HOW TO SAVE YOUR SKIN FROM SUN?

WE ARE ALL TOUCHED BY THE SUN’S RAYS. THERE ARE LONG DAYS WITH EXTENDED HOURS IN THE SUN, AND IT’S ESSENTIAL THAT WE RESPECT THAT WITH THE BEAUTY AND BENEFITS OF THE SUN, THERE ARE ALSO DANGERS. LESS ATTENTION AND MONEY IS SPENT ON SUN CARE PRODUCTS LIKE SUN BLOCK AND SUN SCREEN, WHICH ARE ABSOLUTELY VITAL FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES. THIS IS A BASIC INTRODUCTION TO THE EFFECTS OF THE SUN ON OUR SKIN AND WHETHER YOU TAN FOR BEAUTY OR SPEND HOURS IN THE SUN FOR WORK, SPORT OR RECREATION, SUN CARE IS ESSENTIAL. EVEN IF YOU AVOID THE SUN AND PREFER A PALE COMPLEXION, YOU COULD STILL BE AT RISK FOR SKIN CANCER.

HERE WE DISCUSS WHY THE SUN CAN HAVE HARMFUL EFFECTS ON YOUR SKIN PRODUCING BROWN SPOTS TO CAUSING WRINKLES AND HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF WITH A SUNSCREEN OR SUN BLOCK FOR YOUR TYPE OF SKIN.

SUNBURNS

SUNBURNSGETTING BLISTERING SUNBURN SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASES OUR RISK OF DEVELOPING A SKIN CANCER. TREATING A SUNBURN QUICKLY AND WITH HEALING INGREDIENTS IS IMPORTANT TO HELP REDUCE THE DAMAGE AND TO PROTECT AGAINST, FURTHER DAMAGE LISTED BELOW ARE A VARIETY OF PHARMACEUTICAL TREATMENTS, AS WELL AS AN EASY, HOME REMEDY BOX.

HEALING SUNBURN

HEALING SUNBURNALOE VERA IS AVAILABLE IN GEL FORM OR CAN BE GROWN AT HOME. ONE OF THE ANTIOXIDANTS, VITAMIN E CAN HELP HEAL SUNBURN DAMAGE AND SHORTEN ITS EFFECTS. IT IS AVAILABLE IN CREAM, OINTMENT AND OIL FORMS. VITAMIN C IS AN ANTIOXIDANT AND INCREASING YOUR INTAKE WHILE SUNBURNED WILL HELP YOU HEAL. THE TANNINS IN COOL BLACK TEA WILL HELP SOON SUNBURN. HAVE A COOL BATH TO WHICH ½ A CUP OF BAKING SODA, HAS BEEN ADDED. CALENDULA IS ONE OF THE MOST HEALING PLANTS AND ITS OINTMENTS AND CREAMS CAN HELP SOOTHE SUNBURN.

DEFINITION OF A MOLE

THERE IS A SIMPLE RULE TO HELP DETERMINE WHETHER A MOLE IS BENIGN OR MALIGNANT. TUMOR OF CANCER IS USUALLY ASYMMETRICAL OR IRREGULAR IN SHAPE. A LINE THROUGH THE MIDDLE WOULD NOT CREATE MATCHING HALVES. COMMON MOLES ARE ROUND AND SYMMETRICAL. TUMOR USUALLY HAS UNEVEN, IRREGULAR OR BLURRED EDGES OR BORDERS. COMMON MOLES HAVE SMOOTHER, MORE EVEN BORDERS. COMMON MOLES USUALLY ARE A SINGLE SHADE OF BROWN. VARIED SHADES OF BROWN, TAN OR BLACK ARE OFTEN THE FIRST SIGN OF TUMOR. AS TUMOR PROGRESS, THE COLORS RED, WHITE AND BLUE MAY APPEAR. ANY MOLE THAT’S GREATER THAN 6MM IN DIAMETER SHOULD BE EVALUATED. MOLES THIS SIZE OR SMALLER ARE MOST LIKELY TO BE BENIGN. A MOLE THAT IS CHANGING OR INCREASING IN SIZE IS ANOTHER WARMING.

CHANGING OF A MOLE

CHANGING OF A MOLETHE MOLE SUDDENLY OR CONTINUOUSLY GETS LARGER. WIDE VARIETY OF COLORS COMBINATIONS APPEAR. COLOR MIGHT SPREAD FROM THE EDGE INTO THE SURROUNDING TISSUE. A MOLE THAT WAS FLAT OR SLIGHTLY ELEVATED INCREASES IN HEIGHT RAPIDLY. THE SKIN AROUND A MOLE BECOMES RED OR DEVELOPS COLORED SWELLINGS. A SMOOTH MOLE DEVELOPS OOZING, ULCERATION OR BLEEDING ARE SIGNS OF MORE ADVANCED DISEASE. FACING IS THE MOST COMMON EARLY SYMPTOM, AND THERE MAY ALSO BE FEELINGS OF PAIN. HOWEVER, SKIN CANCER IS USUALLY PAINLESS.

