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Spice Up Your Health
- Instead of table salt, use sea salt.
- Mix your own herb blend of oregano, thyme, rosemary, parsley and garlic to bring out the natural flavors in a meal.
- Use fresh garlic for maximum benefit. It helps to lower blood pressure and cholesterol. Stay with raw and cooked garlic.
- Eat rosemary. Rosemary's potential cancer prevention property is outstanding because it helps to enhance selenium uptake in the body.
- Use basil, oregano and rosemary together. This combination has been found to help fight colds.
- Thyme is very helpful in treating chronic coughs.
- Got back pain? Eat curry.
- Eat more curry to help fight cancer.
- Add the "warming spices" to your diet to help lower your blood pressure. These include ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, pepper, cayenne pepper. These can make a person feel warm because they bring blood from the center of the body to the skin. This disperses blood throughout the body more evenly, which may decrease blood pressure.
- Use ginger to soothe a tummy-ache. Ginger is one of the oldest, most fundamental way to settle a stomach. The active-component in ginger, called gingerols, have a very relaxing, soothing effect to the intestinal tract. The key is to eat real ginger and not things flavored artificially like many ginger-ales.
Peppermint also has similar effect but be careful because it can be a bit strong. Another one is
chamomile.
Chamomile
has a relaxing and calming effect to digestive issues. But the gingerols in ginger are just great!
- Reduce the sugar by adding spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg. For example, just by adding cinnamon to unsweetened apple sauce, your body will feel as if it's been 'sweetened.'
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