“Eat healthy foods. Stay healthy”. – Following this slogan these days, health-conscious people are running after the new trend called the superfoods. But, how can one classify which foods are superfood among the various choices of food materials and eating habits? People are scouting around to find the best food that will help them in losing weight, boost their immunity level, make their skin glow, overall, improving their lifestyle. But, can there be any particular food that will make a person feel younger or healthier overnight?
Sounds impossible. Right?
A perfect plan of building healthy eating habits can do so not in the overnight, but gradually improving the quality of the lifestyle. And healthy eating habits come from eating healthy foods, packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants. Eating superfood doesn’t mean you have to buy costly food products of various brands, but having a healthy diet with the easy to find natural food ingredients, loaded on the earth.
Following are the five best super foods that help a person to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Oats
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When it comes to maintaining heart health, compared to other whole grains, oats comes at the top of the list. Oats are full of fiber that helps in lowering the cholesterol level of the blood. Even a little amount of oats, eating with milk or cooking with vegetables, make a person full.
This wonder grain helps a person to eat less and fight with the food cravings. If you want to trim your belly fat and make your skin glow, then oats will act as a superfood of nature that keep the heart healthy, trim the belly fat, and improve the skin texture at once. Loaded with the nutrients like zinc, copper, fiber, niacin, etc., oats serves as the best tropical cure of rough, dry, dull, and patchy skin problems.
Berries
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In terms of improving health, if we say that superfoods are nothing but the multi-tasker, then the berries come to the front. Nearly all the berries serve as the rich source of essential nutrients and fiber. A daily intake of berries will keep the heart healthy as well as trim the waistline. While raspberry is infused with anti-cancer properties, the blueberries, filled with antioxidants, helps to release the toxins out of the body.
The anthocyanins of blueberry make the memory sharp, while a spoonful of vitamin C enriched strawberry is good for skin tightening and firming. So, it stands out, all the berries are superfoods. But what would you do when winter comes? In the winter one can hardly see the berries are around. Grab the frozen, unsweetened berries and mix them with oatmeal, yogurt, or make smoothies with berries. No matter how you eat, berries will shower health benefits on you.
Avocado
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Rich in vitamins, nutrients, minerals, healthy fat, and fiber, avocado is a highly nutritious food, sometimes treated as a vegetable by the culinary experts. The monounsaturated fats in avocado help to reduce the inflammation in the body. Those who eat avocado every day, lose their body weight faster than the others. From controlling the blood cholesterol level to blood sugar level, avocado does everything single-handedly.
Vitamin C, E, and K are essential to maintaining a healthy skin; avocado is a rich source of all the three vitamins. Moreover, the healthy fat in avocado repairs the sun damage on the skin. If you eat avocado daily then you will be free from the worries of diabetes, heart disorder, metabolic syndrome, and skin problems as well.
Nuts
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Talking about maintaining a healthy life, a spoonful of nuts serve as the mid-day snack, packed with nutrients. Is there anything that nuts cannot do? Rich in polyunsaturated fats and magnesium, nuts help in keeping the heart healthy.
The nutrients in the nuts act like the shield against the insulin, protecting the body from diabetes. A daily intake of nuts helps a person to protect his body from free radicals. From lowering the skin and body inflammation to reducing the chances to cancer, nuts are the superfood that is healthy to eat as well as tastes good.
Egg
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Rich in high-quality protein, the egg is nutritious as well as tastes good. For so many years, with its delicious taste, the egg has been satisfying the taste buds of people on the breakfast table. Besides extinguishing the flames of food craving, egg boosts the meal with power too.
When you eat an egg, your body is getting 70 calories along with protein of 6 grams. Moreover, egg yolk is infused with lutein and zeaxanthin. These two antioxidants help in maintaining the ocular health. Studies show that the combination of lutein and zeaxanthin reduce the risks of age-related blindness in people around the world. A daily intake of egg helps a person to keep his skin safe from the harmful UV rays.
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