IF ANY OF THESE CHANGES OCCUR, THEY SHOULD BE CHECKED IMMEDIATELY BY A DOCTOR. IF YOU HAVE SIGNS OF SKIN CANCER IF A MOLE AREA DOESN’T LOOK NORMAL YOUR DOCTOR WILL CUT IT OUT AND LOOK AT IT UNDER THE MICROSCOPE TO SEE IF IT CONTAINS CANCER. THIS IS USUALLY DONE IN THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THIS BIOPSY IS DONE CORRECTLY. PLEASE SELECT A PHYSICIAN WHO SPECIALIZES IN SKIN CANCER AND IS TRAINED TO RECOGNIZE A TUMOR AT ITS EARLIEST STAGE. YOU WOULD FIRST SEE A SKIN DOCTOR, WHO MIGHT REFER YOU TO A DERMATOLOGICAL SURGEON OR CANCER SPECIALIST.

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BENEFITS OF RED FRUITS

THE RED FRUITS PROTECT AGAINST HEART DISEASE, PREVENT BLOOD CLOTS AND IMPROVE BLOOD CIRCULATION.

RED FRUITS ARE RICH SOURCE OF ANTIOXIDANTS WHICH PROTECT AGAINST CANCEROUS DISEASES

RED FRUITS CONTAIN LYCOPENE WHICH IS ANTIOXIDANT AND GIVES THE RED FRUITS THEIR RED COLOR

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TOP FIVE REASONS FOR GIVING UP THE COFFEE HABIT

1. COFFEE STRESSES THE ADRENALS:
COFFEE SETS OFF A CHAIN REACTION IN THE BODY THAT STRESSES THE ADRENALS. THE ACID- BASED OIL IN COFFEE IRRITATES THE LINING OF THE STOMACH AND ELEVATES GASTRIC ACIDITY. THAT TRIGGERS THE SECRETION OF ADRENALINE BY THE BODY. ADRENALINE AROUSES INSULIN EMISSION, WHICH FUELS HYPOGLYCEMIA (LOW BLOOD SUGAR). THE ULTIMATE RESULTS ARE TENSION, A MILD RISE IN BLOOD PRESSURE, A CRAVING FOR SWEETS 2 OR 3 HOURS LATER, LOW ENERGY AND A DEPRESSED MOOD.

2.COFFEE COUNTERACTS MEDICATIONS:
COFFEE COUNTERACTS DIFFERENT MEDICATIONS. WHEN OUR BLOOD SUGAR DROPS, THE BODY INCREASES THE PRODUCTION OF EPINEPHRINE—WHICH OFFSETS THE MEDICATIONS TYPICALLY PRESCRIBED FOR PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM PAIN, OBESITY, HYPERTENSION OR DEPRESSION.

3. COFFEE CAUSES NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES:
HEAVY COFFEE DRINKERS HAVE A DEFICIENCY OF THE B1 VITAMIN THIAMINE. SYMPTOMS OF B1 DEFICIENCY RANGE FROM LASSITUDE, UNEASINESS AND DISEASES TO ACHES, PAINS AND HEADACHES. IN ADDITION, REGULAR INTAKE OF COFFEE PREVENTS NUTRIENTS FROM BEING ABSORBED EFFECTIVELY IN YOUR SMALL INTESTINES, WHICH LEADS TO FURTHER VITAMIN AND MINERAL INSUFFICIENCY.

4. PESTICIDES IN COFFEE ARE TOXIC TO THE BODY:
COFFEE GROWERS OFTEN USE HARMFUL PESTICIDES WHEN GROWING THEIR BEANS, SUCH ALDRIN, DIELDRIN, CHLORDANE. SOME SCIENTISTS SPECULATE THAT COFFEE BEANS ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SOURCE OF THESE TOXINS.

