In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. Margaret J. Wheatley
This healthiest fruit list shows the most nutritious antioxidant fruit benefits.
You'll want to choose often from the healthiest fruit list in order to get the best fruit benefits. Then you can look better, think better and have more abundant energy.
But that's not all. It turns out that an apple a day (or an apricot, grapefruit, kiwi, papaya or bowl of blueberries) CAN keep the doctor away!
Besides being delicious and nutritious, by reducing your risk of colds, flu, heart disease, stroke and cancer, eating the healthiest fruits with the most antioxidant fruit benefits will help you to feel better and live longer.
The Healthiest Fruit with Antioxidant Fruit Benefits
1. Apples, with the skin, provide pectin, 5 grams of fiber and a heaping dose of flavonoid antioxidants. Apple fiber helps lower cholesterol and keep you regular. And the powerful flavonoids reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer. A medium apple has about 80 calories.
2. Apricots are a good source of vitamins A, C and E, potassium, iron and carotenoids. The lycopene found in apricots helps protect your eyes and prevent heart disease, LDL cholesterol oxidation and certain cancers – especially skin cancer. And the fiber in apricots helps relieve constipation. Plus 1 apricot has only 19 calories.
3. Bananas are a great source of potassium (about 400 mg), which helps lower your risk of high blood pressure and stroke and plays a key role in muscle function. Bananas are delicious and sweet to eat, making them a good sugar substitute and natural energy source. The fiber in bananas helps restore normal bowel action. A medium size banana has around 108 calories.
4. Berries are super high in powerful antioxidants, including vitamin C. Numerous studies show berries offer great protection against heart disease stroke, cancer and many other diseases.
Blueberries top the antioxidant fruit benefits list. Besides other health benefits, blueberries help prevent high blood pressure, macular degeneration and brain damage leading to Alzheimer's disease. 1 cup of blueberries has 81 calories and 4 grams of fiber.
Blackberries – a single cup of blackberries has 74 calories and a whopping 10 grams of fiber.
Raspberries – there are 60 calories in 1 cup of raspberries with 8 grams of fiber.
Strawberries – 1 cup of sliced strawberries has 50 calories and 4 grams of fiber.
5. Cantaloupes are packed with Vitamin C, potassium and carotenoid antioxidants. Cantaloupe can help reduce inflammation, prevent cancer and cardiovascular disease, boost immunity and help protect your skin from sunburn. Half a melon has 97 calories and 2 grams of fiber.
6. Cherries are very high in iron and disease-fighting flavonoids. They also have potassium, magnesium, C and E, folate and heart-protective carotenoids. Cherries can significantly reduce inflammation, arthritic pain, bad cholesterol and cancer risk. 1 cup of cherries has 88 calories.
7. Citrus Fruits are best known for flavor, juiciness and high vitamin C content. But they're also a good source of folate, fiber and other antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Citrus fruit has been shown to help reduce cholesterol, blood pressure and the risk of some types of cancer.
Pink or Red Grapefruit – half a grapefruit has just a scant 47 calories.
Oranges provide an impressive 50 to 70 mg of vitamin C and a medium orange has only 68 calories.
Lemons and Limes – 1 lime or small lemon has about 17 calories.
8. Kiwifruit, when compared ounce for ounce, has more than twice the vitamin C of an orange. It's also an excellent source of magnesium, potassium and vitamins A and E. Kiwis have been shown to boost the immune system and reduce respiratory diseases. 1 medium kiwi has 47 calories and 3 grams of fiber.
9. Papayas are loaded with vitamin C, folate, carotenoids and natural digestive enzymes that help with protein digestion. 1 cup of cubed papaya has 55 calories.
10. Red Grapes contain iron, potassium, fiber and an abundance of powerful disease-fighting antioxidants. Although red wine gets most of the publicity, dark colored grapes are the original source of the flavonoids, anthocyanins and resveratrol, which have been shown to help prevent heart disease and cancer. 1 cup of red or purple grapes has 60 calories.
Since this healthiest fruit list offers such extraordinary fruit benefits, choose often from the healthiest fruits with the most antioxidant fruit benefits.
Source: Common Sense Health
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A genuine smile comes from deep down in your soul. It is based on the pure joy, peace and happiness you have in your heart. If lost, the smile that replaces it is but a replication and will only last so long. Find your genuine smile, use it generously, and what you will receive in return for sharing it will be amazing. ~ Stephani McLellan
Photo manipulation. A photo of me taken by a little boy, in Connecticut on November 4, 2012. I was playing around with the sketch.
Parker Whitehouse, 2, of Groton, tastes a wedge of a heritage apple variety at the Fat Moon at Meadowbrook Farm stand in Westford. Sun/Julia Malakie
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Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D’Angelo
A single smile is a cure for anything. It penetrates the human heart causing it to beat faster. A single smile means warmth, satisfaction, happiness, and most of all it means life. People smiling know and understand they have something worth living for. Andriana Kelisakieva
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Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least. ~Charles Wiley
Ven. Luon Sovath and Jendhamuni, in Connecticut on November 4, 2012.
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It was such an honor to meet him in Connecticut, yesterday…
Ven. Luon Sovath and Ven. Munindathero Maha Nhor Tepmony are fomer Vipassana students of the renowned Vipassana Master, Ven. Ketodhammo Som Bunthoeun, who was shot to death in Phnom Penh in 2003, which shocked the Khmer nation.
Ven. Luon Sovath (right) Wins 2012 Martin Ennals Award. He witnessed his family and fellow villagers being forcibly evicted from their homes in 2009. Since then he has been a strong advocate against forced evictions, which remove families from their homes, often violently and little or no compensation. Despite threats to his person, of arrest and disrobing, the Venerable Sovath, a non-violent Buddhist monk, uses videos, poems and songs to defend the right to housing. His advocacy touches powerful economic interests. The threats against the Venerable Sovath are very real. Human Rights First is a member of the Jury that selected the Venerable Sovath.
From left: Ven. Munindathero and Ven. Luon Sovath, in Connecticut on Sunday November 4, 2012.
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Anthony Hebert, 6, of Chelmsford, holds his newly adopted kitten "Frisky" at the Lowell Humane Society on Saturday afternoon. The Society is giving up cats for adoption for $5 this weekend, rather than the normal $125 fee. Sun photo by Bob Whitaker
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LS_100312 : Lowell Humane cat Adoptions : LOW_Anthony Hebert, 6, of Chelmsford with newly adopted kitten , ‘Frisky’, Saturday afternoon..Sun Photo Bob Whitaker_DIG#1512
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Thank you my dearest friends for your kind and caring messages.
I am doing fine right now. It was a bit scary, especially the wind.
Sandy pulled down our gate, but didn’t hurt anyone inside.
I will return here to visit all of you soon. Need to get some projects done first.
