In The Alternate-Day Diet: Turn on Your “Skinny Gene,” Shed the Pounds, and Live a Longer and Healthier Life, James Johnson , revolutionized the way that people approached dieting. The book offers insights into how alternate-day calorie restriction can prevent disease, increase energy, and slow the ageing process. After witnessing many of his patients struggle […]
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Vanilla Pudding
Vanilla is a flavor derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily from the Mexican species, flat-leaved vanilla. The word vanilla, derived from the diminutive of the Spanish word vaina (vaina itself meaning sheath or pod), translates simply as “little pod”. Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid, called tlilxochitl by the […]