The earliest recorded recipes produce a boiled custard with pecans added, which is then baked in a pie crust. Some have stated that the French invented pecan pie soon after settling in New Orleans, after being introduced to the pecan nut by Native Americans. Believe or not, July 12 is National Pecan Pie Day. Number […]
Autism and Candida
Why can’t the body’s immune system clear Candida? Candida has many tricks to evade the body’s immune system. The immune system then calls in the reinforcements. These immune cells attack the yeast and generate the signals for inflammation. Inflammation is a defense, like a wall to keep out the Candida. Candida is still there, which […]
Mango Fizz
Mangoes have been cultivated in South Asia for thousands of years and reached East Asia between the fifth and fourth centuries BC. By the 10th century AD, cultivation had begun in East Africa. The 14th-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta reported it at Mogadishu. Cultivation came later to Brazil, the West Indies, and Mexico, where an […]
Rebalancing the Addictive Mind
Many books cater to the fitness and nutritional needs of the general public. But little of this advice is specifically directed toward those who have the literally life-or-death need to keep alcohol, drug, gambling, sex, internet and other addictions at bay. How exercise and diet speed up the recovery process and promote relapse prevention is […]