Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12 and I hope you have started giving some thought as to how you can serve your mother on this special day. For those of us whose mother lives to far away to visit, we have to make due with sending a gift and talking to her on the phone. …
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Use Sesame Seeds For A Healthy Diet
Last week I talked about figs as a healing food. This week sesame seeds are on the list of healing foods. A recent study found that people with high cholesterol who ate a few spoonfuls of sesame seeds each day lowered their LDL cholesterol by almost 10 percent. They are filled with minerals such as …
Figs – One of the Worlds Healthiest Foods
If you are like me, you probably don’t eat figs very often. They are just not one of those items that are readily available or talked about very much. I like dried figs okay, but when I do eat them, I try to buy organic figs because commercially grown figs are usually treated with sulfur …
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Watch Out For That Easter Candy!
Easter will be here in a couple of days and hopefully you won’t be temped to eat to much (hopefully not any) of the artificially colored Easter candy that you see everywhere you go. Most of the candy ingredients usually start with sugar and corn syrup, followed by high fructose corn syrup or some other …
Why You Should Eat Asparagus
When I was growing up I hated asparagus. Probably because the only asparagus my mother ever made was from a can. Asparagus from a can is limp and mushy, or at least it was after it was cooked. The rule in our family was that we had to eat some of everything on the table …
Why We Should Eat Broccoli
Broccoli is one of those vegetables that is so easy to purchase and has more benefits than just about anything but that I don’t seem to eat enough of. I believe that if we could only eat one vegetable we should choose broccoli because of all the benefits. Broccoli contains iron, potassium, folic acid, Vitamin …
Getting Healthy with Quinoa
I discovered quinoa (pronounced keen-wa) about two years ago. It has been gaining popularity regularly and is now said to be the super food of 2013. Quinoa is full of protein, fiber, iron and other vitamins. It is easy to cook. Just toast it in a dry pan for a few minutes until it starts …
Chicken Soup for that Cold or Sniffles
On an earlier post, I mentioned taking elderberry extract to help prevent the flu and colds. As I was shopping at the mall the other day, it seemed everyone around had the sniffles or coughs. Elderberry extract is not easily purchased unless you go to Whole Foods or another health food store so I decided …
Home Made Eggnog
During this time of the year, eggnog is a popular drink. When we went out to buy some, we just couldn’t bring ourselves to purchase what was already made. Most of them had artificial flavors, corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup. Some even had yellow food coloring. All of those ingredients are on my …
Fighting the Flu and Colds with Elderberry Extract
I saw on the news the other day that the flu has started early this year and they are saying it is the worst flu we have had in years. Even though we have gotten our flu shots, I know that we can still catch the flu but maybe not have it so badly. I …
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