Category: Food as Medicine

Do You Know Where to Get All Your Vitamins and Minerals?

Vitamins and minerals might not always get the love they deserve, but the truth is they keep you healthy and functional and protect you from countless diseases. Vitamins are organic substances that come from plants and animals. They’re often called “essential” because there are only a few, such as vitamin D, that the body can…


7 Steps to Cleanse Your Liver for Spring

“Spring Cleaning” that Benefits Every Aspect of Your Health. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Spring is a time of renewal and liver cleansing. In TCM, every season has a color, a flavor, a natural element, and an organ that is dominant during that time. Spring is the green season, when bitter flavors like dandelion…


Brand-New Research Suggests High-Fiber Foods Reduce Dementia Risk

With its disabling loss of cognition, judgment, and memory, dementia is a truly devastating condition.  And it is becoming more widespread.  Alzheimer’s disease – the most common cause of dementia among older adults – is currently affecting over 6.2 million Americans.  Experts predict that the incidence will double by the year 2050. Many scientists believe…


Five Reasons to Eat More Sweet Potatoes

From cognitive protection to immune support here are five compelling reasons to incorporate sweet potatoes into your everyday diet Sweet potatoes are more than just a popular staple food serving as a sweet appetizer, side dish or filling snack on their own. This starchy root vegetable has plenty to offer when it comes to achieving…


AHA News: Rounding Up Healthy Rice Choices

Believe it or not, there are thousands of varieties of rice, with colors ranging from black to purple to red and more. Of course, the type of rice most of us know best is white rice. You may have heard some people say rice isn’t nutritious or it will lead you to gain weight. But…


How Can Industrial Organic Supermarket Eggs Have Such Bright Orange Yolks?

It used to be, whenever you saw a nice yellow egg yolk, you could trust those chickens were the real deal – truly pastured. Not any more. Now days, the Industrial Organic Concentration farms can choose the exact color of yolk they want to make it look like their chickens are out on pasture. Here’s an example…


Is Ginger Beneficial in a Diabetic Diet?

In a case report of the “Successful management of type 2 diabetes with [a] lifestyle intervention,” a 45-year-old fellow took responsibility for health into his own hands, and sought to defeat his disease and get off the drugs by eating foods purported to be anti-diabetic. But how strong is the evidence for, let’s say, ginger?…


Avocados Do a Heart Good, Study Finds

Avocado toast has become the favored breakfast of the healthy and fit, and now new research suggests their choice may protect their hearts. People who ate half an avocado twice a week had a 16% lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a 21% lower risk of heart disease, compared with people who never or rarely ate the…


Flashback Friday: Benefit of Dates for Colon Health

Dates are one of the healthiest sweeteners. That’s what we use in The How Not to Die Cookbook. You can blend them with water to make date syrup or use date sugar, which is a whole food—just dried dates ground into powder—and as such is packed with nutrition, ending up with as much antioxidant power as…


Preserve Your Muscle Mass by Consuming This Vitamin

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is so essential for protecting and enhancing immune function that it is often referred to as “the muscle of the immune system.”  However, new research published in The Journal of Nutrition shows that it may also help people over 50 retain muscle mass. For the graying population of the United States, this…