Health Benefits of Jatoba – The Amazonian Tree that Does Not Rot
Jatoba, officially known as Hymenaea courbaril, is a tall rainforest canopy tree. Some Jatoba trees reach towering heights of 90 feet. It is sometimes known as 'stinking toe,' as its seedpods are reminiscent of large toes and have a pungent odor. The tree sports white flowers that are pollinated by bats. Traditionally, jatoba bark and resin have been used for...
Grow Sprouts Indoors All Year Long
The bounty of summer’s gardens and fall’s harvest quickly diminishes as the winter rolls on. This often leaves us with one option: a trip to the grocery store. And while the produce appears clean and crisp, in many cases it has been shipped from far-off places, losing valuable nutrients during transport and gaining an extra coat or two of...
When Alternative Therapies Get a Bad Rap
In a recent article, the Annals of Internal Medicine announced that it was essentially useless for healthy people to take multivitamin supplements. This research may have led some people to question the value of vitamins altogether. However, not all supplements are created equal, and it is important to note that conventional supplements are not at all in the same league...
Stretching Before Bed: Why and How to do It
With so many day-to-day responsibilities, many people have a difficult time turning off the “mind chatter” so that they can fall asleep at night. If you’ve tried using white noise, drinking herbal tea and other methods so that you can get a good night’s rest but nothing has worked, you might want to consider stretching before bed. It may be one...
Worried About a Stroke? Do These 8 Things
Stroke is a leading cause of death in the US, killing almost 130,000 Americans every year. As many as 80 percent of these strokes could be prevented by making some important lifestyle changes. The following are some things you can do to decrease your risk of having a stroke, which can cause early death or negatively impact the quality of...
5 Treadmill Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make
Treadmills are perhaps the most popular piece of exercise equipment around. Over 50 million Americans claim to use them, a statistic that has been growing steadily over the past decade. And while avid road and trail-runners often look at the treadmill with disdain as they far prefer running outdoors, most if not all runners have utilized this piece of...
Buffaloberry – The Little-Known Fruit with a Powerful Antioxidant
The buffaloberry, a resilient, tart, red berry that grows in North America, is the focus of some promising new research. The potential antioxidant benefits of this little berry led the Daily Mail to declare it, "the new superfood of 2014." Scientifically known as Shepherdia argentea, buffaloberries have been harvested for food by indigenous North Americans for hundreds of years. They...
6 Reasons Why Organic Grassfed Butter is a Superfood
In America, one person dies of cardiovascular disease every 39 seconds. Are saturated fats like those found in butter to blame? Does dietary cholesterol really cause heart disease? The answer, based on a mountainous volume of expanding peer reviewed studies is unequivocally NO on both counts. If we told you that real butter made from cows fed grass is one...
Coffee, Nuts and Citrus May Reduce Risk of Type II Diabetes
According to the American Diabetes Association, over 25 million Americans are afflicted with type II diabetes with almost two million new cases are diagnosed each year. Poor diet coupled with the sedentary lifestyle most Americans live these days, have allowed over eight percent of our country to come down with this preventable disease. And while new diet fads and...
Study Finds Connection Between Narcolepsy and Autoimmunity
When the swine flu swept the world a few years ago, hitting China particularly hard, the nation saw a significant increase in the cases of narcolepsy. This disorder is rather mysterious and involves sudden, uncontrollable urges to fall asleep. It turns out that not so coincidentally, in Europe about 1 in 800 children who were given a flu vaccine known...
