I’ve been wearing glasses for about 14 years. About 7 years ago I started wearing contact lenses. The first few years were the worst because my vision continued to degrade each passing year as I visited the ophthalmologist and endured an hour of those tedious exams: having a gun of air being shot into your [...]
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5 Ways to Feel Good and Boost Your Immune System
Break Out of Routines. Mix things up for once. The more you adhere to routines, the more mechanical and rigid you become. If you act like a rock, you’re absolutely going to become cold, hard, stiff, and sick. Most people wonder why they get sick 10+ times per year without stopping to think about their [...]
Whole Foods Market is Disgusted with Silk Soy Milk
I’ve been wondering why I couldn’t purchase my favorite Chocolate Silk Soymilk from Whole Foods these past few weeks. Instead, I’ve been purchasing Earth Balance Organic Chocolate Soymilk, which at first tasted a bit weird to me, but the taste is growing on me. Today, I finally asked one of the stock boys at Whole [...]
The Jolly Rancher Herb — Yellow Verbena, The Cold Fighter
When I smell the herb yellow verbena, the first thing that comes to mind are those green translucent Jolly Rancher candies that I used to eat as a child. I’m not quite sure if I’ve ever experienced such a delicious smell from an herb before. Well, amazing scent aside, yellow verbena, native to South America, [...]
Health Benefits of Jamaican Callaloo and How to Cook Callaloo
As a child I recall walking into the kitchen and seeing a large pan overflowing with greens. Chopped greens with onions, garlic, and pepper frying in an open pan while mom was in her usual cooking frenzy dashing across the kitchen like a pinball — back and forth between the oven, fridge, cabinets, and sink. [...]
My Experiment of Eating Supperdy Duppedy Hot Hot Hot Peppers — I Almost Died!
Every year in May, Sonia A. orders about 15 varieties of hot hot hot peppers from New Jersey and proceeds to grow them for several months until they are ready for harvest in mid-August through September. I was inspired to write this short piece on hot peppers after seeing how much she loved her peppers. [...]
Really Really Raw Pistachio Nuts
My father recently returned home for a long trip to Persia (Iran) and brought me back some goodies! Raw pistachio nuts and raw white mulberries that have been sun dried. What’s really interesting about the raw pistachioes is that they are like no other nuts I’ve ever seen before. They actually have the green, yellow, [...]
How to use Coca Leaves – Health Benefits Revealed
Regardless of popular belief, coca leaves are actually good for you. Yes, I said coca leaves – responsible for the additive drug we know as cocaine. Sadly, due to the ignorance towards South American cultures, stigmatization of the coca plant, and straight-up propaganda against this amazing plant, people are left scared and unable to experience [...]
Hell’s Kitchen vs Heaven’s Kitchen
There’s a lot of talk about the upcoming season 6 of Hell’s Kitchen. The current buzz is over the F-bomb that was dropped several times by a hot cast member along with Chef Gordon Ramsay. But more importantly, the question that comes to mind is whether your kitchen is a Hell or a Heaven? For [...]
4 Natural Ways to Stop Excessive Sweating
Have cold and clamy hands all the time? Have disgusting sweat marks on your shirts and sweaters all the time? Embarrassed to shake someone’s hand with your wet and slimy hands? Want to stop excessive sweating? It has many names: underarm sweating, sweaty hands, sweaty palms, etc.. If you’ve experienced these symptoms then you, my [...]
Kava Kava Natural Remedies
As a little plant with a Latin name as compelling as Piper methysticum, or “intoxicating pepper,” kava certainly has a reputation. There are many questions, opinions, and misconceptions about this mystical root from the South Pacific – so let’s begin to clear them up and sort them out. What is it Kava Kava? Kava kava [...]
The Best Health Insurance is the Food You Eat
It was about 2 years ago when I graduated from college and was dropped from my parents’ health insurance plan. Since then, I’ve be uninsured… well, at least in the typical fashion of paying $250 bucks per months for a policy. I gave that a shot for a month, but cancelled the insurance after a [...]
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