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Men’s Fitness magazine featured sweet potatoes as their “fit food” for October 2007.  The following list gives you six reasons why you should add sweet potatoes to your diet.

• Carotenoids - plant compounds help fight cell damage that happens in everyday life and during physical activities like a work out
• Vitamin E - prevents free radicals from coverting LDL (bad) cholesterol into artery-clogging particles
• Potassium - necessary for muscle contraction, bone health, nerve transmission, water balance, and healthy blood pressure (higher potassium content than bananas)
• Fiber - keeps you satisfied
• Copper - helps produce connective tissue such as collagen which keeps your skin looking young and your muscles healthy
• Quercetin - this phytonutrient helps your body fight allergies (for example, asthma and hay fever)

Ref: Men’s Fitness, October 2007, p. 30

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