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Banana Cacao Mucuna Pre-Workout Smoothie Recipe
This energizing smoothie is made with banana and cacao powder for a rich tasting chocolate banana flavor.
With the addition of cinnamon, mucuna, whey protein and coconut oil, it provides an energy boost before weight training or other activities where you need a lot of fuel for your body.
Why the Ingredients in This Smoothie are Great Before a Workout
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Pumpkin Seeds for Acne and Better Skin Nutrition
Raw pumpkin seeds are a particularly beneficial food to include in your diet for acne reduction and better looking skin.
As well as improving your appearance, here’s how eating pumpkin seeds regularly can also help treat arthritis symptoms, prevent kidney stones, reduce LDL cholesterol levels and much more.
Pumpkin Seeds for Treating Acne and for Better Skin
Pumpkin seeds are an excellent food for improving your skin tone and for treating acne problems. Continue Reading…
Where to Buy Avocado Oil: Organic, Bulk, USA Grown & Best Value
Avocado oil a healthy and heat stable cooking oil with a very high smoke point of 480 degrees Fahrenheit.
It is superior to olive oil, both for high temperature cooking and nutritionally.
Rich in monounsaturated fats, phytosterols such as beta-sitosterol and antioxidants like vitamin E, lutein and alpha and beta-carotene.
Here’s where to find the best value, USA grown, bulk and organic avocado oils online in 2023.
Best Organic Avocado Oil
Avocado Oil for Frying and the Smoke Point of Oils
Avocado oil is a very heat stable cooking oil and one of the best for high-temperature frying in your kitchen.
It also tastes great and is full of beneficial monounsaturated fats and other nutrition.
Here’s why it’s worth changing from unhealthy processed oils, like soy, corn and canola oil, and even the healthier ones like olive oil, to frying with avocado oil.
The Smoke Point of Oils and How It Affects Your Health
Avocado Oil Vs Olive Oil for Healthy Cooking
Is avocado oil better than olive oil in your kitchen and should you even be frying with extra virgin olive oil or can this be harmful?
This article looks at the key differences between olive oil and avocado oil and just what makes the later superior for healthy cooking.
What is Avocado Oil?
Like olive oil, avocado oil is one of the few cooking oils extracted directly from the fruit, rather than chemically extracted from seeds.
Avocado contains around 30% oil and it is cold pressed out of the fruit pulp in a similar way to the method used to produce extra virgin olive oil.
Avocado oil is a very healthy cooking oil, with a beneficial fatty acid profile, good levels of antioxidants and many other nutritional compounds. It also has a high smoke point that makes it great for frying with. Continue Reading…
Best Californian Avocado Oil Brand for Your Kitchen
Avocado oil is growing in popularity as more and more people recognize its value as a superior cooking oil.
Cold pressed avocado oil also has many beneficial properties for improving your appearance, losing weight, disease prevention and long-term optimal health.
I’ve written before about why avocado oil’s high smoke point makes it the best oil for high temperature frying.
There’s also numerous reasons why the vegetable oils in most people’s kitchens are unhealthy and why a good avocado oil is the ideal replacement.
3 Avocado Oil Hair Treatments For Stronger and Shinier Hair
Here are 3 simple and effective avocado oil treatments for your hair. They can quickly improve its softness, shine and even strength and thickness over time.
There is no need to buy expensive commercial conditioning treatments when these are so easy to make at home, all from ingredients straight out of the kitchen.
Let’s have a look at 3 easy and natural ways to improve your hair tonight with avocado oil.
1. Avocado Hot Oil Treatment
How to Use Avocado Oil for Acne Problems
Using avocado oil, both as a skin moisturizer and having it in your diet on a regular basis, can make a very positive difference to the appearance of your skin.
It can also help with acne problems and other skin issues like enlarged pores and blackheads.
Avocado oil can be beneficial to acne sufferers in 3 different ways.
First nutritionally, secondly as a nightly moisturizer, and thirdly as a topical treatment to prevent acne and diminish blackheads and enlarged pores.
Acne Prevention with Monounsaturated Fats
How to Apply Avocado Oil for Face Moisturization
Looking around your local cosmetics store you’ll find a wide variety of different face moisturizers. All of them promising hydrated, younger looking skin (often at a significant price).
Look a little closer at the ingredients list though and the petrochemical derived additives, like propylene glycol, cyclomethicone, petrolatum and methylparaben, may not sound so appealing.
Many of these chemicals are actually known skin irritants, but manufacturers still include them in their formulations to improve shelf life or maintain consistency.
A Natural Alternative That’s Better for Your Skin
How to Ripen Avocados Fast — The Bag & Fruit Method
Avocados should be ripened at home so you can use them just as they become soft.
It can be risky to buy ones that you think are already ready at the store for two reasons.
Firstly, you don’t know how long it has been soft for. From my experience, there’s a fair chance it will be overripe and starting to go off in the middle.
Secondly, if a loose avocado has been sitting on the supermarket shelf for long enough to turn soft it will have had a lot of fingers pressing into it and bruising the pulp to brown.
How to Use Pumpkin Seeds for Intestinal Worms
Parasites like human intestinal worms are a far more common problem than most people realize. Here is how parasites can enter your body and some of the main symptoms of tapeworm and other parasitic infections.
Also ahead is a natural remedy for intestinal worms in humans, based on a traditional German parasite treatment using raw pumpkin seeds.
The pumpkin seed contains a substance called cucurbitin that treats worms and other parasites by paralyzing them so they can be expelled from your body.
You can use the pumpkin seed treatment ahead for human intestinal parasites like tapeworm, ascariasis, pinworms and ropeworm and it may also help with worms in dogs.
First though, a look at the parasite problem and some of the most common symptoms of parasitic intestinal worms.
Human Intestinal Parasites
Parasites can enter your body through contaminated water or food (particularly meat like pork or uncooked fish), mosquito bites, intimate contact, and through the nose or mouth after touching an infected animal or contaminated surface. Continue Reading…
How to Steam Pumpkin for Maximum Nutrition
There is a better way to cook your pumpkins than boiling that will retain the most nutritional value when you eat them.
It’s also fairly quick and simple and makes for a much better tasting pumpkin, whatever recipe you’re using it for.
Choosing a Pumpkin
Smaller pumpkins tend to be far superior for eating than the larger jack-o’-lantern styles that rarely taste good. Continue Reading…