Hello, Health Champions, Today We're Going To Talk About The Top 10 Healthiest Foods. With This Article, You're Going To Have A Brand New Perspective On What Healthy Food Is, Plus We're Going To Debunk One Of The Big Nutrition Myths On The Internet Today, Food Number 10. Is Romaine
Lettuce And These Are In No Particular Order, So Romaine Lettuce Has A Bunch Of Different Minerals.
Like Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Etc It Has Some Zinc and Manganese Selenium. Has A Bunch Of B Vitamins
And It Has A Good Bit Of vitamin C And Vitamins. K, So When We Look At The Percentages, We See That
The Minerals Are Going To Range In The Two to Three Percent Range And The Vitamins Are Going
To Be Between Two And Seven, vitamin C Is About 10 Percent of vitamin K About 70 Percent Of The Recommended Daily Allowance, So You're Getting A Lot Of Different Things, And There Are More Things, Than That In There. But We Want To Stay Away From Picking One Food.
And Say That This Is The Best Food Or These Are The Top 10 Foods Because Then We Think That If They Didn't Make The List Then It Must Not Be, So Great, And Here's The Thing That You Still Have
To Eat A Lot Of These Different Servings, So If You Eat Seven Or Eight Servings Of Leafy Greens
You're Gonna Make A Substantial Contribution To The Nutrients That You Need. But We Don't Want
To Exclude Everything Else, And That's What Happens When We Play Favorites. So We Want To Keep In Mind
That Arugula And Leafy Greens And Kale Swiss Chard. Spring Mixes All Have Similar Nutrients All
Right, Some Might Be One Percent Higher Or One Percent Lower. But Overall They're
Very Similar, So We Don't Want To Play. Favorites Now A Lot Of People Love Spinach.
And It's A Part Of A Lot Of Different Mixes, So This Is Okay For Most People, But A Lot Of People Are Also Sensitive To Oxalate. So I Asked A Question. Mark On Spinach Because It's One Of Those You Want
Be A Little Bit Careful With Another Thing We Want To Try To Get Away From Is Focusing Too On The Numbers, Because What Is The RDA, Recommended Daily Allowance? Well, It's Someone's Opinion Or Conclusion About How Many Nutrients We Need. But Here Are, Some Of The Limitations First
Of All, There's A Difference Between A Deficiency Amount And The Optimal Amount, So If They Check the A
Nutrients And They Say Below This Level You Get A Deficiency Symptom, Then What Amount Is The
Optimal? We Don't Really Know. The Second Thing Is That They Don't Test These On Humans Because
It's Costly It's Complicated And It's Unethical, So Most Of The Studies Have Been Done On Mice.
That They Work The Same Way As Humans And Then They Just Extrapolate The Results The Third Thing And Maybe The Biggest Is That They Always Test These On Synthetic Nutrients In Isolated
Synthetic Nutrients And When We Get The Nutrients From The Food It Might Be A Completely Different
Story Number Four Is Gut Flora, So Everyone Has A Different Gut Flora And How Healthy Yours Is It's
Going To Determine How Many Of Those Nutrients You Actually Absorb And How Effectively You Use Them.
We Can Also Have Different Foods Interact With Each Other And Affect How Things Are Absorbed, We Can Have Anti-nutrients. Some Foods Contain Chemical Compounds That Prevent The Body From
Absorbing And Using Nutrients In Different Climates Can Affect How Much You Need If You Live In A Very Hot Climate. You Might Sweat And Lose A Lot Of Minerals. If You Live In A Cold Climate, You Might
Need More Of Certain Things. Also, If You're Very Physically Active, You Might Need More Nutrients.
Or If You're Emotionally Stressed, You Might Need More Nutrients. Requirements Can Change.
Dramatically If You Have A Chronic Disease Or A Metabolic Problem And If You're On Some Kind Of
Medication Can Also Affect What You Need And How Much You Absorb, So Basically What I'm
Saying Is That, Yes, It's Important We Don't Want To Ignore The RNA, But We Can't Look At That Number As
A Truth. Either We Have To Understand That There Are Very Broad Ranges And We Don't Know To What Extent They Apply To Us. So We Want To Think About It A Little Differently, Which Is What We're Going To Talk About In This Video. Number Nine Again, In No Particular Order, Is Extra Virgin
Olive Oil And If You Read Up A Little Bit On It, They're Going To Tell You That It Can Reduce
Inflammation Can Protect You From Heart Disease Or Cardiovascular Disease. They'll Tell You
It Can Protect The Endothelium Inside Blood Vessels. You'll Hear That It Can Reduce Bad LDL,
The Oxidized Damaged LDL, Can Reduce Blood Clotting And It Can Reduce Blood Pressure And
I'm Not Saying That There's Anything Wrong With Those Claims, But The Question Is Compared To What
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Became Super Popular When They Figured Out That People Around The
The Mediterranean Had Less Heart Disease.
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