There are serious movements all around us to “go green” and find healthy, natural alternatives for better health. Joint pain can be a very discouraging issue to deal with in day-to-day life, as well as the multitude of other items we have to worry about while working toward a healthier lifestyle. Pain in joints can be relieved by just improving our overall health. Nature has all the answers if we will just take the time to stop and look for them. The following information came to me in quite the modern way: through an e-mail. Yet it is information that has been available to us for centuries. Here are some things to keep in mind when choosing foods for a healthy body:

1. A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. Interestingly enough, carrots greatly enhance blood flow to, as well as function of, the eyes.
2. A Tomato is read and has four chambers—just like our heart. Tomatoes are loaded with lycopene, which has been shown to be beneficial to the heart.
3. Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. In addition, each grape looks like a blood cell. All of the research today shows grapes to be a vitalizing food for heart and blood function.
4. A Walnut looks like a little brain. It’s divided into a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three-dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
5. Kidney Beans do more than just look like the human kidney—they actually heal and help maintain kidney function as well.
6. Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit--an exact replica of a woman’s birth cycle! There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
7. Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
8. Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.
9. The layers of an Onion look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears, which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.

By implementing any or all of these foods into our diet we can greatly increase our overall health. It is a fact that by carrying around extra weight we are also adding extra stress to those already painful joints. There is an increasing amount of research showing that another natural supplement, CFA’s (or Cetylated Fatty Acids), can help to specifically reduce the pain and stiffness found in inflamed joints. Bon appetite and good health!