Tag: health

Here are 11 reasons that chocolate is good for you. The universe is benevolent after all. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

Joe Rogan inspires us to live and eat healthy. The advice is good but he does use the F-word a couple of times. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

Nigella Sativa was said by the prophet Mohammed to be “a remedy for all diseases except death.” Also known as black cumin, the seeds and oils of this plant strengthen the immune system and thereby treat a wide range of illnesses. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

If you’ve been wondering about a vegan diet here’s a handy infographic that could set you on the path to veganism, if you dare. [via: PETA] TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

If you are looking for healthy eating, here is a list of 127 foods that are good for you, including some meat. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

What does 2,000 calories look like? Sometimes, it looks like not much. This 2-minute video shows that 2.34 Cinnabons account for 2,000 calories and that equates to 19 bananas. An entertaining food animation, and informative, too. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

Here’s a guest blog on zenhabits by Jules Clancy about how to eat real food without spending hours in the kitchen. At the end of the article there’s a recipe to make a raw broccoli & feta salad. Be sure to click on the Stonesoup link at the end and get a free 90-page cookbook. [...]

We made our second batch of canned sauerkraut, ever, in December. We let the first batch that we made in the fall ferment for two weeks and then eagerly canned it before it turned into some kind of unexpected sauerkraut monster, dripping slime and taking over the kitchen. That first batch turned out edible but [...]

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In his book, 59 seconds–Change your Life in less than a minute, Richard Wiseman writes of his research on giving college students free alcoholic beverages in exchange for their taking simple tests along the way to measure their drunkenness. As they drank more and more the students walked a straight line less and less, got [...]

Two-bit Guru | Give 'n Take | Photo of a weed in the foreground with pole beans in the background getting ready to harvest

“Giving, in all its forms, might be the key to creating heaven on this earth” ~Two-bit Guru~ Throughout the growing season the earth gives us gifts: peas and lettuce early, potatoes and dry beans near the end, but if we didn’t give to the earth along the way, the harvest wouldn’t be nearly as abundant, [...]