Here’s a cool article from the Wall Street Journal about how the beneficial bacteria (flora) in our bodies help influence our minds. “The Yogurt Made Me Do It: There’s nothing metaphorical about ‘gut feelings’ — Bacteria influence our minds.”
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If you suffer from heartburn, here are some easy suggestions for effective food therapies. 1. Avoid tomatoes, dark chocolate, raw onions, fried food, mint teas, and red wine. Curious about Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of India? Discover which of the three energies (doshas) predominates in your constitution with this diagnostic test, then get balanced and maintain best health through food therapy, massage and yoga (not to mention acupuncture). Many of the questions are things you’ve probably never asked yourself! TEA RECIPE: Good Chai: 2 [...] Not all vitamins are created equal. Just as whole foods are healthier than processed, natural vitamins are more beneficial than synthetic because their nutritional components are better absorbed, utilized and retained by the body. This “bio-availability” makes natural vitamins a better deal despite being more expensive. Natural vitamins are derived from food sources and contain a [...] While the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently made strides in overhauling its Food Pyramid, government nutritional advice is still greatly watered down due to the effects of food industry lobbying, advertising, and co-opting of experts (see Marion Nestle’s Food Politics). In fact, the USDA still fails to acknowledge that some foods simply aren’t healthy (e.g. [...] The New York Times recently reported that a handful of scientific studies show chicken soup to be medicinal. In one, a doctor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center found that chicken soup helped reduce the mobilization of a certain type of white blood cell, thereby reducing upper respiratory tract inflammation that expresses as cold [...] |
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