History of Chocolate Timeline The beginning of chocolate is the cacao tree, known by ethnobotanists as "theobroma cacao." According to the article, "Introduction: Chocolate’s History at a Glance," chocolate in its raw state grows in a pod like a pea, but on trees 40-60 feet tall. Cacao is native to the tropics of America. Ancient Mayans […]
Garbanzo Bean Cookie Monsters – How to make healthier cookies from bran, meal, and chick peas
Did you know that tasty monster cookies or brownies can be made from nourishing garbanzo beans that have been turned into flour or pureed into a paste, fruit-sweetened, and mixed with other healthy brans such as oat bran, rice bran and meals–such as flax or almond meal? Then you can bake the cookie or dehydrate a mixture […]
You can be thin, vegetarian, a marathon runner, and still get exercise-induced hypertension and calc
You can be thin, vegetarian, and a marathon runner and still have your arteries calcified, according to a March 14, 2007 press release from the University of Maryland Medical Center, "University of Maryland Researchers Find Heart Disease in a Marathon Runner: Is Too Much Excercise a Bad Thing?" The press release doesn’t say whether the […]
Teaching children and families to make healthier recipe ingredient substitutions when baking
Here’s how to bake cookies with pureed pumpkin and/or sesame seed tahini as a substitute for milk or other liquids in any type of cookie, cake, or brownie baking. As an alternative to milk products, use sesame seed tahini, a puree of sesame seeds ground either in your blender with some water, or buy it […]
What foods, minerals, vitamins, and fatty acids help your eyes?
According to the June 2009 article,"‘Eye Food – fact sheet–Transitions Healthy Sight Survey," foods that fight cataracts and macular degeneration contain both phytonutrients and sulfur. Eggs contain cysteine, sulfur, lecithin, carotenoids and zeaxanthin. These nutrients help to protect the lens of the eye from cataract formation. When you add vitamin C to the cysteine, sulfur, […]
Red meat raises risk of breast cancer in adolescence, but is not a risk in post-menopausal women, st
Recent research suggests that eating 19 specific vegetables, fruits, and fish could significantly lower your risk of breast cancer, according to the article, "Nineteen Foods to Prevent Breast Cancer," by Dr. John H. Mahler, ABAAHP, published on the NaturalHealthWeb.com site. Also note that cold water fish such as wild salmon and sardines are included in the diet. Butter […]
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