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The Red Hot Healers What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Perhaps the perfect cliché for hot chilli pepper. Then again, some like it hot. Not only can some people withstand the heat, but they also enjoy it. Chilli pepper fans savour the hotness at every opportunity and not just in traditional favourites like tacos and burritos but also other foods like omelettes, stews, salads and even in chocolates. Yes, dark chilli chocolate. Tastes great and has all the benefits. The hot chilli pepper is a lot more than just a little culinary spice. These thermogenic morsels are not only prized around … Read more

The Pungent Healer The Health Benefits of Ginger had its roots deeply embedded in history as long ago as King Henry VIII of England who thought it would protect against plague and the Roman military also keep it handy during their battles on the front line. But it was a Greek philosopher who touted it for digestive health and for good reason as there’s plenty of evidence that this gnarled, piquant root can help relieve dozens of health issues.  I’m utterly confident of the medicinal power of this root. So much so that during my Macrobiotics studies, I’d recommend ginger to … Read more

A Great Source of Fibre and Potassium Not only are the health benefits of figs a fabulous source of fibre and a significant source of potassium, but they also have some great healing powers. They can help lower high blood pressure, relieve constipation, control cholesterol and prevent colon cancer. Figs also have some hard-to-come-by vitamin B6 Fibre is so good for many things because fibrous material builds bulkier stools. It helps eliminate waste quickly and efficiently, which studies show helps prevent constipation and colon cancer. Getting more fibre in your diet also helps lower cholesterol and thus, the risk of heart disease. … Read more

Blood Pressure Protection in a Stalk Whether you love it or loathe it, you cannot debunk the health benefits of celery. Some are crazy about it, and others hate it. The ancient Romans often wore wreaths of celery on their heads as protection against hangovers during their notorious party days. While there is no documentation to validate this claim, it might be best to lay off the heavy stuff and pour yourself a green vegetable juice which includes a few celery stalks. While celery might not stop your head from spinning in all directions, Asian folk have been using celery for … Read more

Nature’s Protectors against Heart Disease, Cancer and Ageing Antioxidant-rich foods with particular reference to plant-based fruit and vegetables are available to us in abundance in most parts of the world with some fantastic healing powers. They are also nature’s protectors against heart disease, cancer, ageing as well as many other degenerative diseases. There are hundreds of natural food compounds that act as antioxidants in your body. And the best thing about them is that you never have to run out of them because you can eat more. We are going to focus on the three most important ones, and they are Vitamin C, … Read more

Stuffed with Antioxidants Sweet Peppers can come in a whole range of colours from dark green to fire engine red, but unlike their fiery-tempered siblings, the chilli peppers, these peppers are mild enough to eat in large quantities allowing you to reap all their health benefits. Not only are they plentiful in markets around the world, but you can also use in soups, salads, sauces, stir-fries, purees and pasta dishes. There’s just so much you can do with them. And these peppers do a lot more than add a sweet note to recipes. They come loaded with essential nutrients which … Read more

A Fresh Approach to Looking Years Younger With a little tender loving care, these 11 super skin foods will give you the radiant glow you’ve always wanted. In an ever-busy working world, most of us haven’t still got the time or inclination to live a healthy lifestyle, and in doing so, we often eat foods that are not good for our optimum health. Whether we do this for the short or the long haul, we tend to gobble down food without questioning the harmful effects that they might cause us. Well, that’s all about to change. The super skin foods here are all packed with super nutrients which will turn your skin … Read more

A Taste of Southern Cuisine While South African food and wide-open spaces are just some of the many pleasures that draw huge crowds of visitors to these shores every year, they also come to Africa to see the wildlife – namely the big five. Some believed that wild animals such as lions even roam our streets. I’m not sure where they got that from, but when I travelled to Europe, it was one of the first questions the Italians and Spaniards would ask me. South Africa is by all accounts one of the most beautiful places on the continent to begin … Read more

A Model for Good Health The benefits of a Mediterranean diet, I can only imagine, could easily be viewed as a model for good health. For the simple reason that it has all the right ingredients and healing powers to help reduce your risk of heart disease and cancer as well as lower your cholesterol levels. It’s all the more reason why you should adopt this healthful lifestyle.  Depending on your age, some of you may vaguely remember that during the early sixties, the rate of heart disease in the United States was skyrocketing. People living on the southern European shores of the … Read more

Are we eating and drinking all the wrong foods? Food Facts – Not only do we get to enjoy eating food, but we can also get a lot of pleasure from drinking food too. But how many of us know whether we are eating and drinking all the right food? In this article, I’ll explain why we may have got it all wrong and what we need to do to change all that. In the meantime, you may want to grab a cup of tea because you may be here for a while. If you need to sweeten your tea, add … Read more