5.COFFEE CONSUMPTION INCREASES TOXICITY:
LONG-TERM COFFEE CONSUMPTION  INCREASES TOXICITY IN THE BODY AND OPENING THE WAY TO DISEASE. THE FUNCTION OF THE LIVER IS TO PURIFY THE BLOOD SO THAT IT CAN CLEAN AND NURTURE THE CELLS IN OUR BODY. WHEN THE LIVER GETS BOGGED DOWN, TRYING TO PURIFY CHEMICAL DEPOSITS IN COFFEE (AND THE FOODS AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, WE BRING INTO OUR BODIES), IT BECOMES CONGESTED. AND WHEN THE LIVER IS CONGESTED, IT DOESN’T PROPERLY FILTER THE BLOOD. CONTAMINATED  BLOOD ENDS UP CIRCULATING THROUGH THE BODY, OBSTRUCT CELLS’ ABILITY TO REPRODUCE AND GROW HEALTHY TISSUE.
UNFORTUNATELY, DRINKING DECAFFEINATED COFFEE ISN’T ANY GOOD THAN DRINKING REGULAR COFFEE, BECAUSE IT CAN CONTAIN LARGE CONCENTRATIONS OF TRICHLOROETHYLENE—A CHEMICAL THAT’S ALSO USED AS A DEGREASING AGENT IN THE METAL INDUSTRY AND A SOLVENT AND DRY-CLEANING AGENT IN THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY. TRICHLOROETHYLENE IS ALSO RELATED TO VINYL CHLORIDE, A CHEMICAL IN PLASTIC THAT’S BEEN LINKED TO CERTAIN TYPES OF LIVER CANCER. IF YOU CAN’T WORK OUT THROUGH THE DAY WITHOUT THAT COFFEE TASTE, TRY HERBAL DRINKS WITH CHICORY, WHICH HAS THE FLAVOR YOU LOVE WITHOUT THE HARMFUL SIDE EFFECTS. AN EVEN WELL, MORE HEALTHFUL, OPTION IS HERBAL TEA.

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Money Can Not Buy Health

Like the fable of the free lunch, there is no such thing as free medicine. Many a person may think his medical care is to come without cost, but there is an expense. This thought points up the poignant fact that money can buy medicine but not health.

Did you ever stop to think that the real remedies to help you overcome illness and keep you well are free for the taking? They cost only a little time and effort. Like vitamins, they must be taken regularly to be of peak value.

Some antibiotics and hormones may be quite expensive, but the tonics fresh air, sunshine, and pure water are blessings that cost not a penny. Tranquilizers cost a lot nature’s great tranquilizer, exercise, costs no more than a walk around the block, bedroom calisthenics, or a swim in the surf or lake or pool.

Vitamins may come in bottles from the drugstore shelf, but they can also be found in the daily diet. For my money, kitchen-table medicine is the most fun to take. The vitamin C found in a luscious yellow grapefruit of a morning with the chill still on it and a cherry in the center is a bright wake-up vitamin dish that goes down a lot more easily than a pill. There they cost nothing, but comes as a bonus with your food.

Water too is an almost free medicine. Actually, it may be called nature’s wonder drug, for without it to circulate nutrients through your blood stream they could not do their healing job. Water is vital to life. Your body is about 70 percent water, so drink eight glasses of water each day. It is good medicine and costs little.

Fresh air is a commodity that many smog-filled cities are finding it harder and harder to come by. The oxygen that air contains is also life-giving medicine. You can live for weeks without food, days without water, but only minutes without air. How many of us get ten full breaths each day? Air comes cheap free for the talking.

Much water treatment can be given with hot fomentations to the spine, neck, and chest: hot and cold showers, and tub baths. Europeans gladly pay high resort for these luxuries at the spas, but you have such medicine as close as your bathtub almost free.

Sunshine, the vitamin-D producer that works through your skin, is also a free medicine. It takes only the time to step into a bathing suit and lie in your back yard or at the seashore or the mountains to get that healthful tanned look.

Too few skins ever see the sun, though, it is a free medicine. It will render Trojan service in clearing up skin infection and making you feel fit.

Rest is a remedy so cheap we overlook it until we become ill and have to rest 100 percent of the time. A daily rest and a good night’s sleep will do wonders to build resistance and prevent illness. Rest costs you only a nice bed, a warm water bottle, and a good book. Rest is perhaps nature’s best medicine-again, free.

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7 BASIC EVERYDAY HEALTH TIPS

“HE WHO HAS HEALTH HAS HOPE, AND HE WHO HAS HOPE HAS EVERYTHING.”

1. MOVE EXTRA: MAKE IT A DAILY CHALLENGE TO FIND WAYS TO MOVE YOUR BODY. CLIMB STAIRS IF GIVEN A CHOICE BETWEEN THAT AND ESCALATORS OR ELEVATORS. PLAY WITH YOUR KIDS; THROW BALLS WITH FRIENDS, TRIM THE LAWN. ANYTHING THAT MOVES YOUR LIMBS IS NOT ONLY A FITNESS TOOL, IT’S A STRESS BUSTER. THINK ‘MOVE’ IN SMALL INCREMENTS OF TIME. IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE AN HOUR IN THE GYM. BUT THAT’S GREAT WHEN YOU’RE UP TO IT. MEANWHILE, MOVE MORE.

