Children Need Vitamin D

  by Nature’s Sunshine Products Vitamin D has long been known to support bone health. But new studies reveal that this vitamin plays many important roles beyond bone health. Recent scientific evidence suggests that vitamin D plays a vital role in maintaining innate immunity, protecting cardiovascular health, and protecting cells, among numerous other health benefits. [...]

What’s Your Gut Feeling? The Scoop on Digestion

  by Becki Baumgartner Symptoms and Factors that Contribute to Poor Digestion  In today’s fast paced world automatic processes like digestion are often overlooked, if not forgotten.  But think about it…if a body could not digest, how would it survive?  Now think a little more.  If digestion is limited, does it not make sense that [...]

Spices Play Role in Reduced Cancer Risk

by Dr. Mercola Adding certain spices to your meat before tossing it on the grill can also cut the risk of cancer long associated with beef cooked at high temperatures. Three spices in particular — fingerroot, rosemary and turmeric — are the most effective in preventing the formation of heterocyclic amines (HCAs). HCAs are cancer-causing [...]

Study Demonstrates Heart Health Benefits of Pistachios

by Lee Swanson A diet that includes pistachios could help improve heart health, according to a new study, which suggests that regular servings of the nuts reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Researchers found that a pistachio-enriched diet resulted in serum antioxidants and decreases in oxidized low-density lipoproteins (LDL), the so-called “bad” cholesterol, when [...]

Wild Backyard Stir-Fry

by Becki Baumgartner Who says tasty organic food has to be expensive… or bought from the store?!?   With a few standard staples, a little imagination, and use of what Mother Nature has sprouting in your own back yard, you can have wholesome, healthy meals quickly, easily and inexpensively! Here is a recipe that we just [...]

Why Drinking Enough Water Can Help Keep Acne Away

Shared by Jyll Renee, Master Herbologist You probably don’t know this yet but product wastes and toxic build up in your system is one of the main reasons why you have acne or why your skin breaks out. You see, your body has 4 channels of elimination…your bowels, kidneys, lungs, and your skin. Your bowels [...]

Minding Your Blood Pressure Could Prevent Alzheimer’s

by Dr. Mercola Controlling blood pressure just might be the best protection yet known against dementia. In a flurry of new research, scientists scanned people’s brains to show hypertension fuels a kind of scarring linked to later development of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Those scars can start building up in middle age, decades before [...]

Tips for Flexible Joints

by Marharishi Ayurveda Do you find that your joints start aching in the cool, wet spring weather? According to Maharishi Ayurveda, spring is the time when toxins that have built up over the winter flood the system and can collect in the joints. Digestion also tends to slow down in spring, which can lead to [...]

The Green Abundance: Choosing Your Perfect Green Food Blend

by Daniela Sales Green super-foods are very rich and abundant sources of nutrients that include algae, green plants, vegetables and grasses. These amazing foods contain not only a wide range of minerals and vitamins vital to our well-being, but also contain chlorophyll and variety of phytochemicals that offer our body protection from many unwanted conditions.  [...]

The Benefits of Honey and Organic Vedic Honey

According to the ancient texts of Vedic Medicine, Ayurveda, honey is easily digestible and supports improved digestion.   It is good for the eyes (vision), good for the voice, and gives suppleness to the physiology.   Honey helps the complexion as it enters into the minute pores it purifies and clears the channels (Shrotas) of [...]

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