The Magnificant Seven
My favorite all-time movie.
I've seen it dozens of times.
That's the film with the "Marlboro theme song."
Seven cowboys ride into a Mexican village and save the day by defeating tyranny. Seven magical characters. Seven stars of the silver screen, including Steve McQueen, Yul Brenner, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Horst Buchholz, and, who was that seventh guy, the one who gets the girl?
In any event, today's column is about seven
super-stars in the plant kingdom. Foods that
should form the backbone of everybody's diet.
Magic foods that contain enormous amounts
of plant chemicals including isoflavones,
phytochemicals, and bioflavinoids. Vitamins,
enzymes, minerals, and nutrients.
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
In alphabetical order - apples, bananas, broccoli,
cantaloupe, carrots, oranges, and soybeans.
THE PERFECT FOOD FOR BABY HUMANS
Human breast milk - H milk - provides everything for
humans under the age of one year. Milk from
a nursing mother is nature's perfect formula
for infants.
I compared some of the
key elements of human breast milk (seven
hundred grams) to one hundred grams of each
of the magnificent plant foods.
Does an apple a day keep the doctor away?
You decide the benefits after reviewing this
information:
A diet consisting of 700 grams of the
magnificent seven (Mag-7) contains less calories
than the seven hundred grams of human breast milk
(H-Milk), 490 to 476.
The Mag-7 contains more than 3 times as much protein
and 2.8 times as much essential fat (omega 3, omega 6),
and 78% more carbohydrates as does H-milk.
The H-milk does contain more calcium, 224 milligrams
to 196 milligrams for the Mag-7, but the Mag-7
has nearly 35 times as much iron, 9 times as much
magnesium, 8 times as much manganese, 4 times as
much potassium, twice as much sodium, phosphorus,
zinc, and copper, and about ten percent more selenium.
HOW ABOUT VITAMINS?
The Mag-7 group contains 6 times as much vitamin C as
does the H-milk. Mag-7 also contains 5 times as much
thiamin and folate, 20 times as much vitamin A, 17
times as much vitamin B-6, and nearly 3 times the
levels of niacin and riboflavin.
I am not suggesting that human adults drink
human breast milk. We have better foods. Fresh
fruits and vegetables, and sprouted legumes.
The Magnificent Seven insured the health and safety
of the peace-loving peasants by defeating invading
banditos, and the magnificent 7 plant-based foods will
protect you from a more powerful group of invaders--
cancer, osteoporosis, and heart disease.
Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
All about the negative to deadly aspects of consuming cows milk.
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