Spinach – The Health Powerhouse

If you’re looking for a vegetable with super healing powers, try spinach. It’s packed with vitamins, antioxidants, and minerals that will protect you from many diseases. Spinach contains many antioxidants, including beta and alpha carotenes, potassium, magnesium, vitamin K, and folic acid. Recent studies at two major universities have found that as strange as it seems, eating spinach may lower your risk of strokes, colon cancer, cataracts, heart disease, osteoporosis, hip fractures, memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease, depression and even birth defects.

Spinach also contains two additional powerful antioxidants, lutein and zeaxanthin, which have been reported to protect against age-related cataracts and macular degeneration. All of these disease-fighting properties contained in spinach are better absorbed when spinach is cooked with a little olive oil.