Great Foods For Fighting Fibroids

Certain foods are excellent choices for helping us to boost our immune system, burn fat and generally help our bodies operate at peak fitness.

However certain foods when combined together increase or multiply benefits many times over and help maximise our health.

Great foods to combine for better health are:

Vitamin C and Iron

Some women with fibroids who experience unusually heavy bleeding during their periods may become anemic.

Combining iron-rich foods (leafy greens, artichokes and legumes) with those packed with vitamin C (tomatoes, peppers, citrus and leafy greens) helps your body absorb iron more efficiently.

Green Tea with Lemon

Adding lemon juice to green tea increases the benefit of the powerful catechins green tea contains – making the tea five times stronger!

Further more I find green tea an ‘acquired taste’ so by adding lemon, it makes this wonderful healing tea much more palatable.

Purdue University discovered that adding lemon to green tea also slowed the breakdown of *anti-oxidants in your digestive system so your body achieved more complete absorption.

People who drink green tea daily tend to lose ten pounds more per year than those who don’t.

A study conducted at the University of Geneva found that eating a salad with a cup of green tea as your last meal stops your body from storing excess fat and boosts your metabolism by 4% while you sleep.

According to a study published in 2010 in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology a substance in green tea appears to significantly shrink the size of uterine fibroids.

Salads and Fats

Salads that contain leafy greens (such as baby leaf spinach) and tomatoes are rich in carotenoid anti-oxidants. Your body will absorb these *anti-oxidants better if you add olive oil or avocado - healthy fats that are not only heart-healthy but delicious.

Avocados and Tomatoes

Researchers at Ohio State University discovered that the mono-unsaturated fat found in avocados boosts the cancer-fighting properties of lycopene found in tomatoes – making it four times more effective.

Beta-carotene is proven to boost overall immunity and is three times more effective when combined with fresh avocado.  Add avocado to a salad or make salsa and guacamole for a powerful anti-oxidant snack.

Dark Chocolate and Apples

Apples are rich in quercetin (it is also found in green tea!) – an anti-inflammatory - excellent for fighting fibroids.

Dark chocolate (try to eat 85% or higher cocoa content and preferably organic) contains powerful *anti-oxidants called flavonoids. Eaten in moderation, this pairing of foods forms a tasty snack that fights blood clots, improves circulation and reduces your chances of heart disease.

Vegetables and Water

Vegetables are naturally high in vitamins and nutrients, low in calories and provide *anti-oxidants that boost the immune system, increase energy and improve your metabolism.

Adding healthy non starchy vegetables to your diet will increase your fiber intake and improve your gut bacteria.  Making sure you’re properly hydrated will positively impact on every cell in your body and keep you out of the 75% of Americans who are chronically dehydrated!

By choosing healthy nutrient rich foods you will reduce inflammation (inflammation causes fibroids), slow aging, improve heart and brain health, control your weight and help prevent and fight disease.

*Anti-oxidants:  are substances that may protect your cells against the effects of free radicals. Free radicals are molecules produced when your body breaks down food, or by environmental exposures like tobacco smoke and radiation. Free radicals can damage cells, and may play a role in heart disease, cancer and other diseases.

Antioxidant substances include

Beta-carotene

Lutein

Lycopene

Selenium

Vitamin A

Vitamin C

Vitamin E

Antioxidants are found in many foods. These include fruits and vegetables, nuts, grains, and some meats, poultry and fish.