2. CUT FAT: AVOID SUCH AS FRIED FOODS, BURGERS AND OTHER FATTY MEALS. DAIRY PRODUCTS SUCH AS CHEESE, COTTAGE CHEESE, MILK AND CREAM SHOULD BE EATEN IN LOW FAT VERSIONS. NUTS AND SANDWICH MEATS, MAYONNAISE, MARGARINE, BUTTER AND SAUCES SHOULD BE EATEN IN LIMITED AMOUNTS. MOST ARE AVAILABLE IN LOWER FAT VERSIONS SUCH AS SUBSTITUTE BUTTER, FAT FREE CHEESES AND MAYONNAISE.

3. GIVE UP SMOKING: SMOKING IS HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH.

4. REDUCE STRESS: EASIER SAID THAN DONE, STRESS BUSTERS COME IN MANY FORMS. SOME TECHNIQUES RECOMMENDED BY EXPERTS ARE TO THINK POSITIVE THOUGHTS. SPEND 30 MINUTES A DAY DOING SOMETHING YOU LIKE. (I.E; WALK ON THE BEACH OR IN A PARK; READ A GOOD BOOK; VISIT A FRIEND; PLAY WITH YOUR BABY; LISTEN TO SOOTHING MUSIC; WATCH A FUNNY MOVIE. GET A MASSAGE, A FACIAL OR A HAIRCUT. MEDITATE. COUNT TO TEN BEFORE LOSING YOUR TEMPER OR GETTING AGGRAVATED. AVOID DIFFICULT PEOPLE WHEN POSSIBLE.

5. PROTECT YOURSELF FROM POLLUTION: IF YOU CAN’T LIVE IN A SMOG-FREE ENVIRONMENT, AT LEAST AVOID SMOKE-FILLED ROOMS, HIGH TRAFFIC AREAS, BREATHING IN HIGHWAY FUMES AND EXERCISING NEAR BUSY THOROUGHFARES. EXERCISE INDOORS IN AIR CONDITIONING WHEN AIR QUALITY IS GOOD. IT’S A GOOD POLLUTION AND DIRT FROM THE STREET DETERRENT.

6. FLOSS YOUR TEETH: RECENT STUDIES MAKE A DIRECT CONNECTION BETWEEN LONGEVITY AND TEETH FLOSSING. NOBODY KNOWS EXACTLY WHY. PERHAPS IT’S BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO FLOSS TEND TO BE MORE HEALTH CONSCIOUS THAN PEOPLE WHO DON’T? THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: FLOSS AND BE YOUR BODY’S BOSS.

7. KEEP A OPTIMISTIC MENTAL POINT OF VIEW: THERE’S A DEFINITIVE CONNECTION BETWEEN LIVING WELL AND HEALTHFULLY AND HAVING A CHEERFUL OUTLOOK ON LIFE.

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How to Gain Weight in 7 Days

Gaining weight is synonymous with losing weight. It needs as much discipline and patience as losing weight does especially demanding a lot more if you have set your goal of gaining weight to 7 days. Although, there is a decent chance that you won’t see a brawny you the 8th morning you wake up, but notice considerable changes.

Here are a few steps, following which you will notice favourable changes by the end of the week provided you follow them with discipline.

Tips on how to Gain Weight

Include a Nutitional Diet
Include a nutritional diet plans in your weight gain regime. Indulge in food that are low in fat and high in calories and nutrition such as seeds, nuts, nut butters, starchy vegetables, low-fat dairy products, egg, beans and whole grains. Food such as burgers, cheesecake, fries, onion rings, candy bars, hot fudge sundaes etc that are packed with high amount of calories may seem tempting especially when you are trying to put on weight, but they are healthy. In fact, you might have to lose your health for the sake of gaining weight.

Exercise Regularly
Exercise for Weight Gain! There is no escaping from exercise. Do compound exercises and lift weights. Indulge in exercises such as twist curls, squats, dips, deadlifts etc.

Eat more Calories than you Expend
Every individual has a different body make-up and therefore, you will have to check what your daily calorie requirement is by finding out your current daily calorie intake. When you find out your current daily calorie intake, add 500 calories more to it and also add high calorie foods for weight gain for the next 7 days to gain weight by the end of the week.

Increase Portion Sizes
Increase portion sizes by eating more often. Do not depend entirely on breakfast, lunch and dinner. Consume a meal after every 2-3 hours to make it easier to meet the calorie needs of the body. Include protein and complex carbohydrates in your meal.

Drink Healthy Beverages
Drink beverages that have healthy calories. Avoid consuming packed fruit juices as they contain lots of sugar, which is unhealthy for the body. Consume only all-natural fruit juices. Stay away from drinks such as soda, lattes, flavoured coffee drinks, sweetened teas etc. These drinks have many calories but little nutrition and therefore, can help you in putting on excess of unhealthy fat.

Eat Healthful Smoothies
Indulge in high-calorie, but healthy smoothies for quick meals. Eat food such as yoghurt, almond butter, protein powder, nuts, fruit juices, soy milk etc. You can mix these ingredients and make a short-time meal out of it to give you calories.

