Fight Cancer With Broccoli Sprouts
Fight Cancer With Broccoli Sprouts
By Jeannie Crabtree
Mom was right to insist on us eating our vegetables. She knew they built health and gave us the minerals we need.
Take Broccoli sprouts. Broccoli sprouts are rich in a compound that...
Nutrition and the fats myth.
Looking at your belly you probably might have felt that the real enemy is the fat. Nope, there are two kinds of fats, the unsaturated fats and the saturated .
It's the saturated fat that is the real enemy and that we don't want.
We do not want...
Power Nutrition Basics
What does it mean to provide your body with the right structural materials? Are you aware that your body requires sufficient amounts of these ‘right materials’ to repair and maintain existing tissues and grow new tissues? Do you understand the...
The Four Cornerstones of Nutrition
What is nutrition? We hear so many reports today on different foods containing them, but the reporters rarely provide any context in which the informaiton can be understood. To receive the benefits of good nutrition, it is important to understand...
Why should you take Nutritional Supplements?
A busy lifestyle leaves little time for planning meals and cooking. It's far too easy to fill up the diet with empty calories in fast and convenience foods. Packaged and prepared mixes make life easy, but seldom provide all the nutrients your body...
Nutritional Benefits Of Figs
Figs are well known for their mild laxative effect, so care
should be exercised when consuming fig juice. Try a small
quantity at first, prepared from two or three fresh figs. The
laxative prepared from the more concentrated, dried figs alone
is so mild that it is suitable for children, so the action of
the fresh fruit should cause you no alarm. However the term,
syrup of figs, is often used to describe "Compound Syrup of
Figs", this stronger laxative has added senna, rhubarb and
cascara extract to make it much stronger.
Fig juice is also recognized for its soothing effect on
irritated bronchia: passages. This demulcent action is soothing
to the inflamed mucous membranes that produce catarrh during a
cold. Fresh figs are a poor source
of vitamin C, but they are a
better source of vitamin B6 than most other fruits. Figs contain
110 mg of vitamin B6 per 100g.
Figs played an important part in the diet of both the ancient
Greeks and Romans. The ancient Greeks fed large quantities to
their athletes, the Spartans, in the belief that the fruit
encouraged strength and swiftness. The Roman's fed fresh figs to
their slaves, particularly the agricultural workers, but dried
figs were also widely consumed.