asthma/cancer/heart disease risk-reducing), and reservatrol (anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, heart disease and cancer preventing). (1) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers reminds that consuming all the fresh fruits and vegetables this season will do us all some good.
Baton Rouge CHIROPRACTIC NUTRITION TIP: ENJOY FALL FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Lots of Baton Rouge farmers and backyard gardeners are sharing their harvest! Tomatoes, zucchini and beans are plentiful! Take advantage of the tomatoes’ nutrients like potassium, vitamin C and vitamin A and phytonutrients that may decrease prostate cancer risk, sustain 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 reducing colorectal cancer. (3) Green beans deliver vitamins K, C, A and B’s folate, riboflavin, thiamin and minerals copper and magnesium to shore up brain function, cellular damage repair, and bone health. All that in so few calories loaded with good protein! (4) Zucchini offers much the same – low calories, high protein, many 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 recommendation for vitamin C! That is good for cell protection, cancer prevention, better skin. (5) Do not refuse those garden gifts! Enjoy some tasty phytonutrients in these late summer garden goodies. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers 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 illustrate their successful incorporation of nutrition and Cox® Technic to best take care of their patients.
Schedule your Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment now. We care about the health of your spine and your body! Fruit? Vegetable? Doesn’t matter! Eat them up! Enjoy these phytonutrient marvels that can only boost your healthy chiropractic treatment plan.
