
EAT MORE RAINBOWS! What did you think ?
EAT MORE RAINBOWS!
Legend suggests that a pot of gold can be found at the end of each
rainbow. That treasure can be cashed in to preserve your good health and ward
off future dis-ease. Society considers that which is white, to be pure...
Such a belief can be deceptive. By shining white light through a
prism, one is instantly blessed with the hidden beauty and complex nature of
our universe. A pure white beam of light reveals its inner essence of beautiful
rays of the rainbow.
Most people can name the seven visible colors of the rainbow's
spectrum. Violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Of course, there are
two other colors, often forgotten, but always present, ultraviolet and
infrared.
Animals and insects feel these colours. Plants sense them
too. Whilst we lack the same receptors and are blind to their existence,
our handicap cannot negate their influence. The ultra's and infra's of
plants are magical substances indeed! They include plant chemicals, or
phyto chemicals, such as isflavones and bioflavonoids. Science teaches us
that plants protect themselves from attach with their own secretions and
chemicals messengers. Vegetables repel insects who would eat them, and
blossoms atract other insects with a perform so that their pollens can be
spread and their species self-propogate. Plants protect themselves from
too much heat, or cold, or wind, or too much moisture, maintaining their own
good health with their specialized hormones. Plants can cure their own
sicknesses and cancers by secreting and bathing themselves in these enchanted
essences.
When we eat the plants, we are
similarly protected. Modern science has confirmed the centuries-old traditions
and lore from cultures that refined the sacred techniques of using foods as
medicine. We have often heard that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away..
Such wisdom!

Today's Perfect Rainbow:
Eat foods of colour. The
perfect colour can be found right in the middle of our rainbow, the color
green.
Eat green
for Wellness:
In the 1980s, scientists first began to explore how phytochemicals
prevent cancers. A great amount of emphasis was placed upon the fruits and
vegetables that contain vibrant colors. The best known of these wonder drugs
was recognized as beta carotene. That's what gives carrots their bright orange
hue.

In the 1990s,
scientists at the University of Minnesota (Steinmetz, et. al.) categorized different
groups of fruits and vegetables demonstrating life giving, disease fighting
qualities. In doing so, they defined some of those magic colors, and the
phytochemicals so contained within those pigments..
The violet, indigo
and blues of the plant kingdom include phenols and dithiolthiolnines contained
in eggplant, cruciferous vegetables, grapes, plums, and grains.
Eat onions and
shallots, leeks, scallions and garlic. for cancer-fighting alliums. Those green
leafy vegetables contain flavonoids, and inositol is found in beans. Green
fruits and veggies contain phenols, and plant sterols, protease inhibitors and
saponins.
Yellow limonines contained in citrus fruit and squash have also been identified as cancer
fighters, as have the orange carotines in carrots, and my all-time favorite
vitamin pill, the cantaloupe. Balancing out the rainbow's spectrum would be the
red phenols in peppers, radishes, and tomatoes..

Tens of thousands
of unique substances have been identified, and there are still plant hormones
and enzymes yet to be discovered..
Remarkably, the
one plant containing the greatest amount of these wonderful phytochemicals is
the soybean. The tiny soybean contains coumarins, flavonoids, inositol,
isoflavones, lignans, phenols, plant sterols, protease inhibitors, saponins,
and Omega 3 and Omega 6 oils..
So, on new year's
eve, visit your local produce store and treat yourself and family to a rainbow.
Make this a daily tradition never to be broken.
Robert Cohen, http://soulveggie.blogs.com