Discover the beneficial properties of fruits and vegetables and how to select a rainbow of colors to ensure you gain the entire range of benefits they offer.<\/p>\n
When choosing vegetables and fruits, select a rainbow of colors to ensure you gain the entire range of benefits they offer. The various pigments in plants confer particular health benefits.<\/p>\n
Vegetables also help raise mineral levels in the body — provided there are enough fat-soluble vitamins A and D in the diet to assimilate the minerals. Because individuals who have excessive levels of some minerals are usually deficient in others, they need to eat more of the vegetables that will normalize their deficient mineral levels and less of those that contain large amounts of the minerals in which they are oversupplied. Because it is in the pigment of plants that many of the minerals and other nutrients in plants are stored, the choice of vegetables depends to some extent upon color. For example, anyone with a potassium deficiency needs green, leafy plants because the dark green pigment in these leafy plants contains high levels of potassium; on the other hand, eating white, orange, yellow, and light green plants increases calcium levels in the body. When we lack a particular nutrient, we also lack one of the pigments that store this nutrient.<\/p>\n
Copyright \u00a9 2006 Felicia Drury Kliment <\/strong><\/p>\n About the Author<\/span> Discover the beneficial properties of fruits and vegetables and how to select a rainbow of colors to ensure you gain the entire range of benefits they offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellanea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nFelicia Drury Kliment<\/strong> is a nutritional consultant in private practice and the author of the acclaimed book The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"