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"  Eating healthy is good for more than just your waistline. Certain foods are packed with vitamins and minerals, offering a variety of head-to-toe health benefits that you may not even realize. With the advice of David Grotto, RD, LDN, author of 101 Optimal Life Foods, here are five foods that can help boost your health.   1. Protect your skin with a cup of strawberries. Just one cup provides 160 percent of the RDA (recommended daily allowance) for vitamin C\u2014a necessary element to make collagen, which gives your skin its firmness and elasticity. Vitamin C also prevents premature aging by decreasing free radicals and lessening the effects of sun, stress and the elements. Eat a cup per day to keep skin looking younger for longer.    2. Reduce muscle pain with cherries (or pure cherry juice). Ellagic acid, a substance found in cherries, works as a very powerful anti-inflammatory for those suffering from muscle soreness. Just one cup of cherries or pure cherry juice is usually enough to get relief.    3. Improve vision with spinach. Although most people immediately think of carrots for healthy vision, a cup of spinach actually has a higher amount of beta-carotene. This compound converts into cornea-protecting vitamin A once in your body. Aim for three to four servings per week for optimal eye health.    4. Get blood pumping with oats. High in a circulation-boosting amino acid called arginine, a bowl of oatmeal helps increase blood flow to all parts of the body. Better blood flow can result in lower cholesterol as well as an increased libido. Try to eat a cup of oats for breakfast a few times every week.    5. Banish bad breath with cinnamon. This spice\u2014along with other herbs and spices such as basil, wasabi and cilantro\u2014kills bacteria that grow on your tongue and in the back of your mouth, contributing to unpleasant odors. Sprinkle cinnamon onto your yogurt or cereal daily.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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