Superfood Broccoli to Keep You Forever Young

Apparently, a new type of broccoli helps up your metabolism and fight aging.

Regular old broccoli just isn’t good enough anymore. The AAP reports that there’s a new type of broccoli in town, this one with more than two times the amount of anti-aging compound glucoraphanin. Sorry, boring broccoli.

Word is that Beneforté broccoli, which was developed through cross-pollination and selection to combine commercial broccoli with wild broccoli, has an increased ability to produce more phytonutrients like glucoraphanin, nutrients which often help improve the performance of mitochondria cells.

“Tiny energy generators in cells called mitochondria, which become less efficient with age, were given a new lease of life and had their performance improved,” AAP reports.

Researchers tested the effects of Beneforté, recruiting 48 volunteers to have them eat either Beneforté, regular broccoli, or peas for three months. The resulting blood tests found that the Beneforté group had improved metabolism, and less inflammation in their blood.

Other “cruciferous” vegetables with glucoraphanin include kale, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower, but Beneforté even out-crucifers those. According to the website, Beneforté has 270 percent of the glucaoraphanin found in regular broccoli; kale only has 1 percent of what regular broccoli has. We guess the kid-friendly classic wins this round.

NEVER eat this Cereal

Cereal is, by and large, one of the worst foods for your waistline, and your health. There are of course a few rare exceptions (like some of the cereals in the Ezekiel 4:9® line from the good folks at Food for Life®) but when it comes to the "regular" boxes that stock the shelves of the cereal aisle at your local grocery store, it's generally all very, very bad news.

Perhaps what is most disturbing about so many brands of cereal is that they confuse the heck out of consumers by making them "sound" so healthy and nutritious, when in reality they are anything but.

For example, while at the grocery store today I came across a "Yogurt Berry Crunch" cereal (with added fiber!) from a popular brand.

It sure sounds healthy...

In fact, the label even makes claims like "heart healthy!" and points out that it contains "25 grams of whole grains". "Rich in antioxidants, vitamin C & E", too. Just add up all those health benefits!

But here's the truth:

This so-called "healthy" cereal contains FIFTY ONE ingredients, including not one, not two, not six, not seven, but TEN different sources of SUGAR.

It also contains SEVEN corn derived ingredients (very likely from genetically modified corn), including corn syrup and corn starch.

It's also loaded with inflammatory wheat ingredients and gluten, not to mention two of the worst damaged, denatured oils you can consume...canola oil and soybean oil.

Healthy? I don't think so!

Unfortunately, just about everything else in the cereal aisle is in the same boat as this disastrously unhealthy 51-ingredient nightmare.

Instead, try an alternative "Yogurt Berry Crunch" that only contains three 100% all-natural ingredients:

-Greek Yogurt
-Rolled Oats
-Fresh Berries

Combine and enjoy!

Simply put, you MUST eliminate these disasterous boxed foods from your home and start consuming whole, natural, REAL foods if your goal is to get a flat belly fast.

Better yet, just follow the drop dead simple meal plan Biotrust lays out for you at the link below. It's so simple...after all, Biotrust will tell you EXACTLY what to eat, meal by meal right here:

==> EXACTLY what to eat for rapid fatloss (meal by meal)

Beware of this food label SCAM

When it comes to food labels, manufacturers are very good at finding the loopholes in labeling laws and requirements, and subsequently very good at pulling the wool over YOUR eyes.  One such loophole is the manufacturer's ability to claim "zero" grams of fat, or zero grams of trans fat, or zero calories on the label, when in fact the product does indeed contain plenty of fat, trans fat, and/or calories.

Here's the law, and how food manufacturers get around it:

Zero grams of fat or zero grams of trans fat:  As long as the food item has less than .5g of fat or trans fat, respectively, the label does not need to claim their existence on the label.  In fact, the product can even legally market "Zero grams of fat!" or "0g of trans fat per serving!"

More on why this is a HUGE problem, and how food manfacturers deepen this loophole in just a minute.

Zero calories per serving:  As long as the food item has less than 5 calories per serving, it can be rounded down and labeled 0 calories.
  

Deepening the Loophole with Unrealistic Serving Sizes

While .5g of fat or 5 calories may not seem like a big deal, remember that these values are "per serving", and while an entire package, box, can, or bottle of a product may contain hundreds of calories and loads of fat, as long as they can divide that package into small enough servings to meet the calorie and gram requirements to claim zero, it's legal.

Legal AND deceptive as hell.

We don't know about you, but we get angry when we see food manufacturers outright LYING to consumers on their labels and in the nutrition facts.  Some of these products should change the Nutrition Facts header to "Nutrition Lies" and it'd actually be a lot more accurate.

You see, at BioTrust they provide you with honest nutrition advice and products, and as such, here are there "Top 3 Violators" of this deceptive food labeling practice.

1. Cooking Sprays and Butter Sprays - Cooking sprays are labeled as fat-free but their first ingredient is oil, which is 100% fat.  How in the world can this be?  Well, the serving size is 1/5th of a second.  What?  Last time we used a cooking spray (some of the organic ones are useful) it took about 3 seconds to lightly coat the surface of the pan.  Well, according to the manufacturer, we just used 15 servings.

Bottom line, no one uses the ridiculous and absurd microscopic 1/5th of second spray suggested serving, which isn't nearly enough product to be of practical use.

Cooking sprays aren't fat-free...they are nearly 100% fat.  In my example above, a realistic serving actually contains around 5 grams of fat and 45 calories.  A far cry from the 0 number reported on their nutrition facts.

Same goes for butter sprays, which are 90%+ fat in most cases.  For example, one popular brand of butter spray contains over 800 calories and 90g of fat per bottle, yet it's labeled as a fat-free, calorie-free product!  Yeah, right!

The serving size?  One spray.  Let's get real here...no one is using one spray, or five sprays, or 10 sprays.  In fact, twenty-five sprays equals just one teaspoon, when the servings size for regular butter is 1 tablespoon.  When you balance out the serving size to be the same as a serving of butter, you're looking at 75 sprays to get the same amount.

2.  Artificial sweeteners - Not only are artificial sweeteners bad news for you health, but they're also a top violator of "calorie free" deceptive labeling practices.  Many brands of artificial sweeteners use maltodextrin and/or dextrose (which is pure sugar) as fillers in each packet, and each packet can legally contain up to a full gram of sugar and 5 calories and still be labeled as calorie free.

They have seen people put 3 - 5 packets of this stuff in their coffee or on their cereal...hardly calorie free and even worse, maltodextrin and dextrose are two of the biggest insulin-spiking carbs around -- the entire reason people choose artificial sweeteners over sugar in the first place!

To learn more about how the popular artificial sweetener sucralose (known commonly as Splenda®) can destroy your health, click here. 

3.  Any food that contains "partially hydrogenated" oils in the ingredient list, period.  Bottom line, you should have a zero-tolerance attitude toward trans fats.  They are the most health-derailing nutrient known to man, and you should be truly consuming ZERO grams per day.

If a product claims "Zero grams of trans fat per serving", especially if they speficy "per serving", they are almost always playing the serving size game and you're very likely to see partially hydrogenated oils on the list of ingredients when you flip the package over.  If so, avoid it like the plague.

But perhaps even worse than trans fat is a food that you are likely eating every single day that has been linked to over 170 negative health conditions, including obesity and weight gain.  Whatever you do, make sure you limit your intake of this "anti-nutrient" immediately:

==> The #1 WORST food for your health and waistline (AVOID)