If you love growing your own fruits and vegetables, but are unsure how to start using your harvest, now is your chance to learn. Whether you’re new to gardening or have been doing it for years, Raw Garden: Over 100 Healthy and Fresh Raw Recipes is the perfect resource to help you create dishes based […]
Saffron and Depressive Symptoms
Saffron (Crocus sativus) is derived from the flower of the saffron crocus. The history of saffron cultivation reaches back more than 3,000 years. Saffron was detailed in a 7th-century BC Assyrian botanical reference compiled under Ashurbanipal. Documentation of saffron’s use over the span of 4,000 years in the treatment of some 90 illnesses has been […]
Can Pasta Trigger Depression?
Everyone knows that a diet full of white bread, pasta and rice is bad for your waistline. Now scientists say these types of refined carbs could also impact your mind putting post-menopausal women at higher risk for depression. In a study published in the the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers looked at data from […]
Alfalfa Sprout Wraps
Alfalfa is one of the most nutritious foods out there. Its packed with calcium, chlorophyll, carotene, and vitamin K and it’s perfect in a wrap. Mexicans, Armenians, Mid Easterners, Greeks, Turks and Kurds have been eating wraps since before the 1900s. Mexicans refer to them as burritos, and they come in different ingredient varieties, such […]