If you’re anything like me, you may have trouble remembering what foods are good for what. In the past few years, research has uncovered foods as preventative medicines. There are so many, so the following list is a good way to remember them. It came from my sister in Nashville who works for the Vanderbilt health system.

Just picture:

* A slice of carrot. It looks like the human eye — the pupil, iris and radiating lines. And science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

* A tomato slice. It has four “chambers” and is red, just like the heart. All research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

* A cluster of grapes. They hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and research shows grapes are also profound heart and blood-vitalizing food.

* A walnut. It looks like a little brain, 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.

* Kidney beans. They actually look like the human kidney and heal and help maintain kidney function.

* Celery, bok choy and rhubarb. All three look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23 percent sodium, and these foods are 23 percent sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

* Avocados, eggplant and pears. They look like the womb and target the health and function of the womb and cervix. 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. 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.

* Sweet potatoes. They look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

* Olives. The little gems assist the health and function of the ovaries

* Oranges, grapefruits, and other citrus fruits. They look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

* Onions. They look like the body’s cells. 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. A working companion, garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.