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How to add superfoods to your diet

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You know all about the best superfoods, you just have trouble adding them to your meals.
Here’s some tips to help you start adding these powerful superfoods to your diet.
Flaxseed
Why it’s healthy:  This tiny nutty-flavored seeds from the flax plant are a notable source of omega-3 fatty acids and lignans, which may block hormone related cancers. [...]

The Acai berry - one of the best superfoods

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We all know we need to take care of our health.  We try to eat healthy and eat more fruits and veggies.  We do our best to put on sunscreen to protect us from sun damage.  We try to cut back on drinking sodas to keep the pounds off.
Fortunately, there is a superfood out there [...]

Foods that help you detox your body

The importance of detoxing your body
One of the most important things anyone can do to improve overall health and fitness is detoxing the body.  This detoxiing should ideally take place a couple of times a year, and many people prefer to do it at the spring and fall of every year.
No matter when you do [...]

Goji juice is a powerful super food for your health

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Today, I wanted to share some info about goji berries and goji juice.
Goji Juice has been touted as one of the most popular nutritional supplements in the world. Manufactured from the mythical goji berry, it is widely heralded as the most nutritionally dense food on the planet.
Goji juice is packed with antioxidants, amino acids, polysaccharides, [...]

Acid Alkaline Foods

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Today I wanted to share some information with you about acid alkaline foods.  Do you remember back in high school chemistry when you learned about acids and bases?  Well alkaline is another name for bases.
Healthy people are slightly alkaline. Sick and unhealthy people are linked to acidic body environments. Healthy cells naturally have a slightly [...]

Best foods to eat and foods to avoid

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Today, I wanted to share some foods to eat and some foods to avoid.
One of the biggest foods to avoid is sugar for many reasons.   Sugars are known to cause weight gain. You should avoid these products, and using alternatives like sugar substitutes and water can be useful. Sugar is known to be one of [...]

Health benefits of ginger root

Discover the major health benefits of Ginger root
Ginger has long been known for its healing properties as well as its good taste, and practitioners of Chinese, Japanese and Indian medicine have long known of its value.
One of the most significant benefits of ginger seems to be its ability to reduce nausea, and ginger is being [...]

Spices are super foods too

Spice is nice - great herbs with great benefits
Herbs can do much more than add much needed spice to the foods you cook.  Herbs also have important health benefits, and many herbs have been shown to have remarkable healing properties.
Growing your own herbs
Fortunately, herbs are very easy to grow in your own home herb garden.  [...]

The top ten cancer preventing foods

More and more people today are realizing the importance of a healthy diet in the prevention and treatment of many common health conditions, and the role of diet in the prevention of cancer is becoming increasingly clear.  Where once scientists in the west were reluctant to attribute diet to a cancer free lifestyle, today many [...]

Best foods to eat: red cabbage and red beets

The many benefits of red cabbage and red beets

There are many reasons why red cabbage and red beets are such popular foods. Both red cabbage and red beets are delicious, nutritious and low in calories. In addition, the compounds found in red cabbage and red beets are thought to play an important role [...]

Best foods to eat: Wolfberry

Enjoy the many health benefits of the wolfberry
The health benefits of the wolfberry have long been known to the world of traditional medicine, these health benefits were explored throughout China many thousands of years ago.  As far back as the Tang Dynasty, in the years from 1000 to 1400 A.D., there are references the wolfberry [...]