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Tonawanda Healthy Phytonutrients in Late Summer Veggies & Fruits

Vegetable or Fruit? Tomato? Zucchini? Green Beans? Ok. The green beans are a freebie. They are vegetables! But the tomato and zucchini are actually fruits though they are often mixed in dishes thought to be vegetable based. No problem! Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation does not mind a bit. A healthy Tonawanda chiropractic treatment plan incorporates them all…right beside the spinal manipulation. As long as you enjoy eating fruits and vegetables packed with phytonutrients, you are doing your body a favor! And late summer in the northern hemisphere at any rate is the opportune time to enjoy these direct-out-of-the-garden delights!

PHYTONUTRIENTS

Your Tonawanda chiropractor has a fondness for phytonutrients! Fruits and vegetables are packed with phytonutrients, nature’s natural chemicals that shield plants from bugs, fungi, germs, and other such problems. We humans eat these fruits and vegetables and benefit from their phytonutrients, too! The more than 25,000 phytonutrients support the body to make sure it is in good working shape and help avert disease. Phytonutrients you’ve probably heard of are carotenoids (red, orange and yellow color-creating), flavonoids (cancer-preventing, asthma/cancer/heart disease risk-reducing), and reservatrol (anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, heart disease and cancer preventing). (1) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation reminds that eating all the fresh fruits and vegetables this summer will do us all some good.

Tonawanda CHIROPRACTIC NUTRITION TIP: ENJOY FALL FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

Lots of Tonawanda farmers and backyard gardeners are generously giving away their bounty! Tomatoes, zucchini and beans abound! Seize the opportunity to take in all of the tomatoes’ nutrients like potassium, vitamin C and vitamin A and phytonutrients that may decrease prostate cancer risk, reinforce heart and eyesight health, protect skin against sun damage. (2) A recent study just reported on the benefit of eating more tomatoes, cruciferous vegetables, garlic, and citrus fruits in decreasing colorectal cancer. (3) Green beans serve up vitamins K, C, A and B’s folate, riboflavin, thiamin and minerals copper and magnesium to shore up brain function, cellular damage repair, and bone health. All that in just a few calories packed with some protein! (4) Zucchini offers much the same – few calories, high protein, many vitamins (C, B6, A, folate, riboflavin and thiamin) plus manganese, magnesium, phosphorous, and potassium. As a matter of fact, a cup of zucchini provides 24% of the daily need for vitamin C! That is good for cell protection, cancer prevention, improved skin. (5) Do not refuse those garden gifts! Enjoy some tasty phytonutrients in these late summer garden goodies. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation cannot think of a better way to complement your body’s health! Good nutrition and a good chiropractic treatment go together well!

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Lee Hazen and Cheri Hazen on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they describe their successful incorporation of nutrition and Cox® Technic to best take care of their patients.

Schedule your Tonawanda chiropractic appointment today. The health of your spine and body are important to us! Fruit? Vegetable? Doesn’t matter! Eat them up! Enjoy these phytonutrient marvels that can only help your healthy chiropractic treatment plan.

 
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation shares research on the benefits of phytonutrient-filled fruits and vegetables.  
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