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  • The Many Uses and Benefits of the Yellow Fruit, Most Famous Citrus Called Lemon
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] We all know lemons, citruses growing in warmer climates, available to us year round. This small yellow fruit is probably the most famous for its C vitamin (renowned antioxidant) content and has traditionally been used during colds and flus. However, there are many other benefits of the lemon juice we sometimes take for granted or tend to overlook them. To help you appreciate this little yellow treasure even more, here are some tips for the use of lemon you might not have heard about before.


  • When and How to Swallow Tablets and Capsules - Finding the Best Way
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] There are plenty of people out there who have no troubles whatsoever to swallow just about any kind of medication or supplement, no matter in what form or size it comes. Naturally, to them the question "how to swallow a pill" is never an issue. The other end of this stick represents their extreme opposite: people who cannot swallow any kind of tablet or capsule, no matter how small. So, let's look at some helpful tips for everyone.


  • Garlic and Onion, Indispensable Food and Medicine Since Antiquity
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Garlic's taste has just as many fans as garlic's "repellant breath" (according to Pliny, Roman's naturalist and author, 23/24-79 A.D.) has enemies. So much so that in ancient Roman times some of the temples would not let entering those who ate garlic. The fear of "foul odor" stretched as far as affecting the use - or the lack of use - of onion and garlic in fine urban cooking recipes.


  • Mom, I've Never Had a Sore Throat Like This Before!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] That Thursday morning, I woke up my son at six o'clock in the morning as usual. Even in the dark of the room, with only the little light from the night light in the hall I noticed right away how pale he was. In the next moment he clutched his throat and could barely whisper: "Mom, I've never had a sore throat like this before!"


  • How Angelica Herb Got Its Name In The Year Of The Great Plague In 1665, London
    [Reference-and-Education] One of the greatest legends about angelica dates back to 1665, the year of the great plague in London. In early spring of 1665 the number of deaths, caused by plague, was on the rise in poorer sections of London. Death rate escalated when the spring turned into one of the hottest summers ever. As the panic set in, the rich, followed by the merchants, lawyers, clergy and surgeons left the city.


  • The Great Nutritional Facts and Other Good Qualities and Functions of Fruits
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] One of the best ways to enjoy these nature's perfect gifts is - to eat them fresh and alone (without combining them with other foods or even eating them on top of other foods) since they are digested and utilized more rapidly than other foods. The only exemption seems to be citrus fruits, combined with nuts. Citrus' high level of acid assists the digestion of fats in nuts.


  • Discover the 5 Essential Rules of Food Combining
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Standard diets contain numerous recommendations regarding healthy nutrition. They classify foods, herbs, spices and beverages as "good" or "bad" - for everybody. (Un)fortunately, we are all unique and different. Every person has their own metabolic type, blood type, sensitivities and most of us at least some health issues. We live in different climate and environmental conditions and each of us has a very unique collection of inherited (or mutated) genes.


  • Disadvantages of Using Tap Water for a Drinking and Cooking Supply
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Water is the most abundant and the most important medium on Earth as well as in the human body. Because water is an universal solvent, all the other substances are found in it, dissolved to different degrees and that is why pure water can not be found in nature. Mineral content of natural waters (and waters in our bodies) varies.


  • The Complete Beginner's Guide to Knowledge about Vitamin E
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Vitamin E was discovered during experiments on rats in 1922. Devoid of vitamin E, the rats became infertile. Adding wheat germ oil to their food restored their fertility. The oil-based substance was therefore at first called "antisterility vitamin". "Tocopherol" in Greek means "to bear children" (from tokos – "offspring" and phero – "to bear").


  • Three Principal Carbohydrates and the Foods in Which they are Present
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Carbohydrates are organic molecules (contain carbon and come from living sources) and are our main source of energy. Three principal carbohydrates according to their structure) are: sugars, starches and fiber.


  • Playing in Dirt Has Environmental, Aesthetic, Nutritious and Health Benefits
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] Every homeowner appreciates the view of surrounding yard, filled with vegetation; bursting into new life in spring, blooming in summer, changing colors in fall and dormant in winter under the peaceful, white blanket of snow. After digging and planting for long, many times sweaty hours, growth and flowering are priceless rewards for the gardener as well as the pleasing visual focal point for passers-by.


  • 10 Reasons to Consider Natural Landscaping
    [Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] Development of new land almost always means the removal of native vegetation which is in most cases replaced with flora, not native to that particular area. New landscapes have a tendency to evolve into sterile yards, dominated by lawns, not welcoming to the local wildlife and in addition, they require a lot of fertilizers, pesticides and water.


