Live Whole Food Nutrition - Alternative to Synthetic Pills!

Many people that do not eat the proper daily amount of fruits and vegetables required for optimum health. Some turn to nutritional supplements to meet their required daily amounts of nutrition even when they realize the importance of live whole foods. With the thousands of dietary supplements on the market today, they could feel overwhelmed with the many choices at the local health food store, grocery store or on-line vitamin shops. How do you make the right choice for you and your family? Is there an alternative to synthetic pills?

Synthetic vitamin and mineral supplements simply just do not provide the nutrients to your body in nature’s perfect balance like whole foods do. This means your body will probably not realize the full nutritional benefits you are expecting.

Fresh, live whole foods are the number one source of nutrition for our bodies because they offer nutrients in their optimal, natural state that the body can immediately recognize and utilize. However, it can be difficult, if not impossible to consume an adequate QUALITY or QUANTITY of fresh, live whole food in our daily diet. Most people are not experiencing the extraordinary nutritional benefits that whole food nutrition can provide and look for a solution to their dilemma.

There is now a convenient natural way to solve this problem. URI International has developed a variety of live whole foods nutritional supplements manufactured though a proprietary drying process that preserves the nutrients in a powder form. URI International whole food nutritional products provide the most balanced, natural, nutrient dense, health boosting form of whole food nutrition available.

URI International has developed a variety of live whole food nutritional supplements manufactured though a proprietary drying process that preserves the nutrients in a powder form. URI International whole food nutritional products provide the most balanced, natural, nutrient dense, health boosting form of whole food nutrition available.

Nutritional Benefits of Spinach

Lutein and Zeaxanthin are antioxidants in the carotenoid family. They are found in high levels in spinach and they concentrate in the part of the retina where macular degeneration occurs. Once there, they protect the retina from damage caused by sunlight. Harvard researchers reported that people eating the most Lutein and Zeaxanthin had a 57 percent decreased risk of macular degeneration, compared with people eating the least.

At least 13 different flavonoid compounds in spinach have been identified by researchers. These compounds function as antioxidants and as anti-cancer agents. The anti-cancer action of these nutrients has been sufficiently impressive to prompt researchers to create specialized spinach extracts that could be used in controlled studies. These spinach extracts have been shown to slow down cell division in stomach cancer cells, and in studies on mice, to reduce skin cancers. A study on adult women living in New England in the late 1980s also showed intake of spinach to be inversely related to incidence of breast cancer.

Another carotenoid found in spinach and other green leafy vegetables fights human prostate cancer two different ways, according to research published in the September 2004 issue of the Journal of Nutrition. The carotenoid, called neoxanthin, not only induces prostate cancer cells to self-destruct, but is converted in the intestines into additional compounds, called neochromes, which put prostate cancer cells into a state of stasis, thus preventing their replication.

Spinach can be consumed cooked or raw. Baby spinach leaves are especially good in salads with bleu cheese, walnuts, red onions, and a vinaigrette dressing made with Heart Of Gold. Spinach cooks very quickly and doesn’t need added water. Just place it in a pan, cover, and simmer for two to four minutes until it wilts; spinach is also excellent when steamed or it can be sautéed in olive oil with garlic for three or four minutes. Spinach is a good addition to stews and to soups that contain beans, pasta, or potatoes or to any kind of curry dish.

Although Popeye was not a nutritional research scientist, he certainly knew the nutritional benefits that come from live whole foods like spinach.