Feel Better With More Beta

Do you detox (hot yoga, lots of water, vegetable juice fasts), just to turn around and retox (cocktails, followed by more cocktails, followed by greasy food)?

If so, or even if not, there's always room for a little more antioxidant protection. And one of the best is beta carotene. But hold on a hot minute there. Before you start running out to get a bottle of the stuff (no, not that stuff, the beta carotene), you should know that the best way to incorporate this superstar into your diet is via natural food sources. Lucky for all of us, there is a plethora of fruits and veggies — not just carrots — to give you this beta boost which helps in protecting your cells, stimulates the immune system and keeps the reproductive system healthy.

The Daily Green gives us their top 10 sources according to the USDA along with tasty vitamin A-rich recipes for things like Ginger Pumpkin Flan (half a cup of canned pumpkin has 953 mg of vitamin A and only 42 calories, by the way).

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