  • Bankruptcy - Adding Insult to Illness and Injury
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] "The role of biomedicine has been largely technological. As well as pharmaceutical armoury, it has also developed sophisticated methods of detecting and treating disorders. At a microbiological level its impressive achievements include work with complex genetic and metabolic conditions, and it has greatly improved our chances of surviving accidental trauma. But the general application of biomedicine has not seen widespread success. Having played its part in eradicating the disorders of the impoverished preceding centuries, it is becoming increasingly ineffective in addressing the rise of major health problems in present times - the so-called 'lifestyle' disorders." 2 (Mitchell, viii)


  • History of Parsley: Parsley in Greek History
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] Native to Mediterranean, parsley has been cultivated and used in culinary and medicine for thousands of years. In times of Hippocrates (he was born around the year 460 BC on the Greek island of Kos) parsley has been used in cure-all remedies, as antidote to poisons, to cure rheumatism, for relieving kidney and bladder stones and more.


  • Easy Gardening - How to Propagate Parsley
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] Parsley is one of a kind among the herbal species. It takes its own sweet time to germinate which can take as long as up to six weeks. So, you better have a good measure of patience on hand when growing parsley from seeds. There is, however, an easy way to grow any quantity/variety of parsley in your garden, in your flower bed, or in container on your patio.


  • Easy Gardening - Parsley Varieties
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] Parsley is one of the most well known herbs and also one of the easiest to use. It tastes fresh and its flavor goes with almost any food except deserts. You can sprinkle it on your eggs or add it to almost any other dish on your menu. You can use it fresh or dry, year-round. It also beautifully embellishes your dinner plate sprinkled chopped on top of the food or as side decoration.


  • Florida Native Plants - Prickly Pear in My Backyard
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] One morning, earlier this spring I noticed there was a cactus growing in the woods behind our home. Since I'm not particularly fond of cactuses (my preference is a lot of bold colors year round in the garden, without thorns whenever possible), I didn't think about it much...


  • How to Grow Herbs - Angelica (Angelica Archgangelica, Angelica Atropurpurea)
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] Angelica is used in the kitchen and in herbal medicine, as well as in confectionery, perfume and wine and liqueur industry. The whole plant is aromatic but in Europe it is only grown for its root. Two year old root should be dug in September or October, sliced and dried rapidly, and stored in air-tight containers to preserve the medical qualities for several years.


  • Distilled Water Yes (and When?) Or No?
    [Food-and-Drink] Opinions about distilled water are highly controversial. Some of the most pragmatic "pros" and "cons" regarding distilled water's consumption are listed below.


  • Which Water Filtration System to Choose?
    [Home-Improvement:Appliances] Clean water is the essence of life and our ultimate human right. Therefore, we should know what our drinking water contains to make quality decision about proper filtration or proper water source.


  • Mineral Waters – What Are They?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] In nature, most waters are mineral waters because they contain minerals. In sales, on the other hand, every country has its own regulations to define which waters can be considered and sold as bottled mineral waters.


  • The Role of Nutrition in Prevention of Illness and Health Maintenance
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Human body needs food as a source of energy and as a fuel to maintain life. It is quite obvious that nutrition plays a major role in health as well as sickness. Fortunately, there are more and more practitioners available who are nutritionists.


  • 15 to 20 Minute Workout Versus Exercising for an Hour
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Look, we've been led to believe that, for some unknown reason, a 'workout' needs to last an hour or it's not worth doing at all. That's nonsense!"


  • Clean, Fresh Water – Essential Nutrient for Life
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] By far the largest percent of human body's volume consists of water, which is also the solvent for all soluble essentials that maintain life and enable cell and tissue growth. Water is present in almost every process in the body, helps to eliminate toxins out of your body, helps regulate the temperature of the body, lubricates and cushions joints, keeps our skin healthy and more. Water requirements are different...


  • Pelican Man's Bird Sanctuary, Sarasota - Florida
    [Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] All of the birds are supposed to be released back in the wild. Unfortunately, that's not always possible. Some of the injuries are so severe that a survival is endangered. For that reason some birds are given a permanent home in natural, spacious habitat at the Pelican Man's Bird Sanctuary.


  • A Cup of Tea to Nurture Your Body and Lose a Pound or Two
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Even though a soothing cup of tea is a perfect treat any time of the year, the beginning of the season of the cold, short, sun-lacking days is especially good time to pamper yourself with a cup of hot herbal tea or even better, try a new taste.