Choose Dinner Wisely
Choose your dinner wisely before heading to sleep. Do not indulge in unhealthy fats especially at night.

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Food Reward Friday

This week's winner... the Starbuck's Double Chocolaty Chip Frappuccino!

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Vanilla with The Secret of Super Herbs

What is the Super Herbs that I mean on this writing article? The clue is some herbsthat mostly know by the people because can be used to kill the vampires. Other clue is the cake recipes that always available when the Halloween nightis come. Yes the answer is Garlic as the super herbs in the world with the cake recipes of Pumpkin Cake with Vanilla Garlic.

Why that I am so interest to said if Garlicas a herbs can be classified as the super herbs in the world? Well, the answer is not because Garlic can be used to kill the vampires, or also about the recipes of Pumpkin Cake with Vanilla Garlic, did you know if Garlic can supports  our body with many health benefit when we use Garlicas herbs and spices seasoning on the kitchen recipes? Yes, Garlic having many health benefit especially for the treatment of coronary heart diseases as one of the dangerous diseases in the world.      

Some recommendation that suggest by the World Health Organization (WHO) related how many dose of garlic that we should to be consumption is in a day, for adults, it is recommended to consume 2 to 5 grams of fresh garlic in each day, this dose is equivalent to the use of garlic powder in cake or kitchen recipesas much as 0.4 up to 1.2 grams or oil garlic as much as 2 to 5 milligrams.

Garlic benefitsfor the patients which having some problem related coronary heart disease, some information that I got from The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a study of two groups of individuals healthy volunteers who consumed garlic for 6 months and a group were not given garlic, garlic is significantly lowered serum cholesterol and triglycerides while raising high-density lipoprotein. Garlic is recommended as part of food diet as treatment for coronary heart patient, the reason is because garlic can reduce the damage to the arterial blood vessels which in turn reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke. Garlic is a Super Herbs! 

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6 Common Mistakes When Feeding Kids

1. Booting kids out of the kitchen. Let kids help with meal prep in the kitchen. Studies show that this helps to get kids to try new foods and eat healthier food like whole grains and vegetables.

2. Pressuring them to eat. Don’t offer rewards or demand your child eats something. Make good food available and gently and calmly encourage your kids to try it…then back off.

3. Restricting them from eating certain foods. It’s human nature to want what we can’t have. Within reason, give kids a little taste of everything so they lose the temptation or think there’s something overly special about a sugar cookie.

4. Making a big deal when you’re on a “diet.” Instead of dieting in front of your children, eat healthfully and explain that you make choices to be optimally healthy which includes only eating what you need in order to avoid gaining weight since obesity is a risk factor in countless diseases and health conditions.

5. Making veggies taste boring. Even if you’re choosing to have steamed or roasted veggies, let your kids have a little cheese or butter on top. A little won’t hurt them and you’ll feel better knowing they’re getting important vitamins and minerals because they’re actually eating their veggies.

6. Giving up and thinking you just have picky kids. Taste buds change and what they wouldn’t eat at age four, they may love at age six.  Keep gently trying and meet each refusal with calm understanding.

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6 Foods to Get You In the Mood

Turn up the heat

Want a really romantic dinner? Sure, candles and soft music are nice, but what you and your man nosh on could truly take things to another level. The following (healthy!) foods may actually affect hormone levels, brain chemistry, and energy, heightening arousal and sex drive.While there aren't double-blind studies proving the aphrodisiac properties of these foods, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence suggesting they really help, so why not work in one (or more) on your next date night.

Asparagus

You're not alone if those fleshy green spears remind you of...well, you know.This veggie's phallic appearance no doubt has something to do with its legendary aphrodisiac status, but the goods are inside, too. Asparagus is rich in vitamin B6 and folate, both of which can boost arousal and orgasm.And it also boasts vitamin E, which stimulates sex hormones in both men and women.

Avocados

Energy and a healthy libido are crucial for great sex, and avocados can give you both. They're loaded with minerals, monounsaturated fats (the good kind that protect the heart and lower cholesterol), and vitamin B6—all of which help keep your energy and sex drive up.They're also a top source of omega-3 fatty acids, which naturally boost your mood, making you more likely to feel ready for bedroom action.For more on avocados' health benefits, check out "The Amazing Power of Avocados."

Chile peppers

Chile peppers can really spice things up—and not just in your mouth—thanks to capsaicin, a chemical that's been shown to induce the release of endorphins in the brain, which creates a feeling of euphoria.The potential payoff? Enhanced foreplay and hotter sex.

Chocolate

This sweet has long been linked with love and sex for good reason. It contains tryptophan, which helps the body produce serotonin, a natural feel-good chemical that may play a role in sexual arousal.

