Weight Loss Super Fruit: Strawberries!
If you're like most people, you probably don't think of strawberries as "health food." They taste too good, for one thing. And they're usually associated with oversugared jams and jellies, ice cream packed with saturated fat, and cakes and pies made with refined flour. But that's just the kind of thinking you'll leave behind as you shed pounds on The Sonoma Diet.
Strawberries are a pleasure to eat and a boon for your health and weight-loss efforts. Once you realize there's more enjoyment in a half cup of fresh, ripe, nutrient-rich strawberries than in a strawberry pastry, you're well on your way to reaching your weight goal.
Eating strawberries provides your body with a unique assortment of phenols (a broad category of phytonutrients). These are antioxidants, acting like rust busters to keep cells healthy and minimize the harm of cholesterol accumulating in your arteries. Strawberries' special phenols have also been shown to reduce dangerous inflammation throughout the body, including the arteries. Their anti-inflammatory action appears to work much like aspirin. That provides even more heart protection, now that inflammation is considered such a major risk factor for heart disease.
Like blueberries and spinach, strawberries also contain special flavonoids that appear to have a brain-saving effect. Thus eating strawberries regularly may literally save your memory. There's also abundant evidence that eating strawberries regularly helps protect you from cancer, age-related vision impairment, and (because of their anti-inflammatory properties) rheumatoid arthritis.
Beginning in Wave 1, you can treat yourself to a half-cup of fresh strawberries every day.
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