Beautiful Berries

For being such a sweet treat, berries pack quite a fighting punch!

Some thing to note:

Frozen Berries do not lose anti-oxidants, so stock up when those organic frozen ones are on sale!

They protect you from free radicals. (and therefore cancer too)

Now for the specifics...

Blackberries-

• Blackberries have the highest antioxidant content of all berries (other than Acai)
• They inhibit tumor cells.

Contain

• Vitamin A
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin E
• Vitamin K
• Folate
• Potassium
• Zinc
• Beta Carotene
• Lutein

Blueberries-

• Wild blueberries have high anti-oxidants so get picking!

Contain

• Vitamin C
• Manganese (hard to find)
• Fiber
• Anthocyanins (protect cells in body from free radical damage.)

Acai Berries-

• Freeze dried are a great source
• Anti-inflamitory
• Artritus relief
• Cox-1 and Cox-2 inhibitors

Contain

• beta-sitosterol
• phytosterol which competes with cholesterol for absorption and lowers LDL.
• Vitamin A
• Potassium
• Vitamin B1, B2, B3
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin E
• Magnesium (very important and hard to find)
• Copper
• Zinc
• Phosphorus which protects from Leukemia.

It's overwhelming all the health benefits these berries pack. Go grab a bowl, then get Googling all those 'what on earth?!' words.

Baby Steps To Protect Against Prostate Cancer

Dear to my heart, from grandfathers to father-in laws to protecting a wonderful husband...

Steps to incorporate into your eating to arm your body to fight and to heal your cells now.

-Tomatoes 2x week, reduces your risk by 23% (find more carotenoids)

-Fish oil can increases the ratio of omega 3 to omega 6 in your blood- which reduces cox-2 inflammation (the bad guys) and slows progression of prostate cancer.

-Incorporate lots of foods high in Vit. E- nuts, seeds, spinach, peppers and olive oil

-Avoid- high glycemic foods, processed meat, red meat

-Cruciferous veg- especially broccoli- 1 times a week can cut aggressive stage III & IV by 45%.It's an anti carcinogen, sulforaphane, turns on the liver enzymes to detox carcinogens, alkalinize urine and to accelerate carcinogen excretion.

-Drink pomegranate juice- 8oz daily, to slow tumor doubling time.(yay flavonoids!)

-Adding flax meal (3 heap T) daily reduced 30-40% tumor growth in 4-6mo.  Recommended daily in 1/2-1T unless you have a family history of prostate cancer or have already been diagnosed.  Then up the amount and don't worry about the calories.

-Soy- isoflavinoes (organic soybeans are the best source.) lower hormone production & inhibit production cancer cells. Read more about them here... http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/soyiso/

sources: http://fightinfoods.blogspot.com/p/sources-addictions.html