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Want to give your body the boost and cleanse that it needs? We've got 10 quick facts to help improve your overall health and wellness, allowing you to look and feel great!
You'll be amazed, surprised and inspired at how easy it is to get your body in optimum condition... 10 Facts about Superfoods .jpg) 1: Two apples a day can reduce cholesterol by 10 per cent. 2: Eating 400g (14oz) of fruits, vegetables and salads daily halves your risk of heart and circulatory disease. 3: Eating one portion of any of the cabbage family daily significantly reduces the risk of lung, colon and breast cancer. 4: Two portions a week of spinach, sorrel or beetroot tops reduces the risk of adult macular degeneration (AMD) by 50 per cent. 5: The equivalent of six ripe tomatoes daily – whole fruit, purée, sauce, soup, ketchup, sun-dried or juice – halves the .jpg) risk of prostate cancer in men and helps prevent blood clots and high blood pressure. 6: One clove of garlic daily reduces cholesterol and makes the blood less sticky, preventing blood clots. 7: Southern Europeans get 10 per cent of their energy from the protective fruit and veg superfoods. This is more than twice the percentage of energy that UK residents get from the same produce (41⁄2 per cent) 8: The Mediterranean diet, with its high level of superfoods, means less disease and longer life expectancy – for example, .jpg) Greeks have the lowest incidence of bowel cancer in the whole of Europe. 9: Vitamin pills are not a substitute for superfoods. All the studies using pills to replicate the benefits of the Mediterranean diet for heart disease have failed. 10: Superfoods explain ‘the French Paradox’ – cheese, pâté, sausage, wine and cigarettes but massive intakes of superfoods means 60 per cent less risk of premature death from heart disease than the UK. 
Extracted from Superfood Superjuice, Superhealth, $39.99, Mitchell Beasley, available February 2009, pg 134-135.
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