Eating colourful fruits and vegetables each day is a great start

Including lots of fruit and vegetables can also compromise the immune and digestive systems and, ultimately, long term health. By Eating the same type of food every day is not only boring but could lead to deficiencies in certain nutrients if the foods are lacking in key nutrients.

Colorful fruits and vegetables like broccoli, like tomatoes, like carrots, like oranges have lots of different antioxidants, lots of different phyto chemicals. To increase your energy and give your body an invigorating year-long treat... Upgrade to colourful foods and enjoy mountains of delicious, fresh food!

Let's look at the positives:
• Colourful foods have no preservatives, no added colour!
• Provide an abundance of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fibre, water and trace elements.
• Have a high water content - an excellent source of hydration for the body.
• Are visually appetising.
• Their firm textures demand a good chew, so we eat them more slowly and feel full up afterwards.
• Are quickly and easily processed and assimilated by the body - less work for the digestive system.
• Are safer - contain less undesirable man-made chemicals.
• Are as nature intended (unlike processed, pre-packaged modern fast foods!)
• Are pure energy - living food!

And the negatives:

• Colourful Foods have no negatives.
• They are 100% good for you!

Compare the above list to consuming cooked foods:

• Heat destroys the vitalising nutrients in colourful foods. So much so that sometimes, you may as well be eating cardboard for all the good it does your body!

• The effectiveness of fibre in cooked fresh foods is reduced - vegetables that are floppy and overcooked pass through the body with reduced "cleansing" action. If you cook vegetables, always steam them lightly and aim to retain their "crunch"!

• Cooked vegetables tend to turn out soft and therefore require less chewing, which means they are usually eaten more quickly, so are less satisfying.

• Heat also destroys the enzymes in fresh foods, which are essential for digestion. This means the body has to tap into its own precious supply of enzymes to support the digestive process.

• Nature did not intend her beautiful colourful foods to be ruined by heat... just look how pale they look when cooked, isn't that enough of a clue?

Eating colourful fruits and vegetables each day is a great start...