Healthy Food

  Butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata), which belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family of cucurbits or gourds, is also called winter or pumpkin squash. A good source of vitamin C, butternut squash is also rich in carotenoids and minerals. Butternut squash has complex carbohydrates and significant amounts of iron,…
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Too much drug usage leads to disturbances in the immunity that often affects the health. People need to lessen their use of pharmaceutical drugs and try to use more natural products to optimize their immune system and hinder the prevalence of side effects that opioids cause. This is where the onion comes in.…
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  It’s widely known that drinking cranberry juice is helpful for urinary tract infections, but have you ever wondered why this is so? Folk remedies are increasingly validated by science, and so it is that cranberries really are great for infections – and that’s the just the beginning of the storied benefits of…
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  You have probably heard of superfoods like garlic, ginger, and turmeric. But there are many other foods and medicinal plants with powerful healing properties that are far from popular. Medicinal mushrooms are excellent means of improving vitality and restoring the body to a healthy balance. In particular, the extract from…
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  Cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra said the secret behind the “world’s healthiest village”, which can be found in the village of Pioppi in southern Italy, was as simply as consuming less sugar. Malhotra, a self-confessed ex-sugar addict, has immersed himself in the study of the factors contributing…
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Some of the most powerful medicines on the planet are masquerading around as foods and spices. While they do not lend themselves to being patented, nor will multi-billion dollar human clinical trials ever be funded to prove them efficacious, they have been used since time immemorial to both nourish our bodies, and to prevent and treat…
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  Research outside of the United States continues to show what the world is investigating and learning about coconut oil, while such information is censored in the U.S. corporate “mainstream” media since coconut oil presents a threat to Big Food and Big Pharma’s financial interests. Recent…
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  Did you know that an ancient Ethiopian gluten-free grain alternative offers more healthy, nondairy calcium than any other grain food? Actually, the impressive super food called teff isn’t a grain at all. Like quinoa, teff is technically a seed — one that’s been long relied on in Ethiopia for protection…
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Chocolate is considered a delicious and nutritious snack, given that it is made from raw cacao, where most of its health benefits come from. Raw cacao, unlike processed cocoa powder and regular chocolate bars, is not exposed to high temperatures, which remove many of its unique health benefits. Here are more reasons why raw…
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  A recent human clinical study demonstrated sesame seeds were as good, or better than normal treatments using NSAID only (non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs) such as Tylenol or Ibuprofen in treating osteoarthritis. The humans involved in the study all suffered from osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. This…
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