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Sumara's
Raw Foods Recipes
Living Multi-Grain Breakfast Cereal
2 bananas
¼ cup sprouted grains
(wheat, rye, oats, spelt sprouted 1 day)
1 tablespoon raw almond butter
¼ cup golden raisins
¼ cup walnuts, presoaked
and chopped
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon vanilla
Mash
the bananas with a fork. Stir in rest of ingredients and dig in. Yummy!
Serves 1-2
**For more recipes go to
our new
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site.
Some Cocoa May Improve
Brain Blood Flow
by Randolph E. Schmid, Yahoo News
A nice cup of the right kind of cocoa could hold
the promise of promoting brain function as people age.
In an increasingly aging world, medical
researchers are seeing more cases of dementia and are looking for ways to make
brains work better.
One potential source of help may be flavanols,
an antioxidant found in cocoa beans that can increase blood flow to the brain,
researchers said Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
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Shocking Documentary
Will Convince You to Stay Away From Vaccines For Good
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
Among other things, you'll wonder why the
American Academy of Pediatrics still fights state legislatures about the use
of
thimerosal (mercury) in vaccines behind the
scenes after publicly asking for its removal
eight years ago, after watching Brownyn
Hancock's disturbing documentary
Vaccination: The Hidden Truth.
Hancock's 90-minute film delves into the truth
behind the real dangers of vaccines, often using the very same peer-reviewed
research emanating from conventional medicine, and just as my friend and
colleague,
Dr. Russell Blaylock, has done on my Web
site.
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here for the rest of the
article.
HairMax Laser Comb
Receives FDA Clearance as Hair Regrowth Device for Humans
News Target.com
The FDA has approved the HairMax Laser Comb as
the first drug-free hair regrowth device for at-home use. The Laser Comb,
which is only the third hair regrowth product to receive FDA approval, is
manufactured by Lexington International, LLC, based in Boca Raton, Fla.
What
you need to know - Conventional View
•
Approximately fifty-five million men in the United States are affected by hair
loss.
• The
HairMax Laser Comb uses lasers to stimulate the hair follicle and encourage
new growth. According to studies conducted by Lexington, the device increased
the number of thick hairs in 93 percent of users aged 30 to 60. The average
increase in hair density was 19 hairs per square centimeter...
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here
for the rest of the story.
Smoke Point for Cooking Oils
by Annie
Berthold-Bond, Care 2
Heating
cooking oils to their smoke point can causes serious indoor air pollution. A
kitchen stove hood/vent is a very good idea to help reduce this form of indoor
air pollution in the home.
Another
really good way to reduce smoke from burning cooking oils is to choose your
oils carefully, so you cook with oils that can handle high heat without
smoking. For example, refined avocado oil can be heated to just under 500 F
before smoking, while unrefined safflower oil will smoke when heated to just
under 225 F.
Below is a
chart adapted from research published by oil manufacturer Spectrum Naturals,
that gives the smoke point of many oils. Try to never heat oils to their smoke
point. Even if you do get a stove hood, using the right oil for the right heat
is important...
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Food
Labels – How to Read Them and What They Mean
Tenerife News
We should all
be able to read these labels and learn from them so that we know how
to avoid the ‘nasties’. However, if we do not understand the jargon
used on these labels, what do we do? Remember that the ingredients
are always listed in descending order by weight.
Salt – look for ‘no added
salt’; a food low in salt has 0.1g or less of sodium per100g.
Sugar – watch out for sugar disguised as cane juice, corn sweetener, corn
syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, invert sugar, lactose, maltose, raw cane
sugar, sucrose syrup. Some manufacturers will formulate a product with sugar,
glucose and corn syrup and list them separately so that they avoid the word
‘sugar’ appearing at the top of the list. Many ‘low-fat’ foods contain high
levels of sugar. Your body converts excess sugar into ‘bad fats’ so there is
no benefit from substituting high levels of sugar for low levels of fat.
Trans-fats – produced when vegetable and fish oils are chemically altered to
turn them into margarine. Avoid products containing hydrogenated or partially
hydrogenated fats, as they block the conversion of essential fats in the body,
raising the cholesterol...
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Antioxidant Vitamins A, C,
E, Don't Help You Live Longer, Analysis of Dozens of Studies Finds
by Karla K. Johnson, Lubbock Online
Antioxidant vitamins taken by tens of millions
of people around the world won't lead to a longer life, according to an
analysis of dozens of studies that adds to evidence questioning the value of
the popular supplements. The large review of separate studies on thousands of
people found no long-life benefit from vitamins A, E and C and beta carotene
and selenium.
However, some experts said it's too early to
toss out all vitamin pills — or the possibility that they may have some health
benefits. Others said the study supports the theory that antioxidants work
best when they are consumed in food rather than pills.
An estimated 80 million to 160 million people
take antioxidants in North America and Europe, about 10 to 20 percent of
adults, the study's authors said. And last year, Americans spent $2.3 billion
on nutritional supplements and vitamins at grocery stores, drug stores and
retail outlets, excluding Wal-Mart, according to Information Resources Inc.,
which tracks sales...
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On Some Menus, One
Plate Packs 2,000 Calories
by Allison Linn, MSNBC News
Everyone likes to splurge a little when they go
to a restaurant, but new research suggests some of those indulgences may be
packing way more calories — and, if you aren’t careful, pounds — than you
think.
The
Center for Science in
the Public Interest, a research group that advocates good
nutrition, highlighted menu items from popular chain restaurants that in some
cases have as many calories in just one plateful as some people should eat in
an entire day.
The research comes as Americans are eating out
more and more, and experts are growing increasingly concerned about
obesity-related health concerns. The Center for Science in the Public Interest
is hoping that publicizing such nutritional information will prompt more
companies to offer calorie counts and other nutrition data, so customers can
better evaluate what they plan to eat...
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