Five simple foods safeguard your health

Keeping in good shape is the lifete career of many people. Tried many methods but your weight remains stable. How to keep slim while ensuring your daily nutritional requirement? Perhaps you should start from your daily diet. Always remember that healthy weight loss won’t take a toll on your healthy body.

1. Super Fiber -- Konjac. Konjac fiber has multiple benefits. Konjac is much more viscous than usual fibers, retaining up to 17 times its weight in water. Expanding in the stomach and the small and large intestine, it absorbs fat, accelerates elimination, reduces cholesterol, blunts sugar absorption and facilitates weight loss, in part by increasing feelings of satiety. It works well for preventing extra fat ibtake, and you can try fruta planta instead if you dislike its taste.

2. A Wonder of the Sea -- Arame. It is a marine brown algae or sea vegetable that can be added to soups or made into a sea vegetable salad. It is rich in minerals calcium, iron, zinc, manganese, folate, vitamins A and K and iodine. It also boosts immunity.

3. Healing from the Earth -- Shitake Mushrooms. The earthy shitake or Chinese black mushrooms boost immunity through special polysaccharide molecules and can help prevent cancer. They are also full of minerals, especially iron, and they appear to decrease binding of immune cells to your arterial wall, preventing atherosclerosis. Aside from exposure to the sun and eating herring, mushrooms are one of the few ways you can get vitamin D.

4. White Meat in Vegetables -- White Turnip. It contains digestive enzymes that help you break down food, and they contain myrosinase that boosts detoxification of environmental chemicals. Daikon is high in vitamin C and folate. Like its relatives broccoli, cabbage and kale, daikon is a cruciferous vegetable that offers cancer-protecting potential. It can be grated and eaten raw in salads, or in stir-frys or soups.

5. A New Kind of Pickle -- Umeboshi Plums. These red little Japanese plums add a perky taste to stir-frys and soups. Japanese pickled plums have remarkable medicinal qualities. Their acidity has a paradoxical alkalinizing effect on the body, helping with fatigue, enhancing digestion and boosting the elimination of toxins.