End of Summer Salad
This is a quick, easy, and potent medicinal salad that complements almost any meal! In the southern hemisphere, where I live, winter is ending and so is the body’s attraction to warm soups and stews. Winter hibernation ends not only for animals, but for plants alike, as the surroundings explode with color and life. Accordingly, [...]
Read moreYacon ~ Fruit of the Earth
Back in 2004 I first came across what I would later learn to be yacon. The name I originally learned, ¨Apple of the Earth,¨ was one of many terms used for this product. This tuber grows from Costa Rica all the way down to northern Argentina and Chile. Being that many different groups live within [...]
Read moreAmazing Avocado
How many of you have heard of the infamous ¨prairie oysters?” Probably most of us! For those who are unfamiliar with this term, “prairie oysters,” simply put, are bull’s testicles. Allow me to explain what all of this has to do with the title of this article. I imagine that only a very daring or [...]
Read moreCamu Camu to the Rescue
Most of us are very aware of the benefits that vitamins bring to our existence. Plain and simple, they are indispensable to our lives. Out of the wide array of known vitamins, the one that people are often most familiar with is ascorbic acid, better known as vitamin C. The name ascorbic acid is derived [...]
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 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 [...]
Read moreSacha Inchi
Sacha Inchi Now that we are back from the holidays and had our share or tummy aches (weather these where from eating too much, not enough or anything in between) I figure, it would be nice to kick of 2010 with an article on Sacha Inchi. We all have been almost forced to adapt these [...]
Read moreWelcome to Darin’s Naturals blog Launch
Darin’s Naturals has been all over the world finding some of the most exciting new and sustainable super foods! Through the Darin’s Naturals website we will now also be sharing our unique insights and information regarding optimum health, nutrition, super foods, herbs, sustainable practices and more. We are continuing to design formulations with many dynamic [...]
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