Mama’s Home Remedies

Our post “Dark Green Leafy Vegetables Can Prevent Cancer” got replies from 90 blogs that asked for permission to reprint it. Due to your interest in this topic, I start series of articles/posts about several of these green superfoods and how you can use them in your healthy cooking.

Whatever the season, there are always so many options when it comes to greens. Especially now, in summer, we have spinach, kale, cauliflowers, broccoli, Brussels sprouts that are all members of the cabbage family, and like the cabbage itself are proven to be the most nutritious of all vegetables.

 Let’s start with spinach, a healthy vegetable. Wheather eaten raw or cooked, it  is full of vitamins and minerals. Spinach with its green and lively leaves is

• an excellent source of vitamin C if eaten raw;
• full of vitamins A and B;
• provides calcium, potassium, and iron.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

As an amazingly versatile vegetable, spinach is popular worldwide with nearly every cuisine around the globe. The Italians make hundreds of dishes using spinach. If you see in any restaurant’s menu the words a la florentine, it means the dish contains spinach. The Italians created a huge range of recipes mixing spinach with with their favorite  ricotta or Parmesan cheese. The French invented delicious quiche with spinach.

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Where are you always  hurrying? Today your weekend starts. Enjoy it. Just stop for a minute and take a deep breath.  Then forget about time, listen to this relaxing and soothing music, and watch  the  Nature in all her beauty. It’ll help you to get rid of stress accumilated during your working week.

 Simple and aromatic chamomile is one of my favorite wild flowers. Often a bunch of these small flowers adore a crystal vase in my kitchen.  I love to smell their delicate scent that I feel blends perfectly with my body chemistry. 

I also make every other day a chamomile tea to drink in the evening or chamomile infusion to pour it into my bathtub. Chamonile bath helps to open the pores clogged by” the air dust” surrounding us during daily time. It is such a pleasure to take chamomile bath before you go to bed that will  clean your skin from impurities and will rejuvenate a Whole You. 

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GMO corn, canola oils and other genetically modified foods are created in laboratory by modern chemists.  These artificial products rob us of our health and should be excluded from your vocabulary, as well as from from your  grocery shopping List. But how you will know what is a GMO product and what is not, if  this valuable information is not included into the labels of food products produced here, in the U.S.A.?

In other countries around the world is a different story. There is mandatory to write on the labels and  inform consumers that a  product is genetically modified. Consumers have a choice to choose. By other words, they can go after cheaper prices or their well-being.  Before you’ll watch this video, look at the previous post ” Organic or Conventional?”Part 1 published on July 19th and watch video included there. Than take a minute and get familiar with GMO and non-GMO foods in today’s video. After that you’ll be a much, much smarter healthy foods shopper!

Submitted by Svetlana Konnikova.

Do you or your children eat every morning a fast and convenient breakfast: cereal with milk? If you do, don’t, especially Froot Loops and Corn Pops. I don’t eat Kellog cereals and don’t offer them to my children because these products always looked suspicious to me. Too good to be true. First of all, they contain too much sugar that transforms into fat in our body. What “Froot” means, fruit? Really? Maybe it means artificial additives and colors. Corn Pops?! Sounds marvelous, but what if they made from GMO corn? So, in my family we eat organic whole grains, instead. And are very happy with that. Besides, we buy them in bulk because the best grains can be packaged in boxes that  can be really harmful to our health. 

See what happened with Kellogg’s packaged cereals? Last month about 28 million boxes of Kellogg cereal, including Froot Loops and Corn Pops were recalled at once from the market. These “great products” contain a petrochemical that caused the foul smell and sickened a handful of people. This fact was reported by non-profit organization, Environmental Working Group.

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What do you think is better some conventional foods or organic that cost much, much more? Today any producer can write on his label “Organic” even if his product contains only 70 % of organic ingredients. So, what should we eat, organic or conventional foods to keep us healthy? This is the question…

‘Certified Organic’ is a different story. ‘Certified Organic’ product’s price is much higher than just ‘organic.’ But at least, we have some assurance that manufacturer conducts serious and responsible business. That gives us, consumers, a piece of mind. We need this piece of mind because we are all worried about our health. What is good in being sick? We try to avoid any possible chemicals in our food we eat every day. We read lots of articles. These articles very often oppose each other. It depends who sponsored it and what interests are represented.

There is so much information flying at us at the breakneck speed. Tons of this info creates confusion, and can really mislead and send us in a wrong direction. So, now watch this video and find out what is the difference between organic and conventional food, and make your conclusion. Knowledge is power, isn’t it?!

I hope you had today a healthy lunch like green salad, a sandwich with grilled vegetables and freshly squeezed vegetable juice or cold green tea with lemon and honey. Every day new and innovative organic food cafes and restaurants open their doors to offer you just that. If you had a typical American lunch (real food!?), like hamburger, French fries and soda, do you realize that you voluntarilly put in your body the worst processed foods that can make you sick or gain weight?

Today many of us want to eat in a healthy way and be well. We try to avoid processed foods and include in our daily diet more fresh vegetables, fruits and natural beverages. But sometimes we don’t deliver our promises to ourselves and find all possible excuses to go just one time for “real food” like hamburgers and sugary sodas. We see also very strange things happen with people who by their profession must be examples of healthy lifestyle and know more than others about nutrition and proper diet… I am talking about medical professionals.

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Believe or not, but this respectful organization, American Association for Cancer Research, admitted that it was a mistake to promote soy products, as cancer saviors. However, FDA approved soybeams for human consumption. Now watch this video and you’ll see how careful you should be about including soy, soybeans, and soy oil in your daily diet.

Happy 4th of July! Did you eat hot dogs today according to a well established tradition? Take a minute from your holiday table and watch this very interesting video. You’ll see what is wrong with our diet, nutrition, food we eat, especially during holiday, and what makes so many people in America fat. Excuses and exceptions are not accepted, even for today…

Submitted ny Svetlana Konnikova

Is is really your Soy Dream? If you will review food products on the shelves of the supermarkets, including health food stores, you’ll see hundreds of food products containing soybeans or soy extract. Thanks to the skillful manupulations of PR industry, soy became a magic ingredient in 50-70% of our food products from tofu and burgers, baby formula and tacos. Soy trend swept the nation as an expertly crafted recommendation to use it as a source of protein, an easy way to help you build strong bones, to lower risk of osteoporosis, to reduce hot flashes, to prevent some types of cancer, and other nutritional ‘goodies’ and promises that soybeans are all natural and good for you.

Today millions of health-conscious people believe in the benefits of soyfoods as a newest panacea for better health and prevention of numerous diseases. In reality, soybeans, soy extract or soybean oil maybe add some taste to our foods. Maybe not, it depends what you like. However, you don’t have too much of a choice. Today this realtively cheap ingredient is included in the hundreds and hundreds of different food products. This little trick helps food manufacturers to bring down the cost of their products and increase their profits tenfold at the price of consumers health and money.

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