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Color code: getting nutritious fruits and vegetables into your body is easy when you pick foods by their colors.(nutrition)

Publication: Scholastic Choices
Publication Date: 01-APR-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Everyone knows it's important to maintain a balanced diet if you want live a long, active life. But sometimes figuring out which foods give you what nutrients can be tough. After talking to Susan Bowerman, MS, RD, who is assistant director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition and co-author...

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...of the book What Color is Your Diet?, Choices came up with a foolproof method that makes getting--and staying--healthy that much simpler: Eat by color!

The key to eating by color is to understand the notion that each fruit or vegetable, whether it's blue, red, or green, is made up of a different combination of phytochemicals. Phytochemicals are non-nutritive plant substances that have disease-prevention properties and give each piece of produce its specific color. "Each of the color groups of foods offers different health benefits to the body," Bowerman says. Therefore, by consuming a variety of...

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