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Category Archives for "Energy Giving Foods"Foods that give you energy and help you to perform at your best each day. Each of these vegetables, fruits, oils, nuts and seeds are powerful energy giving foods for better heath.
Slowing Down Eating for Better Digestion
In this article:
- Why eating your food quickly hampers digestion and leads to intestinal problems.
- The importance of chewing to the digestive process and what happens when you rush your meal.
- How to chew your food properly for better digestion and more energy.
Stop Eating So Fast
Most people with digestive issues tend to eat their meals very quickly. This is a problem because not chewing your food properly puts serious strain on the entire process of digestion.
How to Take Cod Liver Oil, Dosage and Recommended Brands
Taking cod liver oil daily is a valuable way to supplement your body with important omega-3 fatty acids as well as vitamin A and vitamin D.
This page has how and when to take cod liver oil, a recommended dosage for regular use and where to buy good cod liver oil online.
When Should You Take Cod Liver Oil?
Where to Buy Amla Powder Online — Organic, Capsules, Amla Oil & Indian Gooseberries
Amla, also known as Indian gooseberry or amalaki, is a potent and rejuvenating superfood, rich in protective antioxidants to combat free radical damage within your body.
Here’s where to buy the best brand of amla powder to take as a nutritional supplement or use as a natural hair and skin treatment.
Also ahead, where to get Indian gooseberry juice, whole amalaki fruit and the best organic amla powder capsules.
Amla Uses and Benefits
Amla fruit powder extract can be taken daily to enhance your immunity, improve digestion, maintain healthy skin and hair and combat free radical damage that leads to aging. Continue Reading…
How to Use Almonds for Weight Loss
Many people are still under the impression that nuts like almonds are fattening. They may think that due to their high fat content and calories that almonds can’t possibly be good for weight loss.
In fact, used as a replacement for what the vast majority of people snack on, nuts, like these delicious organic almond nuts, are actually an exceptional weight loss food. Here’s why.
How Almonds Help You Lose Weight
Nutritional values for almonds per 100 grams show they have around 20 grams of protein and approximately 48 grams of fat, primarily monounsaturated like olive oil and avocados.
Pumpkin Seed Oil Dosage, Timing and Best Price
Pumpkin seed oil is a deep green oil, rich in essential fatty acids, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals and other health nutrients.
Here is the best pumpkin seed oil dosage, when to take it for the most benefit and where to get good pumpkin seed oil at a low price.
Why Use Pumpkin Seed Oil?
Triphala Churna Benefits for Hair, Skin and Intestinal Health
Triphala is one of the most highly prized formulas in traditional Indian Ayurveda and it can have some remarkable benefits for your wellbeing and appearance.
The name triphala means ‘three fruits’ and it is made by combining preparations of dried and powdered bibhitaki, haritaki and amalaki (commonly known as amla).
Each of these fruits have their own beneficial properties. However, according to Ayurveda, when they are combined in triphala powder the positive effects are amplified.
Triphala Churna for Internal Detoxification
Digestive Tract Cleansing and Nutrient Absorption
4 Nutritional Skin Benefits of Avocados
Avocados are rich in antioxidants, vitamins and fatty acids that can really improve your skin from the inside.
You can also use the fruit topically on your face for deep moisturization and regeneration.
Let’s have a look at 4 of the best benefits of avocado for your skin.
1. Vitamin C
Why Your Carrots Really Should Be Organic Carrots
Carrots are a very healthy food but they have a big problem if they are conventionally grown carrots and not organic. This page explains why organic carrots are the best kind of carrots if you value your health.
The very same reason that makes carrots so nutritious – their ability to absorb up so many nutrients from the soil – is also the reason why they are so good at absorbing up pesticides and even heavy metals from the ground they’re in.
A farmer who was a friend of the family once told me that when they are having trouble growing vegetables in a field, they put carrots in for a season and they’ll absorb up all the ‘crap’ from the ground so other vegetables can grow again.
He said these carrots went for stock feed, but I doubt that’s always the case. Ever since then I’ve always bought organic carrots.
I also choose organic supplements wherever possible too. My latest favorite is this Organifi Gold powder, with 9 superfoods for stress relief, inflammation reduction and better sleep.
Pesticides in Conventionally Grown Carrots
Why is Pumpkin so Healthy?
Pumpkins are one of the most overlooked foods in terms of health benefits and nutrients. It seems many people’s only exposure to this extremely healthy food is sugar laden pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Even worse, millions of pumpkins are hollowed out for carving at Halloween, with the pumpkin meat and seeds, probably about the healthiest thing in the kitchen at the time, never used.
Pumpkins deserve better. In fact, with the incredible array of health nutrients in pumpkins, they should really be considered a superfood. And one we’d do well to eat a lot more often.
Antioxidant in Pumpkins
A Special Black Walnut Pesto Recipe to Kill Parasites
Black walnuts are a well known human parasite killer and were traditionally used by Native Americans for internal cleansing and digestive problems.
