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Healthy Foods which Promote Optimal Health

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Doctor Cures Her Multiple Sclerosis With Diet, Abandons Wheelchair. Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800 Years. Healthy Superfoods You Need. The following healthy power foods can claim big bragging rights: They can fend off serious diseases like diabetes and cancer and heart problems; fortify your immune system; protect and smooth your skin; and help you lose weight or stay slim.

Healthy Superfoods You Need

If you’re eating most of these healthy foods already, good for you! If not, now’s the time to load up your shopping cart and supercharge your health! 1. Eggs Egg yolks are home to tons of essential but hard-to-get nutrients, including choline, which is linked to lower rates of breast cancer (one yolk supplies 25% of your daily need) and antioxidants that may help prevent macular degeneration and cataracts. People with heart disease should limit egg yolks to two a week, but the rest of us can have one whole egg daily; research shows it won’t raise your risk of heart attack or stroke. 5 Ways To Beat Cancer. FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cancer-Causing Arsenic. After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that’s fatal in high doses.

FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cancer-Causing Arsenic

But the real story is where this arsenic comes from:It’s added to the chicken feed on purpose! Even worse, the FDA says its own research shows that the arsenic added to the chicken feed ends up in the chicken meat where it is consumed by humans. So for the last sixty years, American consumers who eat conventional chicken have been swallowing arsenic, a known cancer-causing chemical. The 12 Most Chemically Ridden Produce Items You Should Buy Organic.

I wanted to start this one off with the positives.

The 12 Most Chemically Ridden Produce Items You Should Buy Organic

I have noticed that in grocery stores these days, more and more organic items are stocked on the shelves and in produce aisles. While organic doesn’t necessarily mean the food is amazing for you and completely clean, it is certainly cleaner than conventional produce. By law, any produce certified as organic cannot be GMO, which is a big plus. Sure you may have to pay more for organic produce, but in research I have been doing (which I intend to report on sometime soon) not only is organic produce better for you than conventional because of the lack of pesticides, but the farming practices and lack of chemicals in organic farming creates a more nutrient dense product. While there has been a lot of mis-information spread lately about this in mainstream media and by certain companies, the science behind their claims is quite flawed. The dirty dozen 1. The clean 15 These 15 produce items are known by the EWG as the “clean 15″.

Feeling Fatigued? Maybe You’re Not Getting Enough Iron. If you have made a decision to try out a vegetarian or vegan diet, or you already are practicing this lifestyle, you may come across this popular topic.

Feeling Fatigued? Maybe You’re Not Getting Enough Iron

Iron in your diet. I recently had a friend tell me that she was going vegetarian but was afraid that she wasn’t going to sufficiently have enough iron in her diet. This inspired me to share with everyone the important role that iron plays in bodily function and what plant-based foods you can find it in. The role of iron in the body: The chief role of iron is to form hemoglobin in the body.

Iron is present in the muscle tissues and helps in supply of oxygen required for contraction of muscles. Soaking and Sprouting Chart for Raw Seeds, Nuts and Grains. Raw seeds, grains and nuts should be soaked before using.

Soaking and Sprouting Chart for Raw Seeds, Nuts and Grains

Raw nuts and seeds have enzyme inhibitors on their surface that protect them while they grow. Soaking releases the inhibitors and significantly boosts the nutrition and digestability of nuts and seeds. Your tummy will feel better after eating them soaked than after eating them unsoaked. Some people like to add a little salt to the water before soaking to help speed up the process. After soaking, be sure to rinse seeds and nuts thoroughly with fresh pure water until it runs clear to remove the enzyme inhibitors that have been released into the water. After soaking, you can dehydrate at 105 degrees until the nuts/seeds are completely dry. The following chart gives a good guideline for soaking and sprouting times of the most common seeds, nuts and grains. The association between dietary pattern - PubMed Mobile. 8 Indian Spices That Prevent Cancer. Not every battle is struck by a wave of violence and not every fight culminates in bloodshed.

8 Indian Spices That Prevent Cancer

When the opposition in question is an adamant disease like cancer, our armoury should be packed with a lifestyle of regular health check-ups and a diet including foods that double as anti-cancer agents. When actress Lisa Ray was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a relatively rare cancer of the bone marrow, all she said was, “I’ll beat cancer”. Carrying this spirit of defeating a disease often labelled ‘incurable’, we try to find out diet methods, especially in the selection of spices that can avert the multiplying of malignant cells in the body that gradually mature into insurmountable cancer cells. Our grandmothers would in no time prepare us a glass of warm milk with saffron sprinkled on top when we went crying to her with bruise on our knee or wound on the elbow. The herbal turmeric paste soothed minor cuts and healed all skin rashes.

Indian spices, Dr. 1. Ingredients: Album sans titre. Photos du journal. Thetimequest.com.