Choosing a good multivitamin can be difficult. Some vitamins are not very bioavailable, meaning the nutrients aren’t absorbed by the body. When you swallow a vitamin, the nutrients have to be able to survive the chemicals of your digestive system and get past the liver to reach the bloodstream. Some vitamins are more bioavailable than others. You might never know this by reading a vitamin label.

Studying an ORAC chart can be quite insightful. While studying the different ORAC values of specific foods I learned a few things

Recently, three health foods have come to my attention that provide health benefits. These foods are not as popular in the media as blueberries or acai, but they have nutritional benefits that should not be ignored.

If you want to improve your health, eat foods higher in antioxidants, and grow in your understanding of how to live a healthy lifestyle, an ORAC chart can help you.

Bite into a crisp apple, yellow, red, or gold; smell it’s sweet aroma….ahhh, it will make you relax. Have you ever wondered why scented candles choose the apple scent so often? It’s because apples remind us of home….and of comfort food. Apple pie, apple sauce, apple crisp, deserts to look forward to. Slice them, dice them, bake them or broil them. Tantalizing apples—they clean your teeth and freshen your breath. Have I convinced you yet? If not read on; apples have many health …

Yes, you can jump for joy that dark chocolate is something you actually should be eating. Don’t you wish the research on dark chocolate had been available when you were a kid? Imagine hearing your parents say, “Honey, you have to finish your chocolate before you can leave the dinner table”. That would have been something!

If I told you a way that you could easily add seven high antioxidant foods to your diet every day, would you try it? One easy way to get foods high in antioxidants into your daily eating plan is to have a salad. You can make it into a main meal by adding protein or just have a side salad. There are many things that can be added to a salad, but I’d like to highlight seven high antioxidant items that can be added to your salads that will give you a powerful antioxidant boost.

It’s amazing that food has the power to protect against ultraviolet rays. Most of us aren’t thinking about this while we eat a slice of pizza, or sip a cup of tea, but the lycopene in the tomato sauce and the polyphenols in a cup of green tea will indeed provide sun protection. This does not mean that we should abandon the use of sunscreen. It just means that we have another tool in our toolbox, so to speak, that will keep us safe from harmful ultraviolet rays.