  • Linden Flowers Tea for More Warmth in Your Body and Your Soul
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] After a few minutes of observation and several neatly shaped clouds of smoke, he would tell me how many days before the linden flowers are going to be ready for picking and drying - for year-round supply of delicious tea that (at least in my experience) provides more warmth to your body than any other herbal tea.


  • Naturopathy - The Five Basic Principles
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] The basic principles of naturopathy are slightly different than other common recommendations for healthy living. Naturopathy was rediscovered in 19th century by the people who couldn't agree with traditional medical practices. At the time, regaining health with the minimum of doctoring, using diet, exercise, bathing and massage was officially declared as "ungodly" or "unscientific"


  • 'Take for Granted' Meaning While Living In Abundance
    [Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] It has to be the nature of the human (or our ego) that we so easily take for granted everything that's available to us in bounty. We forget to be grateful (without even noticing it) and the biggest flaw is – we cease to enjoy all the plentiful goodies!


  • Simple Living Guide - An Essential Ingredient of Healthy Dieting
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] It happens to be quite overwhelming nowadays to choose the right diet for ourselves when we start to feel like we need one. There are so many offers out there (diets are obviously a big business) that one can easily feel confused and lost among the loads of information bombarding us via all sorts of media's advertising.


  • Simple Living Guide - Break Sugar Addiction
    [Health-and-Fitness] Are you addicted to sugary foods? Do you crave sweets? There's a natural solution worth trying to break sugar addiction.


  • Easy Living Guide - Take Care of Your Feet
    [Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] These elaborate and at the same time delicate parts of our body are usually expected to serve us tirelessly as long as we need them to - without being pampered properly - in most cases.


  • Easy Garden - Plant Your Plants in the Cheapest Planters on the Planet
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] Not being able to stay away from the flowers and herbs and veggies, I keep running out of planters over and over again. Unfortunately, the nearest store is not right across the street and as it's really urgent to plant some new seeds I've just received in the mail (now!), I am forced to use my creativity


  • Easy Garden - Propagate Rosemary (Rosmarinus Officinalis) - 3 Easy Ways
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] This perennial is easy to grow in full sun and well drained, light soil. Three ways to propagate rosemary are: from seeds, from cuttings and by layering-


  • Herbs - Her Majesty - The Rosemary (Rosmarinus Officinalis)
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] Not only is the aroma, rosemary's taste is also distinguishing. That's a good reason to be conservative whenever using it as a spice. A fresh sprig of rosemary makes a nice decoration with many foods, especially fish. Just don't try to put it in your mouth and chew on it-


  • Environment - Ways to Recycle Water in Your Kitchen
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] Here is and idea about how to use the recycled water straight from the kitchen sinks - for all you gardeners out there. With almost no effort we can catch and reuse some of the water we exploit in our homes on a daily basis.


  • Growing Mini Garden - Terraria (Terrarium)
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] If you are a busy or lazy plant lover, terrarium is a perfect way of keeping some live plants in your home. Miniature garden in glass container or bowl looks very decorative and requires no fuss the regular plants in potting soil do.


  • Garden - Sunflower Spacing
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] Every plant needs plenty of room to grow, sunflowers especially. If their seeds are planted too close together, they won't reach their full potential. Their heads will be smaller.


  • Skin - How to Take Care of Feet
    [Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Taking care of feet is often a neglected area of our daily body-care routine. These great parts of our bodies are carrying us around (no matter how heavy we are) all day long and all we want them to, frequently in very uncomfortable shoes and some socks that don't even breathe.


  • Easy Garden Tips - Plants in Pots and Burning Heat
    [Home-and-Family:Gardening] It's getting harder and harder to keep the container plants from wilting or dying out in the burning heat of the hottest summer days. Did you try different things to improve the matter but nothing really worked both ways (for good drainage as well as for keeping the moisture in the soil)? So did I! Here's what I found out.


  • Nutrition - Nourish Your Body and Reduce Digestive Problems - 4 Basic Principles
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Even if you spend a really short time for your meal, paying attention to what you're doing/eating is very important. All of a sudden you will notice that what you're consuming actually has a taste, a smell and a texture.


  • Skin - An Important Ingredient of Your Daily Facial Care
    [Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] There's an ingredient in our daily skin-care routine that's ignored or forgotten far too often. Additionally, in my opinion it's considerably more important than most people realize. The good news - like most of best things in our lives - it's free.




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