Category: Food as Medicine

Beetroot Found to Be Natural Sports Performance Enhancer

More commonly found in the Slavic soup borscht, a salad, or the corner shop hamburger, the humble beetroot may soon become a regular part of athletes’ protein shakes after research from the University of South Australia (UniSA) found it can enhance sporting performance. Conducting a meta-analysis of 118 studies from 25 countries, the team evaluated…


Adding This to Your Carbs May Decrease Glycemic Levels by 50 Percent

Did you know that white bread contains 20 grams of starch? After eating it, the body transforms that starch into sugar, causing a rapid increase in your blood sugar levels and providing you with a temporary boost in energy. But a higher blood sugar is not necessarily a good thing, especially in the long-term. Your…


Food Is Colon Cancer’s Formidable Foe

When chemo fails, the immense healing power of bioactive compounds in food may be the only hope left.  Colon cancer is one of the world’s most prevalent and lethal forms of cancer and is believed to be driven primarily by the Western pattern diet. It has been estimated that more than 1 million people around the world…


Milk Thistle for Liver Health

Milk thistle, with its distinctive purple flowers and long, thorny leaves, has long been touted for its liver health benefits and detoxing prowess. Milk thistle and its healing properties were first described by the Greek physician Dioscorides in 40 A.D. Dioscorides was a physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and the author of De Materia Medica, a five-volume…


Food and Mood: How to Eat Well for Your Mental Health

In recent years, the relationship between nutrition and mental well-being has been gaining considerable interest. Whereas in the past, common disorders such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and OCD would be treated with medication, today study shows there is much evidence to suggest that diet can play a major preventive role. Dr Uma Naidoo, M.D., is…


2 Types of Super Brain Foods to Defeat Dementia and Alzheimer’s

In a Ted Talk, Neal Barnard, M.D., president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, spoke about his father, who had passed away from Alzheimer’s disease. His father became ill a few years before he passed. The first symptom was memory loss, and as time went by, his memory became increasingly worse. In the end,…


Cooking for Healing: The Pungent Potency of Ginger

Herbs and spices were used by ancient cultures to heal the body, mind, and spirit. While the Western world has largely replaced these natural remedies with pharmaceuticals, roughly 80 percent of people worldwide still use traditional or ancient medicine. This isn’t surprising considering that more than 80 percent of pharmaceuticals are derived or developed from…


Coffee May Help You Live Longer—Even With a Little Sugar

New data suggest that the health benefits of coffee persist even when a bit of sugar is added. The research shows that people who drank any amount of unsweetened coffee are 16 percent to 21 percent less likely to die than those who don’t drink it, based on data from 171,000 British participants. Sweetened coffee…


Create Better Blood Circulation With These 3 Nutrients

Over the course of an average lifetime, the human heart beats an astounding 3 billion times, pumping blood through a network of arteries, veins, and capillaries totaling a stunning 60,000 miles.  We may take these phenomenal inner mechanisms for granted, but we do so at our own risk.  The all-important circulatory system ensures that oxygen-rich…


Prebiotics and Probiotics

If you’re not thinking about your gut health, you’re missing an important element of your overall health. Your gut can influence mood, immunity, metabolism, and the functionality of your body’s internal systems. How does it have this kind of power? Think about it this way: You’ve got trillions of cells in your body that most…