Chocolate also offers a hit of phenylethylamine, a stimulant thought to contribute to that lovey-dovey feeling. So, go ahead, indulge a little!

Licorice

This candy (sold conveniently in, um, whips) is thought to mimic the effects of estrogen and progesterone, critical hormones for normal reproductive and sexual function and response. Eating it may help you get in the mood—and stay that way more often.Plus, enjoying this candy may reduce symptoms of PMS, a real perk both in and outside the bedroom.But note: Don't settle for just any old licorice-flavored candy. Be sure to buy a variety that contains real licorice-root extract.

Oysters

It's not the slippery feel or the singular taste of oysters that make them a sexy superfood. It's zinc, which oysters are loaded with. The mineral helps the body produce testosterone, a hormone critical in regulating women's and men's libido and sexual function.Research suggests that zinc can improve sperm count and swimming ability, and increase sexual potency in men.For women, zinc may help ovaries—the source of estrogen, progesterone, and some testosterone—stay healthy, keeping you primed for bedroom action.

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Certain Rules Before Any Kind Of Dieting

Always have a light appetizer ready before dinner (tomato juice or crudités, for example) to cut down on hunger at the table.

Order plain, pasta without cheese sauce, salad without oil dressing, steamed instead of creamed vegetables, popcorn without salt and butter when you are at the movies, baked potatoes with plain yogurt and chives instead of sour cream…. Soon you shall get into a rhythm of eating plain (even if you eat almost everything) and that makes the difference. You even get to appreciate foods in their purest form, a delight long lost in a world of sauces and salts.

Reevaluate your thinking about food. Eating is not an all-or-nothing activity, a never cross your mouth with fattening foods situation. “Thin” behavior relies on a moderate, satisfying approach: Eat everything, but only a little of everything.

Drink chamomile tea: it is natural diuretic. So are watercress and asparagus.

Remember that alcohol on hot days seem to promote bloat-so say my two martini drinking friends. I do not drink, so I do not have this problem.

Cut down on the stuff that goes on food. Salt is a killer and causes water retention. Try using lemon instead of salt, toasted sesame seeds instead of sauce, drill instead of mayonnaise. Sauté with wine or unsalted soy sauce instead of oil or butter

Keep staples in the house for on the-run snacks and meals (you tend to eat oatmeal cookies because they are there): Foods such as tuna packed in water, fresh fruit, low-fat yogurt, and low-fat cottage cheese are fast, grab able, and relatively un-fattening. See? Are you getting into the habit of attitude dieting? Measuring or weighing foods is not natural. Besides, you know what’s too much to eat. Twelve chicken things are too many.

Do away with excesses: A bagel, for example, can be sliced by your grocer into six bagel thins. One is very satisfying when you crave filler with a cup of coffee, and that way, it takes three days to eat a whole bagel.

Worst Bets:

When you want to look your thinnest, avoid foods that produce gas, which puffs up your belly. Among such foods are cabbage, notorious beans, cauliflower, broccoli, and carbonated drinks.

Why would anyone want to drink coke (which contains five teaspoons of sugar per can) when she could drink Tab with lemon (containing no sugar)? However, do not overload on diet drinks. I always feel that if I cannot pronounce what is on the label. I should drink very little of it.

Do Not Shop When You Are Starving. Only Shop After You Are Full:

Emotional crises do not get better when you are eating éclairs. The lover does not come back, the boss does not relent about the no-raise decree, and the cold does not get cured when you stuff your face. Better to buy some new makeup for a lift.

Peanuts and potato chips at bars, hors d’oeuvres at parties, will do you in every time. They really ought to be outlawed.

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How to Get Health Insurance With No Money

If you have no money, then getting health insurance may seem like an unobtainable dream. However, with doctors' visits alone frequently costing several hundred dollars, health insurance is a necessity if you want to stay healthy and not fall deeply into debt when you hit a health crisis. If you really can't afford health insurance programs, there are many health insurance options for low-income individuals. Knowing where to find these programs may involve a little detective work.

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Remove Diabetes from 3 Steps

1. Check what you eat everyday and make sure that the food is devoid of sugar. Avoid all flour-based foods and reduce your carbohydrate intake to a very possible minimum. If you need carbohydrate, focus on complex carbohydrate and refrain taking simple carbohydrates.

2. Have a regular exercise to boost your body system. Whether it is swimming, cycling, aerobic dancing or just brisk walking for 30 minutes, as long as you exercise, your body will be more receptive to insulin thus enabling good blood sugar level control.

3. Take supplements to compensate for body stress due to free radicals bombardment. Start with a multi vitamins and minerals tablet. In addition take omega 3 1000 mg twice daily, and evening primrose 1000 mg twice daily. Folic acid 15 mg daily. These are the secret weapons to optimum body maintenance that can add more years to your life.

