I don’t think there’s any question to my readers that I am a big fan of herbs and spices in cooking. From my article on The Health Benefits of Herbs and Spices to the second bullet on my previous post of Four Ways To Add Some Excitement To Your Diet, I’ve made it well-known [...]
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With all this talk about cooking being easy and spicing up a bland diet, I thought I’d run down a list of items that I make sure I always have on hand. These ten items ensure that I can throw something together in a hurry if need be or I can put together something [...]
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So in our discussion of the blood pressure benefits of garlic a few days ago, the lead author of UAB’s study, Dr. David Kraus, stopped by and left a bit of a clarification in the comments. Since I doubt most people take the time to read the comments, I want to bring his clarification [...]
Yesterday, onions; today, garlic. The allium family is bringing us all kinds of goodness this week.
It looks like eating the equivalent of two cloves of garlic lowers blood pressure by boosting hydrogen sulfide. Unfortunately they only say “fresh garlic”, not whether it was raw or cooked garlic, which does matter for other substances [...]
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