Food For Thought Could it be true, cutting fatty foods out of your diet may help you sleep better? Research conducted by a team from the University Of Pennsylvania school Of Medicine stated that, woman who ate foods higher in fat content slept in shorter bursts of sleep. Often starches and sugars are […]
How chocolate is used for healing in the past and present
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 […]
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, […]
Skin Care and Healing Hands.
During last summer’s travels, one thing that we both noticed was the condition of our skin. Everyone, as they age, has a tendency to lose elasticity in their skin. Translated, that means more wrinkles. Many things contribute to wrinkles and dry skin and since each of us is different, there is no set formula for […]
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