Cinnamon and Blood Sugar Levels
August 16th, 2010
Cinnamon Lowers High Blood Sugar
Cinnamon bark has been used for thousands of years for culinary and medicinal purposes in Sri Lanka, India, and the Middle East.
Recently, research has shown that Cinnamon bark can be helpful to lower blood sugar levels. It has been found to be effective in treating people who have type 2 diabetes. People with this condition do not need to take injections of insulin, but are often taking oral antidiabetic medications and/or are following special diets: this means that the test group in the research had a less severe type of diabetes than do those people who ...
Serenity Now Herbal Incense
August 15th, 2010
What is Serenity Now Herbal Incense?
To be quite frank, I do not know this product, and I haven't seen it in our health stores a yet in New Zealand. However, I am rather hoping that this incense might be the real thing, something which actually benefits your health, rather than a product which contains harmful ingredients.
Toxic Chemicals in Incense: The reason for writing this post is essentially to warn people that they MUST ensure that the incense they are burning in their houses does not have toxic chemicals in it. Some chemicals which are used in cheap incenses are ...
Tamarind Paste
August 15th, 2010
Benefits of Tamarind
Ayurvedic medicine uses tamarind as an herbal medicine. Ask your ayurvedic practitioner for advice on uses of tamarind for the health.
Tamarind paste is an incredibly versatile cooking commodity to have in your kitchen. Using tamarind paste in your cooking is very healthy, as it helps to promote good digestion, and encourages effective elimination. This might be partly due to the fact that the Vitamin C content of the tamarind fruit, even when the fruit is dried and made into a paste, is exceptionally high.
Tamarind paste is an important ingredient of Indian cooking, and in the cooking of ...
Food Sources of Vitamin C
August 12th, 2010
Natural Food Sources of Vitamin C:
All fruits and vegetables contain Vitamin C.
Vitamin C helps support the immune system and is a powerful antioxidant. It has been used for many years in alternative cancer treatments, but now it has been proven as a fact to be a cancer preventative. This finding was made public just two weeks ago, by research scientists in New Zealand.
So now we can be certain of the value of Vitamin C in maintaining a healthy immune system. Vitamin C is vital to good health.
Vitamin C is destroyed in cooking, so some raw fruits and vegetables must ...
Vitamin C and Colds
August 11th, 2010
Vitamin C : Colds
Does Vitamin C work as a treatment for the common cold?
Research done thus far suggests that Vitamin C, as an additional supplement to the diet, does not work on its own as a prophylactic for the common cold in most cases.
However, in groups of people who were tested as for the efficacy of vitamin C in treating the common cold, it was found that Vitamin C did actually work to reduce the expected duration of the common cold. Dr Holt and Iona MacDonald have an essay entitled 'Vitamin C and the common cold' which you can find ...