They contain potent compounds like juglone that can rid the body of many kinds of harmful organisms. The still green black walnut hull is even more potent for intestinal worms and you can read much more about it in Using Black Walnuts for Parasites.
This page though will share a black walnut pesto recipe I came up with recently. It includes several other worm killing ingredients and makes a tasty accompaniment to many meals.
A Warm Pumpkin Salad with Salmon and Pumpkin Seeds
This is a great tasting warm salad for getting more nutritious pumpkin and pumpkin seeds into your diet. It’s full of superfoods, very healthy and quite filling as well.
If pumpkin is not in season, butternut squash should be and makes a good alternative with a delicious taste and a similar nutritional profile.
You can make this warm salad recipe with either pumpkin or butternut squash with the same directions ahead.
Recipe Ingredients for 2
5 Reasons to Eat More Papaya
Papaya is an excellent source of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients and digestive enzymes.
Here are 5 ways papaya fruit benefits your health. All great reasons to eat more of this amazing energy food.
1. Papaya Digestive Enzymes
Digestive enzymes in papaya, particularly papayas that are still a bit green, contain protein digesting enzymes like papain. When eaten with or soon after a meal containing meat or another high protein food, these enzymes help to break down the protein into its individual amino acids.
A Crunchy and Delicious Pumpkin Seed Pesto Recipe
Here is a healthy and crunchy pumpkin seed pesto recipe that is full of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and other nutrition. Use it wherever you’d use normal pesto for a strong and rich taste that is really good for you.
This recipe adds extra flavor and crunch to salads and steamed veggies and it goes really well with brown rice, sardines, organic chicken, pumpkin and tomato dishes.
You’ll need a good food processor like this to make it, but you’re really missing out on a lot of great food if you don’t have one of these anyway.
Ingredients
A Healthy Pumpkin Curry Soup Recipe
This is a very simple and really healthy soup for the cold winter months and it’s good to have something much better for you than pumpkin pie to make with pumpkins.
Pumpkin and coconut go really well together, while the curry paste and bell pepper add a tasty kick to the soup. There’s a lot of health nutrients in this recipe and with all the good fiber it’s surprisingly filling as well.
You’ll need a good blender to make up this soup recipe. If you don’t have one I can highly recommend this powerful one I have in my kitchen.
Ingredients for 2:
A Rich and Healthy Pumpkin Risotto Recipe
Here’s a recipe for a great tasting yet healthy pumpkin and mushroom risotto using BPA-free canned pumpkin and shiitake mushrooms.
Alternatively, fresh steamed pumpkin is great in this risotto recipe if it’s in season. Butternut squash also makes a fine replacement.
For the mushrooms you can also use other stronger tasting varieties such as portobellos, but shiitake mushrooms are best if you can find them.
Pumpkin and Mushroom Risotto Ingredients (serves 2 to 3)
A Carrot and Parsley Soup Recipe for Healthy Skin
I like my soups quick, simple and tasty, with as many superfoods as I can pack into them. This carrot and parsley soup really fits the bill.
Both parsley and carrot are excellent skin foods. But with the addition of garlic, turmeric and coconut oil, this soup is a really nutritious food for healthy skin.
Ingredients
A High Nutrition Carrot and Celery Soup Recipe
Carrot soup is a great way to get your beta-carotene and other health nutrients. The way I like to make it is really quick and simple and has other very healthy ingredients like celery and turmeric.
This carrot and celery soup uses a blender and makes a delicious, easy and warming lunch or dinner coming into winter.
The ingredients below serves two but you can double as needed for more people.
Ingredients:
4 Detoxifying Carrot Juice Recipes for Better Health
Here are 4 very healthy carrot juice recipes to detoxify your body while improving your skin, enhancing your immunity and boosting your energy levels.
Each are quick to make, use just a few ingredients and, enjoyed regularly, they can make a really difference to your overall health and well-being. I hope you like them.
A Carrot, Beet and Pineapple Juice for Liver Detoxification
A Spicy Thai Curry Butternut Squash Soup Recipe
Here is a spicy butternut squash soup with curry to warm you up over the colder months. It’s based on combining a traditional Thai recipe for yellow curry with the richness of coconut milk and butternut squash for a great tasting soup full of nutrition.
This is what you’ll need to make it up for yourself.
Ingredients for 4
A Super Healthy Butternut Squash Soup Recipe
This butternut soup recipe combines antioxidant rich squash with extremely healthy broccoli and its anti-cancer compounds.
It also has bell pepper for its high vitamin C, coconut oil and coconut milk for their important medium chain fatty acids and turmeric and garlic for even more powerful antioxidants.
It would be hard to make up a butternut squash soup that tastes as great as this does while still being so incredibly good for your health.
There is quite a bit of broccoli in this soup, but you’ll find it blends in really well with the other ingredients. Even if you don’t usually like it by itself, this is a great way to get one of the healthiest vegetables out there into your diet.