According to the Institute for Integrative Medicine at the University of Witten in Germany, sauerkraut is one of the most common and oldest forms of preserving cabbage and can be traced back as an important food source to the fourth century B.C.

The Secret to Sauerkraut’s Health Benefits: Fermentation
What is it that’s so special about fermented vegetables and foods? Fermentation simply refers to an ancient technique and perseveration method that naturally alters the chemistry of foods. Similar to cultured dairy products like yogurt and kefir, sauerkraut’s fermentation process produces beneficial probiotics that are now linked to improvements in immune, cognitive, digestive and endocrine function.

People have been using fermentation to preserve valuable vegetables and other perishable foods for long periods without the use of modern-day refrigerators, freezers or canning machines. Fermentation is the metabolic process of converting carbohydrates, like sugars, into either alcohols and carbon dioxide, or organic acids. It requires the presence of a carbohydrate source (like milk or vegetables, which contain sugar molecules) plus yeast, bacteria or both.

The yeast and bacteria microorganisms are responsible for converting glucose (sugar) into healthy bacteria strains that populate your gut environment and help regulate many bodily functions.

​Raw or Cooked?
Sometimes the nutrition world feels like a land of controversy.
I bet you know what I mean, and often find yourself wondering just who or what to pay attention to.
There are hundreds of “nutrition experts” (all with conflicting advice), new books each week offering the best diet ever, and friends or family claiming they’ve found the holy grail (and you should try it too).

​To strengthen your body's ability to fight cancer, you need to eat a ton of raw foods. Here's what I ate twice a day every day:

​The biggest baddest healthiest salad on the planet!

It consists of raw organic vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts and homemade dressing.
This salad is super healthy, delicious and will fill you up without zapping your energy.
I ate this salad every day, sometimes twice a day, during the first few years of my chemo-free cancer battle.

​A Word Of Caution
While bee pollen has various beneficial effects, it’s best to avoid it if you’re pregnant or breastfeeding. It can also cause severe allergic reactions if you’re allergic to pollen. And it might increase the effects of certain medications (for instance, certain blood thinners) too. In fact, it’s best to check with your doctor before taking bee pollen if you’re on any medication.

Turmeric Has Over 150 Potentially Therapeutic Activities

​It's difficult to describe turmeric in brief simply because it has so many beneficial properties. That's why the "spice of life," as it's known in India, sums it up wonderfully.
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Traditional medicinal uses in both traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as well as Ayurvedic medicine include the treatment of liver disease, skin problems, respiratory and gastrointestinal ailments, sprained muscles, joint pains, and general wound healing.

  
This Is What Happens To Your Body When You Drink Coconut WaterYou have probably heard about coconut oil and the plenty benefits it offers. Here you will learn about the greatest benefits of the coconut water consumption, of which you probably never heard.

You probably never knew that the coconut water has virtually compatible structure with the blood plasma in the human bloodstream. Thus, the coconut water was used in the war conflicts, where it saved number of lives as a substitute for blood. The coconut water was given to many injured people during the long and exhausting battles.

 

​Many of our Jamaican food and fruit crops have been found to be of a very high nutritional value, surely a reason why we produce the best in the world in so many different fields.
Our athletes superiority has been attributed to Yam by some experts.

Our Jamaican food and our Jamaican diet has been thought of as being full of fat and starch ... and therefore unhealthy. But many of these supposedly "fatty foods" such as Coconut, Avocado, and our Jamaican national fruit, the Ackee, are of plant origin.