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Sumara's
Raw Food Recipes |
Scrumptious
Apple Pie Shake
1 cup raw milk
1 large apple
2-3 medjool dates
2 tablespoons liquid
Acidolphilus and Bulgaricus
2 tablespoons flax
seed, ground
1 tablespoon raw
honey
1 handful almonds
1 handful walnuts
1
teaspoon alcohol-free vanilla
1 teabag organic Mulling
Spices, emptied (R.W. Knudsen) or
½
teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon
powdered stevia
Place everything in a blender and blend until
creamy.
Serves 1-2
**For
more recipes go to
our new
Raw Foods Recipes
site.
The Top Five
Nutrients For Healthy Skin
Skin Treatment Guide
The skin is
one of the most powerful indicators of health. Wrinkles, dry or oily skin,
acne, and inflammation all are signs of poor internal health, often brought on
by consuming unhealthful foods and avoiding skin-healthy nutrients.
To treat skin problems, most people turn to mainstream topical cosmetics,
including lotions, soaps, scrubs, toners, and creams. However, treating outer
blemishes with expensive, chemical-laden beauty products does little to
address the root cause of the problem: poor nutrition and exposure to toxins
in dietary and personal care products.
"Your skin is the fingerprint of what is going on inside your body, and all
skin conditions, from psoriasis to acne to aging, are the manifestations of
your body's internal needs, including its nutritional needs," says Dr.
Georgiana Donadio, founder of the National Institute of Whole Health.
Recent research has shown that the skin reacts particularly well to certain
vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that nourish the skin, making it appear
youthful and healthy. The following nutrients are among the very best to
consume for healthy, young-looking skin:..
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Anti Cellulite Diet
Cellulite Treatment Info
Most women who are in their 30’ws face the problem of cellulite. The causes of
cellulite are many such as the lack of exercises, alcohol and drugs, stress or
aging, but no one knows the exact cause for cellulite. There are many anti
cellulite treatment methods are available, but most of them doesn’t show any
results.
Diet is one of the methods believed to be effective against cellulite. There
is no actual, or particular diet which will reduce or get rid of cellulite,
the best you can hope for is to eat healthily and make sure that you drink
plenty of fluids.
Working Of Anti Cellulite Diet
Here is how a common anti cellulite diet usually works for those inexperienced
and gullible enough to pay large amounts of money.
* Firstly, you will be advised to avoid toxins and foods that kill. We are all
aware of this, and you don’t have to be a specialist or a genius to figure out
you shouldn't be eating these types of food. The water cure is often
propagated as a cure for cellulite, but again its effects are only minimal...
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story.
The Basics on the Foodfight
Over Irradiation
Should
you look for the "radura" symbol?
by Adam Voiland, US News & Report
The Food and Drug Administration's approval late
last month of pathogen-zapping irradiation technology for fresh spinach and
iceberg lettuce has reignited a long simmering debate about how to improve the
safety of food. The news comes as the latest food safety scare—the salmonella
outbreak probably caused by hot peppers—winds down after infecting 1,442
people across 43 states and killing two of them. The Centers for Disease
Control estimates that foodborne diseases cause approximately 76 million
illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths each year in the United
States.
Given the less than spotless state of the nation's food supply, is bombarding
a product with radiation to kill microorganisms such as E. coli and salmonella
a good thing? Or should you avoid irradiated food, as some groups urge? U.S.
News asked food safety experts some key questions to help you decide.
What is irradiation?
The process involves treating a food with a short burst of high energy
radiation that damages the DNA of bacteria. Though the FDA has only just
approved the technique for use with fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce, the
technology is not new. In fact, the agency has conducted safety tests on the
technology for more than 40 years, and its use on meat has been approved since
1997. Spinach and iceberg lettuce are the first types of produce approved for
irradiation at levels intense enough to kill pathogens. (Lower doses have been
approved for other purposes, such as controlling insect infestations and
slowing ripening produce's maturation...)
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article.
Removing Scars The
Natural Way
by Martha Fitzharris, Skin
Treatment Guide
Quick and easy information access has been a
consequence of the fast development of technology. Thus, more and more people
over the world are gaining with all the aspects of the Medias, from news to
fashion.
It’s a general tendency for people to be vainer with themselves caused by the
effects of lots of advertisements that depict the essence of being beautiful
as an important element that leads you to successfulness. No wonder why a lot
of people are so much into cosmetic surgeries these days. All of them want to
improve or enhance their appearance for being physically acceptable in
society.
Consequently, one of the most undesirable problems in a person’s appearance is
face scars. Whether it is caused by acne or other incidents that resulted in
wounds, scar is an unsightly spot in the skin.
Scar develops if there’s an abnormal function of the skin cells and it may
rise shiny and thin, hard and rough, white or dark textured, depending each
case. Sometimes it can be reminded where the wound was “stitched-up”, others
the scar can be so tough and fibrous that it interferes with the body’s
capability to move a joint.
Experts say that it is easier to take measures to minimize a scar early than
to having to correct one later. That is why it is very important to remove the
scar as early as possible...
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article.
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