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Health Benefits of Cayenne Pepper. By Glenn Reschke What are the health benefits of cayenne pepper (Capsicum)?

Health Benefits of Cayenne Pepper

The purported therapeutic benefits are almost too unbelieveable, but its reputation keeps growing among medical researchers as well as alternative health afficionados and deservedly so. It can do everything from kill cancer cells in the prostate, lungs, and pancreas to immediately stop a heart attack within 30 seconds. Let's get into some of the specifics of Capsicum benefits. Capsicum increases metabolism by immediately influencing the venous structure. It is nothing short of amazing with its effects on the circulatory system as it feeds the vital elements into the cell structure of capillaries, veins, arteries and helps adjust blood pressure to normal levels.

Yes, Capsicum for high blood pressure is certainly one of its core uses, but Capsicum cleans the arteries as well, helping to rid the body of the bad LDL cholesterol and triglycerides. Seed Companies Safe from Monsanto Ties. Maybe we can post here what we like about the above mentioned companies.

Seed Companies Safe from Monsanto Ties

My favorites are Heirloom Seeds, Seed Savers, groworganic.com (because they are local), and Baker Creek (aka rareseeds.com). Heirloom Seeds has really good organic butternut squash seeds. Very hardy. Good all around company that I've never had problems with. Baker Creek has lots of variety and always something new each year and fun. Seed Savers is always got lots to choose from as well. Nettle beer. School Gardens Promote Learning While Fighting Hunger. GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 11, 2011 (Tierramérica) - "Yesterday I planted 20 broccoli plants at home. Britain Completes First Green Zone. Amidst the flurry of bad news being broadcast out of the UK, as London riots rage across the city, there has been some good news on the alternative energy front as well.

Britain Completes First Green Zone

Westmill Solar Farm, the UK’s largest solar farm, was connected to the national grid a couple of weeks ago. Power from adjoining solar and wind farms in Oxfordshire now provide energy to 4,000 homes for the next 25 years, at least. The solar farm covers the equivalent of eight soccer pitches. It features 23,000 solar panels and went online just a few days before government changes to feed-in tariffs. The Real Story about the Famine in the Horn of Africa: The Humanitarian Aid Business. Hazardous Fruits and Vegetables: Do You Know the Dirty Dozen? Redwood Curtain CopWatch. Their job is to Collect or Create Information to arrest you and help prosecute you.

Redwood Curtain CopWatch

They are not trying to win justice or help you. “I choose to remain silent. Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman. Library of Congress number 72-157115 (stolen from Library of Congress) copyright ©1971 PIRATE EDITIONS [ NOTE: Much of the information in this text is out of date being over 30 years old now, especially phone numbers and addresses.]

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

No Free Pass for New Genetically Engineered Crops! In April, we asked organic activists to take action to stop an outrageous US Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposal for the biotech industry to police itself.

No Free Pass for New Genetically Engineered Crops!

Despite the opposition of 10,000 Organic Consumers Association members, the USDA is going forward with the controversial deregulation, which allows companies like Monsanto to decide whether their genetically engineered crops pose environmental risks. And if this wasn't bad enough, this month, things got much, much worse. London's Unpackaged Grocery Shop: No Packaging Whatsoever - Food. I can't fathom a better way to reduce waste created by plastic bags and other packaging than by eschewing the stuff altogether, which is precisely what London's Unpackaged grocery shop does.

London's Unpackaged Grocery Shop: No Packaging Whatsoever - Food

WeHeart has more: Beginning life as a market stall in 2006, Unpackaged is a unique and brilliant concept that is so simple it hurts, especially considering the sheer amount of packaging waste that is ridiculously filling our planet's landfill sites. A Shade Greener - Free Solar Panels From The UK Market Leader. Urban Beekeeping: NYC. Free solar panels: the small print exposed. The world can be powered by alternative energy in 20 to 40 years. Environmental Impacts of Cultured Meat Production - Environmental Science & Technology.

University of Oxford, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Road, Tubney, Oxon OX13 5QL, U.K.

Environmental Impacts of Cultured Meat Production - Environmental Science & Technology

University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Molecular Microbial Physiology Group, NL-1018 WV Amsterdam, Netherlands. Eat Less Meat And Cheese, Environmental Group Recommends. Gidon Eschel, a professor of climate physics at Bard College in New York, spent much of his youth in Israel with cows — tending to a dairy farm as a boy and his own beef cattle farm years later.

Eat Less Meat And Cheese, Environmental Group Recommends

Largest ever marijuana plantation hidden under black netting in Mexican desert. Discovery comes as Mexico drug violence takes upswingMore than 40,000 people have died in drug violence in Mexico since late 2006. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 17:49 GMT, 15 July 2011 Mexican soldiers discovered the largest marijuana plantation in the country's history, hidden under black cloth in the middle of the desert.

How Federal Food Subsidies Turn the Food Pyramid Upside Down - yearofplenty. Eating Hemp Is Good For You. Stacking box wormery - Powered by Google Docs. How to turn plastic waste into diesel fuel cheaply - Page 8. Feedstock Recycling and Pyrolysis of Waste Plastics.