Last time I talked about using nutrition to reduce your future need for long term care. Today I would like to continue our discussion on nutrition and talk about power foods. These power foods are the foods that have documented positive effects on your long term health. The power foods that I will cover today include deep colored vegetables and fruits and fatty fish.
The first foods that you need to be adding to your shopping cart each week are vegetables and fruits that are deeply colored. Deeply colored vegetables and fruits are beneficial to your health because they tend to have a higher concentration of natural vitamins and minerals than fainter colored vegetables and fruits. Top your shopping list with dark green leafy vegetables like spinach and other greens. If you don’t like the taste of cooked spinach try making a salad with baby spinach. Baby spinach is sweeter, more tender and easier to stomach than mature spinach.
The next group of power foods that you will want to add to your diet are fatty fishes. Fatty fishes include fish like salmons, tuna and mackerel. These fishes contain beneficial fatty acids known as Omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 has been documented as having properties that will reduce your chances of getting certain types of heart diseases and vascular diseases.
There are many health conditions that are caused by unhealthy eating habits that lead to the need for extensive long term care and expensive long term care insurance. You can reduce your chances of developing these problems, and in turn reduce how much you will depend on long term care insurance policies to cover your care in the future, by making changes now.