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Health & nutrition advice
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Rainbow Foods Grandmother taught the fundamentals to good health: "eat your fruit and vegetables", i.e. a rainbow diet. Dr Ray Vartabedian devised a system assigning nutrition- Blue Blueberries (14) al values (www.nutripoints.com) for foods to help you Indigo Bilberries (3oz 10) make better choices for maximum benefit. e.g. 2 cups of Violet Eggplant/Brinjel/ Aubergine, cooked (34), Figs, raw spinach is 75 nutripoints whereas 2 cups of green dried (1w 2.5) lettuce is 34. Fruit and vegetables are our Nutri Heroes Black Blackberries (26), Blackcurrants (25.3) and there are also Nutri Zeros with negative nutripoint White values! Cauliflower, raw (37.5),Turnips, cooked (36), Turnips, cooked (19.5),Mushrooms, fresh (35) Add up the points for the foods you eat in a day and see Parsnips, raw (23),Parsnips, cooked (17), Onions, raw where you can make different choices to improve your (16) nutripoints. 25 = very poor, 50 = poor, 75 = fair, 100 = Potato, baked (17), Potato chips (8 salted 0) good, 150 = excellent, 200+ = superior diet. Banana (1w 15) According to Dr Vartabedian, in a good diet of 100 points, 55 should be vegetables and 15 fruits. i.e. 70% of our nutripoints should come from fruit and vegetables. Below are values of common foods, given per cup or "w" indicates the whole food and the number of them. They are listed with the highest values first and grouped by types where possible. Red Tomato (1w 30), Radish, raw (29), Beetroot, cooked (22) Raspberries (25), Strawberries (19), Red Currants (3oz 14.5), Cranberries, raw (10), Cherries (10w 7.5) Peppers (1w 11.75) Apple (1w 4.5), Grapes (20w 4.5) Orange Carrots cooked (60), Carrots raw (1w 35.5) Butternut Squash, baked (53), Pumpkin (51), Pumpkin, cooked (35) Papaya (1w 41), Mango (1w 35), Orange (1w 13.5), Apricots (1w 13.5), Peach (1w 11) Peppers (1w 11.75) Yellow Squash, cooked (32) Grapefruit (1w 26), Pineapple (16), Pear (1w 4.5) Peppers (1w 11.75) Green Melon, Cantaloupe (1w 116), Melon, Honeydew (56) Brussels Sprouts, cooked (80), Broccoli raw (53) Swiss Chard, cooked (42), Kale, cooked (37.5), Spinach, raw (37.5), Spinach, cooked (26.75) Cabbage, raw (39), Beans, cooked (24.5) Lettuce, Romaine (23.75), Lettuce, Iceberg (10 pieces 18) Cucumber, raw (1w 20), Celery, raw (8 stalks 20) Avocado (1w 16), Apple (1w 4.5). Grapes (20w 4.5) Zucchini, raw (16), Zucchini, cooked (15), Peas (14), Leeks, cooked (15), Leeks, raw (1w 8) Peppers (1w 11.75)
We are happy to advise you on your health matters. Lin Bridgeford DO KFRP MSCC ICAK (UK) MSc Registered Osteopath & Kinesiologist & Yoga Teacher Aether Bios Clinic , Saltdean Brighton 01273 309557 07710 227038
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