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70Iron Supplement: How To Find the Best Iron Supplement
If you suffer from iron deficiency, you are likely exhausted all the time, have cold and tingling hands and feet, and reduced color in your face. Symptoms may be worse -- heart murmurs, birth defects, depression, and more. Iron deficiency should be...
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86Phytic acid: Simple kitchen techniques to reduce it in food
Phytic acid is a substance found primarily in grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds that inhibits your absorption of minerals. People who rely on these foods for iron, magnesium, calcium, or zinc can improve their mineral status by using these simple...
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74Sourdough recipes
Sourdough is a traditional bread-baking technique that uses wild yeasts from the air to cause the flour to rise. All bakers used the method in the days before baker's yeast and baking soda. As it turns out sourdough preparation methods are...
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76Sauerkraut Crock: Buying A Good One
Cabbage is known as an antioxidant vegetable -- the many types of cabbage each offer antioxidants a strong antioxidant profile that differs from variety to variety, making the cabbage family a great addition to a healthy diet. That healthy cabbage...
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69Coconut Oil In Baking
Coconut oil is an increasingly popular cooking oil among consumers but most recipes have to be adapted to use coconut oil. The barrier many people find to using it in baking is that it is solid in cold temperatures and liquid in warm temperatures....
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74Cardamom Pods: A Short History
Cardamom belongs to the same family as ginger and tumeric, so it is no surprise that it originated in southern India where ginger and tumeric grow and are highly esteemed in cooking and folk medicine. Cardamom pod is believed to have arrived in...
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66Traditional Foods
Home cooks are increasingly seeking to improve their health by selecting "whole foods" -- unprocessed traditional foods that we cook up in our own kitchens. The movement has been popularized by writer Michael...
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64Cumin Seed: Getting Maximum Flavor
Once you find a good source of cumin seed, you want to be certain to get the most out of your investment. Many spices vary in flavor according to how you use them in cooking. Different cooking processes...
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67Natural Remedies for Depression
Depression is a complicated illness. For some of us, work and family stress are key factors. Talk therapy and life changes are critical; for others, vitamins for depression may be the ticket. Our diets vary. Our needs vary. Different remedies will...
3 comments67Nettle Leaf
Do you need a stash of dried nettle leaf? Yes, especially if you love the tonic qualities of this herb. Nettle leaf has an impressive list of medicinal qualities associated with it. Over the centuries it has been a major player in folk medicine....
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