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Hi I’m Candy *** a Dietician with Sharp Healthcare, and today we’re going to talk
about why you need color in your diet. Where do we get the colors? Fruits and vegetables
and those beans provide all the colors we need. And why do we need them? They are chock
full of antioxidants. And what do they do? They build your immune system; they help protect
you from heart disease, cancer, strokes, and also macro nuclear degeneration, a form of
blindness that affects older people. In addition the fruits and vegetables are loaded with
potassium. And that’s one of the biggest blood pressure protectors out there in nature.
And also in addition to the potassium that’s in the fruits and vegetables, there’s lots
of boron, helps build your bones. So between your immunity, heart disease, cancer, prevention
of strokes fruits and vegetables are laden with antioxidants. If you get a multiple vitamin
that says contain antioxidants, it may contain one or two. But looking at what we have here,
this has hundreds, if not thousands of antioxidants that you need to protect your body from disease
and to build your immunity. So how do you do that? In any given week you want to make
sure you collect a rainbow of color, by having the reds, the orange, the yellows, the greens,
the blues and the violets. And if you eat a rainbow, frequently you’ll get all the
antioxidants you need. You’ll get the potassium and you’ll get all the things that help
protect you. So now you know how to get all the colors and the antioxidants in your diet.
Make sure you eat a rainbow every week.