Archive for Nutrition
What’s Lurking in Your Legumes?
Who doesn´t love a good warm bowl of pulse-grain, perhaps flavored with some good spices and veggies on a cold day? Maybe it does not even have to be a cold day. It is common for some people to eat a grain or pulse dish two or three times a day, maybe more if you [...]
Read moreKimchi
Kimchi defines Korean cuisine possibly more than any other dish. It is unique in its taste and effect, both as an experience and biochemically. Historically and traditionally, nothing in the Korean peninsula is enjoyed as widely as Kimchi. It is so embedded in Korean identity that after generations of diaspora, even those who might have [...]
Read moreBack to basics
Back to basics We live in a time when trying to be healthy has become a very complex objective. We are constantly being bombarded by what has become a very lucrative market which is the ¨health food¨ or ¨alternative healing¨ markets, quite often people end up more confused and puzzled, with more questions than answers. [...]
Read moreAs the humble grass
As the humble grass “But now I will speak to you of mysterious things, for I tell you truly, the humble grass is more than food for man and beast. it hides its glory beneath a lowly aspect, as it was told of a ruler of old that he visited the villages of his subjects [...]
Read moreThe B word
The B word! There exists a man who just seems to be completely infatuated, even enamored with poop! Yes, this is the same poop that could be described as the most taboo byproduct in all of human biology. Well friends, although this may disgust or repulse you, I learned of this man from a friend [...]
Read moreThe Amazing Gac Fruit
A great new superfruit that most likely will be hitting the markets soon is called Gac Fruit. I am pretty comfortable saying that about this rare, exotic fruit since I am working on supplement formulas with it. This grenade of a fruit is packed full of beta-carotene’s, lycopenes, vitamins and the powerful zeaxanthins! What that [...]
Read moreCamu Camu to the rescue
Probably by now we are all very aware of the benefits that all vitamins bring to our existence, beyond the fact that they are essential and this in it self encompasses to clarify and bring to an end all the potential fuss nutritionist, doctors or any other expert can make on the matter. Plane and [...]
Read moreCacao (pure Chocolate) helps Cardiovascular Disease and Blood Pressure
“Consuming foods and beverages rich in flavanols may decrease the risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Cocoa (Theobroma cacao) and cocoa-containing products, which are rich in flavanols, are presumed to help prevent cardiovascular disease by lowering blood pressure.” Full Article: http://cms.herbalgram.org/herbclip/416/101032-416.html
Read moreSalutogenesis
SALUTOGENESIS It is not difficult to realize there is a serious health problem with the state of health in many parts of the globe. It takes little more than a brief chat with the customer standing next to us at the farmer’s market to hear their list of ailments. With that in mind, there are [...]
Read moreThe energy that feeds us
Writing a past post, entitled ¨superfoods¨ in those moments of complete surrender to your highest inspiration, I came to express my concern for the loose utilization of the same term. Finalizing in proposing the reader to think of the fact that ALL plants are the sum effect of condensed light, gas and water in the [...]
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