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Health Benefit of Coriander use

Coriander, other spices collection in Indonesia that again having many use benefit not only as seasoning spices but also for the human health. Coriander, maybe until today if we only knew about the use of Coriander as herbs and spices ingredients on the kitchen recipes, where coriander is used commonly in a variety of recipes made ​​from red meat such as beef, mutton and lamb. Even coriander available in Indonesia, but did you know if coriander was come from the Southern Europe and around the Caspian Sea.

How coriander having health benefit use for human body? Same as with cinnamon as old spicesin the world, some people believe the benefits of coriander as an anti-diabetic, nothing is due coriander beneficial for lowering blood sugar levels and lower cholesterol levels than that.

Some good information from the website of healthiertalk.com, some experiment about the use of coriander extract to mouse which having a problem related with obesity, coriander extract that made from coriander seed is effective can lower the cholesterol. It is the reason of why that use coriander as our seasoning spices in the kitchen recipes is highly recommended. Coriander is able to use both in whole seeds and coriander powder.

Base on the research, cooking with coriander having a lot of c vitamin, dietary fiber, iron and calcium are needed by the human body. Coriander can be used also as a natural meat preservative due to its function as an antiseptic that can kill bacteria in meat.

Other health benefits of corianderto treat high blood pressure includes the recipes, just wash a handful of coriander seeds before then boiled it with three glasses of water. Let the water continue to boil until the remaining approximately one cup of corianderwater, stew, strain the decoction of coriander were then taken after warm. Perform routine every single week for this recipe on three weeks in which this recipe is one way to treat high blood pressure. 

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How Curcumin can prevent of Heart Attack?

Did the reader know what kind of the most deadly diseases in the world? Coronary heart disease is one of them which was considered as the most deadly diseases in the world, a disease that can be affecting the heart and blood vessel system in which could happen anytime and to anyone, a diseasethat occurs more because of lifestyle and a less healthy diet food, although in some cases, people who have a problem with coronary heart diseaseis also caused by genetic factors. Coronary heart disease is the most deadly diseases in the U.S.and has feared.

Can you believe if Curcumin as seasoning spices able to prevent heart attack and useful in coronary heart treatment? How Curcumin can prevent of Heart Attack? I am also just knows if since a long time ago where traditional Chinese medicine has used curcuminas herb spices to prevent the risk of heart attacks for humans, such as the journal research which published by the Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou 221002, China.

The recent research of health benefits for Curcumin used to prevent coronary heart disease is publish by the scientist with the name is Wanwarang Wongcharoen from the University of Chiang Mai, Thailand, in his research journals have also published by the American Journal of Cardiology, in Curcumin contains a lot of antioxidantand anti-inflammatory to prevent the occurrence of heart damage in coronary patients.

A cardiologist from the University of Arkansas named Jawahar Mehta as I got the information from the website of health.kompas.com, Curcumin has been known in Chinese medicine since a long time ago to reduce inflammation and reduce oxygen toxicity or damage be caused by free radicals through several studies. Sourced from the website of merdeka.com, the researchers also explained that the antioxidant and anti-inflammatoryas curcuminoids in curcumin as cardioprotective effect that would protects the heart, not only that, even a team of researchers at Columbia University also found where curcumincan play an important role in preventing type 2 of diabetes.

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Is it Curcumin able to fight cancer?

Curcumin, other herb and spices crops variety that produce in Indonesia as the heaven of spices island, Curcuminwhich not just used as kitchen seasoningand natural coloring agent in food recipes, many research journal has show about Curcumin which have many health benefit also for the human body. As the researchers progress news in the world, where today they are do some research about the health benefits of curcumin in cancer treatment. Is it Curcumin able to fight cancer?

 

Some information that I got from the site news of Tempo in our country, a woman with breast cancer who living in the UK, name is Vicky Sewart, medicine report has declare if she fully recovered from her cancer diseases after she routine in consume curcumin and strict with food diet. Now the scientist in the UK has interested in study more about curcumin that consume by Vicky especially for the research of curcumin extract as medicine in cancer treatment.

Other information that I got from the site news of solopos.com, a research study by Dr. Marilene Wang, a researcher at UCLA Johnsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, where the results of the research about curcuminhas published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research which published by the Cancer Research Association in the US, curcumin has the ability to suppress cell signaling pathway that drives the growth of cell cancer in the head and neck. Eating raw curcumin will directly reduce cytokine levels of cytokines which could potentially spread cancer in human body.

Interested in planting curcumin? Well, planting curcuminis will be useful to provide the natural pharmacy and medicine in your garden. Planting curcumin also is include one type of profitable agribusiness plantation choose especially on the tropical climate country such as we in Indonesia, pharmacy and medicinal industryis one of many markets who need curcumin as a herb and spice plants. Curcumin also available on the market today not only sell as raw spices, there is what called by curcumin powder and curcumin syrup.    

