Tomatoes have Numerous Health Benefits

Tomatoes are known for their impressive array of health benefits along with their incredible flavor. 

Here is a detailed look at the health benefits of tomatoes, their botany, primary compounds, traditional medicinal uses, and findings from recent human clinical research.

Rose Hips Fight 12 Health Conditions

Roses are beautiful, but rose hips are bursting with phytonutrients and health benefits. Indeed, they have a long history of being used to treat disease in traditional medicines around the world. We can now validate this with scientific research.

Peanuts Yield Many Medicinal Benefits

Peanuts are powerhouses for healing and preventing disease. The proof might have been in the PB for a long time now. But now we have the whole nut, so to speak.

Recent research finds that peanuts reduce the risk of early death from heart disease, cancer and a host of other conditions. Peanuts even drop the risk of early death from any cause.

Healing Benefits of Maqui Berry Superfruit

The maqui berry superfruit has many healing benefits, including being heart healthy.

Continuing research is exposing that a superfruit indigenous to Chile and surrounding South American countries produces a wealth of positive effects upon our health. And it contains a bioactive chemical that no other food contains at these levels.

Heart-healthy maqui berry superfruit.

Eating More Fruits and Vegetables Extends Life

Fruits and vegetables help us live longer and thus provide us with some of the best plant medicines. This notion is no longer based on the sayings of our parents as they told us to eat our vegetables.

Increased consumption of vegetables and fruits boosts lifespan

Nuts Reduce Risk of Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease

Adding to the many benefits of nuts including reducing heart disease, research has confirmed that increasing our intake of nuts decreases our risk of diabetes and pancreatic cancer.

Plant Fiber Reduces Secondhand Smoke Effects

Researchers have confirmed that increased intake of fiber doesn’t just help colon health. It also reduces the toxic effects of secondhand smoke.

Food Colors affect Weight Loss, Heart Health

Yes, we know that colored fruits and vegetables are healthier. A bunch of studies have illustrated the effects of the different pigments that make up our food colors: Pigments such as carotenoids and anthocyanins produce different colors in our foods.

But you probably figured that losing weight or our cholesterol levels had little to do with the colors of the foods we eat.

Think again. 

Avocado Helps Reverse Metabolic Syndrome

Continuing medical research is proving that avocado (Persea Americana) provides one of the most effective ways to naturally reverse or prevent metabolic syndrome.

Mediterranean Diet Reduces Heart Disease Risk

Multiple studies have now shown that the Mediterranean diet can dramatically reduce the risk of stroke, heart attacks and other cardiovascular-related events.

Thousands followed in Med diet study

The research was funded by Spain’s Ministry of Health and was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers conducted a large-scale landmark study called the Spanish PREDIMED (PREvención con DIeta MEDiterranea) trial.

Mediterranean diet found to reduce heart disease

Plant-based Diets Reduce Cancer and Heart Disease Deaths

Research continues to quietly and consistently confirm the many health benefits of plant-based diets.

The benefits aren’t trivial either. We’re talking about the heavy hitters: Helping to preventing the diseases that kill the most people. Namely, heart disease and cancer.

Today, these two diseases kill millions of people. They are, in fact, the leading causes of death.

Banana Peels Help Prevent Hardening of the Arteries

Banana peels may be more valuable to our health than many assume. The peels of bananas contain many compounds that help the body heal. They may also prevent artery disease.

Berries Fight Heart Disease

Studies are showing that berries can reduce cardiovascular disease.

Multiple studies have shown that eating a diet rich in a particular plant nutrient reduces the risk of heart attacks and lowers blood pressure.

Plant Fats Reduce Weight and Heart Disease

Plant-based monounsaturated and ALA oils reduce hypertension and heart disease according to studies.

Two recent studies have shown that diets that are high in plant-based omega-3s and monounsaturated fats lead to significant reductions of heart disease, metabolic syndrome and obesity.