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You may be an old hand at vitamins and minerals, but are you getting enough phytochemicals in your diet? What’s a phytochemical, anyway? The prefix phyto comes from the Greek for plant. That bit of etymology tips us off to the fact that these substances are found only in plant foods–the less processed, the better. It turns out that many phytochemicals also have health-promoting effects inside the human body. More…