Essential vitamins your body needs
Vitamins are elements in nature which are essential to life. Since herbs are a source of vitamins, it’s helpful to know more about which vitamins are particularly important and useful for various ailments and illnesses that come along in life. Mixing vitamins, minerals and herbs will usually give you the best health and wellness results in life. This is one of the reasons why we mix multiple herbs and foods together sometimes, because the mixtures provide us with more results than the individual elements do alone.
Now, if we were to eat the proper amount of fresh vegetables and fruits - particularly raw or lightly cooked ones - we wouldn’t need to worry about adding vitamins and minerals through supplements or herbs. Even eating plenty of fruits and vegetables alone may not be enough these days though unfortunately, because many pesticides and chemicals are used when food …
Medicine Foods Leafy Greens
Dark, leafy green vegetables are healthy for you. You’ve probably been told this your entire life, but it may not be fully clear just how healthy they are. Spinach and mustard greens for instance, are packed with a wide variety of vitamins and minerals that not only keep you healthy, they also help prevent hair loss and they can help prevent common chronic illness and disease too.
Many people don’t like to eat leafy green vegetables because they’ve never had real ones. In fact, many kids hate spinach because it’s slimy and gross, so they go into their adult lives hating spinach and refusing to touch it. In reality though, spinach is only slimy and gross if it comes in a can, or if it’s cooked too long.
Canned spinach is disgusting for most people. It sits in the can with water or other juices for months - sometimes …
Medicine Foods Broccoli
Another common food that works as excellent medicine for our bodies is broccoli. Most people know that broccoli is nutritious, but what they don’t know is that it can actually help fight cancer as well. Broccoli actually kills cancer cells, as does other cruciferous vegetables such as brussel sprouts. When you combine the cancer power of broccoli with the medicinal power of other vegetables and fruits though, you end up with an even more powerful natural food medicine.
According to the WebMD blog in April of 2007 for instance, new research results have shown that eating both broccoli and tomatoes on a daily basis is actually effective at fighting prostate tumors in men.
The study was conducted on rats at the University of Illiois, and it compared the results of feeding these rats tomatoes by themselves, broccoli by itself, the two combined together, or just a lycopene supplement, which is …
Medicine Foods Blueberries
Berries are one of the healthiest types of food you can eat. In fact, many people consider them to be edible medicine. Blueberries specifically are known for their high cancer fighting potency, and both the fruits and the plants have been used as medicine by Native Americans for hundreds of years.
Tea made from the roots of a blueberry plant for instance, have been used throughout history to help ease the pains of childbirth. Tea has also been made from the leaves of blueberry plants to help quiet coughs, and to help cleanse the blood too.
In recent decades though, blueberries have started getting attention and enthusiasm from researchers and scientists. Blueberries are packed with vitamins such as C and K, plus a one cup serving has a whopping four grams of fiber in it. The fruit is low calorie too, which makes it a wonderful choice for anyone looking …
Medicine Foods Grapes
Grapes are finally coming in to their own as not just a healthy food to eat, but a critical one to eat if you want to prevent or cure a wide variety of chronic health conditions, diseases, or problems. In fact, some people believe that grapes will actually cure cancer, and scientific evidence is mounting that grapes can prevent cancer too.
Eating grapes alone is beneficial to your health by themselves, but their healing and health power is actually made stronger by eating other foods which are known to be quite healthy for you too. Making garlic part of your regular diet for instance, as well as nuts and other types of berries, will provide your body with the strongest and best defenses against a variety of common illnesses, diseases, and chronic health problems.
One of the biggest reasons grapes are so healthy for you though, is because they are …
