Healthy Foods

My mother could bake a mean ham. She would cover it with pineapple, cloves, and brown sugar. It never failed to please the most discriminate of houseguests. Growing up, it was what followed the ham dinner that I loathed—boiled cabbage. This pot began with the ham bone. After cooking it down, and picking the scraps [...]

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Health Benefits of Kefir

October 25, 2010

What Is Kefir? Kefir is a fermented milk product that health nuts love. It can be made from any type of milk, including: Cow milk Goat milk Sheep milk Soy or rice milk Like a drinkable yogurt, kefir is slightly tart, very creamy, and contains naturally-occurring bacteria and yeasts that give kefir its superior health [...]

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How to Freeze Fresh Herbs

September 23, 2010

A home garden doesn’t have to contain only fruits and vegetables. It can also be a wonderful place to grow fresh herbs such as oregano. Herbs are good for so many things other than cooking, like detoxing you liver and kidneys. To keep fresh herbs lasting longer, one option is to dry them. However, herbs [...]

Do you ever get bored with your vegetables? Are you looking for a way to spice things up when it comes to green beans? There’s a simple yet elegant way to add a little flavor to your green beans without a lot if hassle. Pour a balsamic reduction sauce over them. Balsamic reduction sauces are [...]

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Stuffed Green Peppers Recipe

September 9, 2010

Peppers are more than just a colorful addition to salad and stir fry. Peppers of all varieties — sweet bell peppers and hot peppers alike — are very nutritious, adding much-needed vitamins and compounds to your diet. Below, you’ll find a detailed explanation of the health benefits peppers offer, along with a stuffed green peppers [...]

The answer to the question, “Is grass fed beef better than conventional beef?” is an absolutely, positively, resounding, billboard-screaming, all capital letters, YES. Why is it better? How much time do you have? If You Support Destroying Rainforests, Buy Conventional Beef In the “olden days”, when beef cattle were raised only on farms and ranches, [...]

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How To Freeze Green Beans

August 25, 2010

If you grow your on green beans in your vegetable garden, you probably have more beans than you know what to do with. You don’t want all of your fresh beans to spoil or go uneaten. A good option is to freeze them. This way, you’ll always have a stock of green beans ready to [...]

We require a diverse amount of nutrients to stay healthy. When we are deficient in certain nutrients, our bodies show signs and symptoms of that deficiency. Having a low iron count is once of those deficiencies that can show symptoms. Having a low iron count can lead to a problem known as iron deficiency anemia. [...]

Harold is maintaining a health site which gives closer focus on alternative medicines and natural ways to treat any kinds of human illnesses. Additionally, he is more comfortable writing about the best vegetables and fruits which are very useful for the human health and body. Being a fitness trainer he focuses more on helping other [...]

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Okra Health Benefits

August 1, 2010

It’s important to get several servings of vegetables in our diet each day. There are so many types of vegetables available that it can be hard to keep track of them all. There are some vegetables that we rarely think about. People usually go for the more common vegetables like green beans, broccoli, carrots, and [...]

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Author Bio: Cathryn Johnson is a content writer for Medical Coding Certification who gives advice on the pursuit of education and living a healthy life. In her free time she enjoys the outdoors, performance arts and a good book. I have recently been taking East Indian cooking lessons from my best friend’s mom. As we cook [...]

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An overlooked area for prostate health is diet and nutrition. Men go about their lives not thinking about how important it is to eat food for good prostate health. Eating a proper diet goes a long way in preventing prostate disease. This article will cover the importance of diet and nutrition for managing prostate health for men [...]

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