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Black Super Foods: Black Is the New Green
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4. Black Rice
Everyone knows that brown rice is better for you than white, but black rice is better still! The bran hull of black rice has much higher levels of vitamin E, and antioxidants that their lighter colored cousins. Antioxidants bolster your immune system and protect your cells from those nasty free radicals that love to do damage to your body. The Louisiana State University Agricultural Center did a study that showed black rice actually has more antioxidants than blueberries!
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5. Black Lentils
These tiny legumes are packed full of iron. Just one cup has 8 milligrams, that’s half of the iron you need every day. They have lost of soluble fiber, which lowers your cholesterol levels as well as improve your immune function, according to a study done at the University of Illinois.
6. Blackberries
Blackberries are another fiber rich food, with one cup having 8 grams of the 25 grams of daily fiber needed for good health. Blackberries also have polyphenols, which studies show help slow the cognitive decline that often accompanies old age. Polyphenols are the housekeepers of the brain, if you will, as they clean up dead or dying cells that can impair the function of the brain, this according to researchers at the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging. Blackberries are also antioxidant rich food.
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Rowie Truth
Aug 20, 2017 at 2:10 pm
1. Black Beans:
”These little black powerhouses have no cholesterol and only trace amounts of saturated fat.”
I am sorry, but I mean this in a loving way, this is DISINFORMATION and OUTDATED.
Everyone today EXCEPT doctors and nutrition specialists believe this to be true. Cholesterol is a HEALTHY very benefitial fat the the body makes itself. Cholesterol from food is hardly absorbed, and only in quantities it needs. The egg is infamously known for it’s cholesterol, but did you know that eating 10 eggs a day does not raise cholesterol?
Second why is saturated plantfat bad???? Is coconut oil bad? Is avocado fat bad? Get out of here. The true horror fat is hydrogenated vegetable oils that contain carcinogenic transfats!! Not saturated fats in vegetables. This is a lie from the sixties darkages. I am sorry but I have no respect who puts out lies to people who come here with questions. Do you know that real cream butter is extremely healthy? There are bad animal fats, but they are hardly food anyway, like hotdog, reclaimed meats, and the white fat under the skin. But fats between the organs and dairy and from meat is healthy. Be sure to buy grassfed beef instead of grain /corn fed no daylight cows.
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