At the risk of losing my head like Marie Antoinette did
some ten score and seven years ago, my response to the
question,

"What should I feed my kids?," would be:

LET THEM EAT RAINBOWS!

Marie's non-cerebral advice to revolting peasants was
"Let them eat cake." She wasn't referring to petit fours
or eclairs. When food was scarce in France during the
1790s, the miserable people (les miserables) baked
fireplace ashes with wheat and water to form a substance
commonly known as "cake." In our 21st century, there is
a variety and abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables,
even for those people unlucky enough to be living in
Buffalo, New York during record snow falls.

Shining white light through a prism, one is instantly
blessed with the hidden beauty and complex nature of our
universe. A pure white beam of light reveals its inner
essense.

Most people can name the seven visible colors of the
rainbow's spectrum. Violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow,
orange, and red. Of course, there are two other colors,
often forgotten, but always present, ultraviolet and
infra-red.

Animals and insects feel these colors. Plants sense
them, too. While we lack the same receptors and are
blind to their existance, our handicap cannot negate
their influence.

The ultras and infras of plants are magical substances,
indeed! They include plant chemicals, or phyto
chemicals, such as isoflavones and bioflavinoids.
Science teaches us that plants protect themselves from
attack with their own secretions and chemical
messengers. Vegetables repel insects who would eat them,
and blossoms attract other insects with a perfume so
that their pollens can be spread and their species self-
propagate. Plants protect themselves from too much heat,
or cold, or wind, or too much moisture, maintaining
their own good health with their specialized hormones.
Plants can cure their own sicknesses and cancers by
secreting and bathing themselves with these enchanted
essences.

When we eat the plants, we are similarly protected.
Modern science has confirmed the centuries-old
traditions and lore from cultures that refined the
sacred techniques of using foods as medicine.

TODAY'S PERFECT RAINBOW

Eat foods of color. The perfect color can be found right
in the middle of our rainbow, the color green. There is
a pot of gold and jewels within that rainbow, and these
treasures so contained can be cashed in to purchase good
health.

Eat green for wellness.

In the 1980s, scientists first began to explore how
phytochemicals prevent cancers. A great amount of
emphasis was placed upon the fruits and vegetables that
contain vibrant colors. The best known of these wonder
drugs was recognized as beta carotene. That's what gives
carrots their bright orange hue.

In the 1990s, scientists at the University of Minnesota
(Steinmetz, et. al.) categorized different groups of
fruits and vegetables demonstrating life giving, disease
fighting qualities. In doing so, they defined some of
those magic colors, and the phytochemicals so contained
within those pigments.

SOME OF THE MAGICAL COLORS

The violet, indigo and blues of the plant kingdom
include phenols and dithiolthiolnines contained in
eggplant, cruciferous vegetables, grapes, plums, and
grains.

Eat onions and shallots, leeks, scallions and garlic for
cancer-fighting alliums. Those green leafy vegetables
contain flavonoids, and inositol is found in beans.
Green fruits and veggies contain phenols, and plant
sterols, protease inhibitors and saponins.

Yellow limonines contained in citrus fruit and squash
have also been identified as cancer fighters, as have
the orange carotines in carrots, and my all-time
favorite vitamin pill, the cantaloupe. Balancing out the
rainbow's spectrum would be the red phenols in peppers,
radishes, and tomatoes.

Tens of thousands of unique substances have been
identified, and there are still plant hormones and
enzymes yet to be discovered.

Remarkably, the one plant containing the greatest amount
of these wonderful phytochemicals is the soybean.
Soybeans contain coumarins, flavonoids, inositol,
isoflavones, lignans, phenols, plant sterols, protease
inhibitors, saponins, and Omega 3 and Omega 6 oils.

For many years, it has been said that "an apple a day
keeps the doctor away." Such wisdom! Each day of one's
life should reflect a lifestyle that includes this
maxim:

For the best of health eat a rainbow today!

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