Jun 4th 2018
Buying organic was once a grocery shopping choice left to a few, forward-thinking folks with a hankering for healthy food and a willingness to go against the grain. They skipped past traditional groce…
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Jun 2nd 2018
There are times that being a health-food nut is like being a kid in a candy store, and that's all good (at times). Take licorice root, for instance. Also known as sweet root, licorice root has often…
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Jun 1st 2018
With its rough prickly leaves, borage may not look like the kind of plant that's going to make your life more comfortable. But this annual herb – when processed into a highly concentrated oil &n…
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May 31st 2018
Cold winter weather can cause an irritatingly dry scalp in many people! But, now it's spring. The weather's not so cold any more. The air not so dry. But your scalp still is. What gives? If your…
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May 30th 2018
The Grapes of Wrath was a literary classic, but that's not important in this context. What is important are the grapes of health, those small berries that come in an assortment of colors – inclu…
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May 29th 2018
Look closely enough and chances are you will see plants growing outside or near your home that have the sort of health benefits typically available at the local pharmacy or in the vitamins section of…
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May 28th 2018
May is National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month. If you're like most people, bone health isn't high on your priorities list. After all, as long as your posture is good and you aren't suffe…
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May 25th 2018
If you have a vision problem… would you know it? That's one of the questions the National Eye Institute is putting before the public this May for Healthy Vision Month. According to the National…
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May 24th 2018
Most of us have a good idea of what collagen is and what its expected best-known use is – smoothing out the wrinkles on our face. But research suggests there's more to collagen than just taking…
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May 11th 2018
Over the last couple of months, we have been featuring in this space a series on the various B-complex vitamins. Now we come to what might be the most complex of the B vitamins when you consider all t…
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May 10th 2018
When it comes to damage control inside the human body, particularly with cells and tissue (like that found in the lungs), few nutrients or minerals can act with the healing power and relief that N-ace…
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May 9th 2018
As we continue onto the next rung of the ladder in our intermittent series on B-complex vitamins, we now come to vitamin B7, otherwise known as biotin. This is a water-soluble vitamin that, among othe…
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