Cruciferous vegetables may help lower the risk for certain types of cancer, according to the Linus Pauling Institute, because of
the beneficial plant chemicals they contain.
As with other colorful fruits and veggies, colored potatoes and sweet potatoes (i.e. yellow, orange, and purple - fleshed varieties) are higher in
these beneficial plant chemicals.
Cruciferous vegetables provide lots of nutrients, including folate, vitamin C, selenium, potassium and a number of
beneficial plant chemicals.
Not exact matches
Beneficial insects to control pests and stimulate healthy
plant growth, instead of harmful
chemicals
While there is still much to learn about these other
chemicals, researchers in Israel have discovered that whole -
plant cannabis extracts that contain these other
chemicals are more
beneficial than isolated extracts that contain just CBD or THC.
It's also a good source of protein, magnesium, zinc, iron, antioxidants, vitamin B, vitamin E and
beneficial phyto -
chemicals (
plant - based molecules that have
beneficial effects).
Eating a varied diet full of fruits, vegetables, healthy proteins and fats, and whole grains is the best way to get enough of these six essential nutrients plus the important category of phytonutrients — the
beneficial chemicals in colorful
plants that prevent disease.
1935 Effects of the high carbohydrate - low calorie diet upon carbohydrate tolerance in diabetes mellitus 1955 Low - fat diet and therapeutic doses of insulin in diabetes mellitus 1958 Effect of rice diet on diabetes mellitus associated with vascular disease 1976
Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet on hyperglycemic diabetic men 1977 Effect of carbohydrate restriction and high carbohydrates diets on men with
chemical diabetes 1979 High - carbohydrate, high - fiber diets for insulin - treated men with diabetes mellitus 1981 High carbohydrate high in fibre diet in diabetes 1982 Response of non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients to an intensive program of diet and exercise 1983 Long - term use of a high - complex - carbohydrate, high - fiber, low - fat diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM patients 1994 Diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM: the need for early emphasis 1999 Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot intervention using a lowfat, vegetarian diet 2005 The effects of a low - fat,
plant - based dietary intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity 2006 A low - fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes 2006 Effect of short ‐ term Pritikin diet therapy on the metabolic syndrome 2009 A low - fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74 - wk clinical trial
But pollution also covers hundreds of
chemicals which are fine or even
beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of
plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).
Of course, buying
plants that attract bees may not be
beneficial if the
plants themselves are laced with toxic
chemicals.