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Recommended Daily Allowances
The US, EU and World Health Organisation have created a list of Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA’s) for individual vitamins and minerals. Most people are aware of the RDA’s from reading the side of cereal boxes during their breakfast! Perhaps we should be eating much more than what governments recommend to promote optimum health?
Eat Whole-foods not Refined Foods!
Eat Whole-foods not Refined Foods!
Most people know that foods contain Vitamins and Minerals. But does the food we eat, after growing, refining, cooking and packaging still actually contain these compounds? Growing and processing food in the ‘modern’ way removes a lot of these essential constituents of food. Did you know that:
Beneficial bacteria in the gut
Probiotics. Probiotics. Probiotics. They are advertised on the TV, at bus stop shelters, in magazines… but does anybody know anything about them? Probiotics are the beneficial bacteria that inhabit our gut. They compete with bad bacteria in the gut for attachment sites, and when the ratio between these two types of bacteria goes out of balance, illness (over many parts of the body), can take hold.
Garlic
Garlic
This valuable food was revered in the distant past. The Egyptians considered garlic and onions sacred, of possessing magical powers to ward off evil spirits and the effects of their bad deeds. The Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, Babylonians and Jews all used garlic as a food and as a medicine. But why don’t we use it more?? Considering it’s trillions of different medicinal benefits and the epidemic of chronic diseases in our society, it makes great sense to make sure one eats a clove of garlic a day!
Eggs
Eggs
Eggs are primarily designed for making new birds rather than for our culinary pleasure. To make a new bird, the egg must contain all the minerals, vitamins, proteins and fats necessary to create a fully formed hatchable living chick.
Dig your way out of a Depression
Dig your way out of a Depression
Clarifying the Gluten Confusion!
Clarifying the Gluten Confusion!
Gluten has become a well-known word due to many people’s inability to digest it properly. There seems to be lots of confusion over what it is and what foods it’s found in.
Lettuce on the Windowsil
Lettuce on the windowsil
There’s nothing more rewarding than growing your own food. And there’s very little that’s more nutritional to buy than to grow yourself. Nutrients in food are at their highest when the food was growing one minute and on your plate the next!