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Eating a diet plentiful in fruits and vegetables can help keep you healthy. In fact, a plant-based diet provides most of its calories from vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and beans and provides the nutrients that your body needs to repair the damage that we impose on it through daily living, i.e. pollution, sun damage, chemicals in our food.
Thanksgiving dinner is a fantastic opportunity to get a good helping of your daily requirement for micro-nutrients. Micro-nutrients -- vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals -- are calorie-free. As Dr. Joel Fuhrman states in his book Eat for Health, "Eating foods that are rich in micro-nutrients is essential to achieving optimal health." In plant-foods, there are 14 different vitamins, 25 different minerals, and more than 10,000 phytochemicals that Fuhrman says "have profound effects on human cell function and the immune system."
Where to look for the micro-nutrients? Nature has an uncanny way of drawing us to the foods that are best for optimal health. The most nutritious foods are those that have vibrant color: bright greens, reds, oranges, and yellows. It is these foods that have thousands and thousands of chemicals that interact with each other to orchestrate the growth and repair that are vital to good health. Turkey accompaniments, such as sweet potatoes, spinach, carrots, kale, radishes, and bell peppers are abounding with life-giving nutrients. So, dig in!
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