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Naturally sweet cinnamon revives our senses with its wonderful aroma and can enhance health with its medicinal properties. Cinnamon was first used in China (2700 B.C.) to treat fever, digestive, and menstrual problems. Indian healers used cinnamon to treat gastrointestinal complaints, as well as [...]
There are so many reasons – and so many ways – to love avocado. A culinary superfood, awesome avocados provide up to 20 nutrients including vitamins K, C and E, as well as folate, magnesium, zinc, and potassium. In fact, they actually have more potassium than bananas. I wrote [...]
Healthy Heart Foods When I worked at the great Chicago restaurant Topolobampo, one of the other volunteers in the kitchen loaded up on Peptobismol and Lipitor (a statin now off patent) before our annual trip to a great culinary region in Mexico. “One for the gut and one for [...]
The Lancet study finding that ARBs (Angiotensin Receptor Blockers), commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, heart failure and kidney disease actually result in more cancer, especially lung cancer, is alarming. But so would be the sound of people stopping their meds this moment because of [...]
A Reporter Eats His Way To Lower Cholesterol Growing Number of Doctors Emphasize Diet, Not Drugs By THOMAS M. BURTON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL When it comes to lowering cholesterol, "diet and exercise" is often a throwaway line from doctors. As in: "If you don't get your [...]