The internet is replete with almost all kinds of free information at our fingertips. I wanted to post about the health and nutrition benefits of radish but I didn’t know very much, to be honest, apart from a thing or two. So I asked i-know-it-all Google to find the information for me and with a [...]
Read more »A Rainbow A Day
I first heard about the campaign “5 a Day” in 2007 when I was still in Thailand. 5 a Day is the practice of eating at least 5 portions of fruits and vegetables in a day. Apparently, its main objective was to reduce cancer rates in America and in Europe. But lately there have been [...]
Read more »2 Glasses of Warm Water as Detox and Laxative
Have you ever got the chain email about the benefits of 2 glasses of warm water? It claims that it can cure a whole lot of diseases. I have yet to find proofs to those claims but I think I have got a thing or two of its effectiveness. You see I have an on [...]
Read more »Benefits of Eating Raw Food
1. You get the most nutrients There were a couple of occasions when I realized that cooking was like an unnecessary extravagance. I said that because it could take a day to prepare a meal that is down in just a few minutes. And to top if off, cooking destroys the most important elements of [...]
Read more »Wholegrains: Why they are good for you
Spelt grain in all it’s glory For wholegrain recipes, checkout these books Wholegrains are packed with healthy and nutritional benefits. Provided you eat grains in their whole, you get a excellent amount of vitamins and minerals that will surely provide you with [...]
Read more »Food Combination: Why Fruits and Vegetables Should Not Be Eaten Together
Quoting from one of my favorite consultants on Diets and Food, EGWhite “There should not be a great variety at one meal, for this encourages overeating and causes indigestion. It is not well to eat fruits and vegetables at the same meal. If the digestion is feeble the use of both will [...]
Read more »Herbs & Spices Give Life to Your Cooking
Spices bring out the best in your cooking. Garlic powder, Onion granules, ground pepper, cinnamon ground, ginger, dried sage, mixed spice or all spice are the most-commonly used herbs and spices in recipes and these are just a few of them that you have to stock up on–having these around comes in handy when I [...]
Read more »Why I Eat Fruits Before Meal, Not After
A variety of fruits eaten fresh and before meal will provide optimum health benefits. Like many others, I used to eat my fruit last. Most of the time it was my dessert kind-of-thing especially when there was no prepared sweets. This was the idea and practice I grew up with. When I read Ellen G. [...]
Read more »Oranges for breakfast, anyone?
Blood oranges come from Sicily in Italy. They grow near Mt. Etna, the most active volcano in the world. I love oranges especially the ponkan ones but since I’ve got an issue with hyper-acidity, I can’t have them and not suffer from heartburn and such. Everytime I eat it I get to relish the pleasure [...]
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