Eat rainbow diet

We all like rainbow, we feel happiness when we see rainbow. We also want to be fit, slim and healthy; you can achieve your health goals by accepting rainbow in your life. Have you ever think, shall we eat rainbow? And the answer is yes we can. HOW? YES, we cannot eat rainbow but nature made rainbow for us inform of giving us different vegetables and fruits.

If you see in your surroundings there are different types and colours of vegetables, fruits, flowers, grains which are beautiful different colours, and this is an ideal arrangement of nature for you. Which give you health and fitness?

You can see different colours of food in your surroundings like red colour tomato, green colour leafy veggies, yellow colour of plum, brinjal. And many others the list is so long. Eating rainbow is a healthy eating tip. Our body is benefit from variety of food and for optimal health we need to add rainbow of nutrients and colours.

The colour of your food can tell you a lot about its nutrition value and also eating variety of colours is give so many of those vitamins and minerals. So let’s understand how it is helpful.

The relation between colour and nutritional value:

1. Green colour:

Green food options are spinach, cucumbers, green leafy vegetables and peas etc. Chlorophyll are main content of green food which represent sun’s energy, which helps prevent cancer, detox your liver, maintain weight because of high amount of fiber contains and also protect our skin and increased immunity due to its anti-viral properties.

 

Green foods are high in minerals and help to remove toxins from your body.

2. Red colour:

Red food options are tomato, beetroot, water melon, strawberries, etc. Red colour tomato contains ‘lycopene’ which is rich antioxidant. Beetroot and pomegranate contains anthocyanin and betacycin, this chemical has powerful antibacterial properties. And is powerful cancer preventing agent.

3. Orange and yellow colour:

Yellow and orange food options are lemon, carrots, turmeric, yellow-peppers, corn, papaya, banana, mango, etc.

Orange foods contains beta carotene which helps body in production of VITAMIN A which helps body to maintain cholesterol level and also lowers the risk of cancer, heart disease. It also acts like blood purifier and increased haemoglobin. Vitamin A is also increase strength of RETINA, and helps in improving eye-sight.

Foods like banana, potato, mango etc contains aenthoxanthin because of its yellow colour. Which help to protect against cancer? Yellow corn contains LUTINE, which helps to prevent MACULAR DEGENERATION and boost vision and eye health.

Yellow turmeric contains CUREQUMINE named chemical substance which also prevent cancer and all above are best source of anti-oxidant.

4. Blue & purple:

Brinjal, grapes, jambu, etc contains anthocyanin, which lower the risk of cancer and urinary tract infection (UTI). These types of foods increased heart health by reducing cholesterol, fights obesity.

5. White colour:

White foods are like cauliflower, onion, radish, garlic etc.

White foods contain XANTHONE, which has best anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory properties, which prevents heart disease and boost immune system. It prevents risk of cancer.

As we all know garlic and onion have anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. Garlic contains ALLICIN which lowers blood sugar and prevents cardiovascular attacks.

White colour food helps to clean the kidney and remove toxins from your body.

Just remember these things:

• Plants have its own immunity properties to fight against different bacteria’s, viruses, against excessive sun heat and different types of chemicals, and for these plants have PHYTOCHEMICALS like substances as protective against these above mention factors. These phytochemical substances are like anthocyanin, beta cynine, beta carotene, lycopene, lutine, xanthone, allicin, chlorophyll, etc, and by eating different parts of plants like seeds, fruits, flowers, leaves, etc in your food, these also protect you naturally.
• By accepting this RAINBOW DIET in your food will obviously improve your health and protect you-self from different diseases, in addition it also helps you to lose weight.
• So just start eating enough red, yellow, green orange, and other colours fruits and veggies, what is your opinion on the rainbow diet? Let me know your opinion in the comment below.

Stay fit stays healthy.