There are plenty of drink myths out there – what’s good for you and what’s not are easily confused as drink companies label their empty calorie-laden, corn-syrup filled liquid candies with labels like “antioxidant” and “all-natural.” But it’s healthy to choose fruit juice, right? Actually, it may not always be the right decision, for your [...]
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The Natural Cure for Anemia (or Impotence…) May Lie in the Carao Tree
Anemia is a condition of the blood that arises when you have less than normal red blood cells in your blood — when you have insufficient amounts of hemoglobin, the essential protein that carries oxygen from your lungs throughout your entire body. With anemia, oxygen cannot properly travel to all the different parts of your [...]
Scrap Your Bottled Moisturizer: Make Your Own Skin Creams
Moisturizer is that magic elixir that metrosexuals, black folk like me, and everyone with very dry skin considers essential. It keeps the skin supple, comfy, glowing, and young-looking. But over-the-counter lotions and creams also sometimes contains mineral-based oils which clog the pores, and unpronounceable ingredients our bodies don’t understand. For years, I’ve used a variety [...]
Smell Fresh the Natural Way: Make Your Own Deodorant
Not everyone needs a powerful, sweat-absorbing antiperspirant. I don’t know about you, but the last time I checked, we weren’t all firefighters or police officers who drip sweat all day. Some of us don’t really sweat that much. But we wanna smell fresh. Fresh as the summer wind or the wee daisy flower, if you [...]
Stop Filling your Head with Toxic Colors: Make your own Natural Hair Dyes and Highlights
Most conventional hair dyes are full of toxic ingredients like bleach and ammonia. Such ingredient lists are on the cancer radar and are also said to cause brain tumors, and other conditions. Mother Nature the Beautician Nature supplies us with various colorful foods and herbs that can easily replace the usual store-bought, chemical-laden colorants for [...]
Know Your Limit: Even Natural Remedies Can Backfire
Colloidal Silver Turned this Man’s Skin Blue, and He’s Still Using it? One of my own favorite natural remedies for infection, colloidal silver is reportedly responsible for turning Paul Karason’s skin blue. He’s been living with this ‘irreversible’ condition, known as argyria for over a decade and has never sought professional help for it. According [...]
What Does “All-Natural” Really Mean?
It goes without saying that those trying to live healthier lifestyles are attracted to goods that are grown naturally. But now, there’s reason to believe that just because a product is labeled as natural, it may not be any better for you. That’s because, up until now, no industry regulations have been set on the [...]
Arnica: A Natural Cure for Muscle Pain
Dancers and athletes are quite often afflicted with muscle pain and discomfort. Those of us who are less physically still sometimes need relief from muscle soreness and pain. We sometimes experience, and need treatment for sprains, bruises, and inflammation (redness, swelling, pain) caused sometimes by insect bites or arthritis. Common treatments from decades ago usually [...]
Antiperspirants are Again Under the Scanner — Learn How to Make Your Own Deodorant
Recently some researchers in the UK created a huge scare by claiming that antiperspirants used by women caused breast cancer. They claimed that the aluminum used in the antiperspirant mimics estrogens and thus increases the risk of breast cancer. Does Using Antiperspirants Retain Harmful toxins Within the Body? Most experts assure us that there is [...]
Are You Eating Your Algae?
Allow me to introduce you to Spirulina, most recently deemed the super-est of all super foods. Spirulina, a form of blue-green algae, boasts 10 times more beta carotene than carrots, is about 65% protein and provides us with essential fatty acids, phytonutrients, probiotics, and antioxidants. Millions of years ago, before we were even a tear [...]
Natural Antibiotics that Fight Infection
Many of us no longer want to jump on the antibiotic bandwagon each time we get a sore throat or infection. These apprehensions are well-founded considering the more recent occurrences of Candida and fungal infections that are thought to be caused by antibiotics, and the fact that diseases seem to be getting smarter each day. [...]
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