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It is about Cardamom in Indonesia

Cardamom, the other name for this aromatic spice in Indonesiais Kapulaga as the healthy spices. It is because the benefit of Cardamom which not only can be used as spices seasoning, Cardamom in Indonesiaalso provides health benefits for the human body. Many Indonesia people is believe when they mix Cardamom with other spices such as Ginger, Cloves and honey as a spices drink, this drink will be have health benefit for aphrodisiac. 

Indonesia is a country of Cardamom producer in the world. Cardamom in Indonesiais divided into two kinds of variety, first there is called green cardamom, then the second was called brown cardamom. The United Sates and Australia is a country destination for the export of Indonesia Cardamom. In the United States, Cardamom such as Vanilla Bean is used as a flavor for the ice cream, not only for ice cream flavor, Cardamom also needed as the spice ingredients in soft drinks.

Cardamom as a spiceis very rich for the content of essential oils, protein, sugar, fat and many more. That’s the reason of why Cardamom is having health benefit as the used in treatment diseases, drink Cardamom spices recipes above in a routine will help also for the prevention of bone loss.

How about use Cardamomwith vanilla bean? I believe that you have been familiar with the recipe of Cardamom Vanilla Cupcakes or such as the recipe of Cardamom Christmas Cookies with the vanilla extract. Such as what I am said above, Indonesia has known as the country of Cardamom producer in the world with the source of Cardamom supply mostly come from the province that I am staying today, West Java, Indonesia with the local name is Kapolaga. Cardamom supply production in West Java province as the information that I got from the local Agricultural department on the year of 2012 is able to reach up to more than 35 tons. 

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Vanilla Beautiful Craft

Past months ago, together with my wife that I try to make a craft by use the materials of vanilla bean, although the result was not so good because I was not craft artisan but only as vanilla beanfarmers, I try to get some comment from one of the owners of famous vanilla bean company in the United States. The information is the unique craft with vanilla bean material already widely known in the world and many vanilla bean farmers also try to make this craftwith various design such as flower design, shopping basket and others.

There is still enough time before Christmas day will come for the reader whose interested to make own craftby use vanilla bean as the material. Include in make this vanilla bean craftas a special gift craft on Valentine's Day. Flexibility of vanilla bean as raw material spices is needed, and not use the vanilla bean which easily broken like most. Vanilla bean that is used should a length that will make easy to start making the craft design with vanilla bean spices.

At present now I am thinking something, since vanilla bean used as a flavoring spices and aroma on the food and beverage industry, including the hospitality industry which also needs vanilla bean on their chef kitchen recipes. Surely it would be something beautiful to look as art or room decoration when vanilla bean craft will be available at every star hotel room in the world that can be more improve the welfare of vanilla bean farmers. What is Craft actually? Source from Wikipedia, a craft is a profession that requires many skill of work, mostly it do by the people in small scale production because of unique designand material. The traditional terms craftsman and craftswoman are now adays often replaced by artisan and rarely by crafts person (craftspeople).  

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Herbs and Spices Online Store

As my hope for the written below will be useful for all of you who have interested to be involves on Herbs and Spices business by build your own online store as the marketing method. I am sure for you especially living in Europe and the United States that have knowing if your country is the biggest herbs and spices buyer in the world.

For the example is the demand on fresh vanilla beans, almost 50% of world demand for fresh vanilla beanshas supply to the US vanilla market. The global demand for pure vanilla beans is estimated around 2,500 to 3,000 tons per year. In Europe, Franceand Germany is the important buyer of vanilla beans around 300 to 400 tons in a year.         

Another interesting condition for the reason of you if maybe want to be involves in Spices business by build your own online store is the United States and Europe country as the biggest internet users in the world also after China. I am talking about the trend of online shopping. Since the internet users become bigger in the world, it is market opportunities to sell herbs and spices with ecommerce solutions for the people to buy something only with online shopping. I hope my tip below will be helpful for you in start the spices business before you build your own online store.      

Don’t think to sell herbs and spices in a bulk quantity since many preparation to be needed and many risk can be happen for us as the beginner in this business, build your own online store is good idea to sell the herbs and spicesas gourmet spices product with the niche market segmentation. Having a big dream is good but keeps realistic since the market need growth up and the loyal customer to be maintenance in the process where herbs and spicesable to give you for the routine incomesince it primary commodity.  

Many traderhas more involve in herbs and spicesbusiness than buyer and supplier, so make it sure that you get a good contact supplier that able to support you with a good prices and good quality product for your internet store, fair prices for fair product. It would be more betters when you able to get direct contact to the spices producer even it will be difficult since many spices producers in a country such as we in Indonesia not having good internet knowledge, unless you come directly to the country and hunt.

Make it sure what kind of herbs and spices that you want to sell on your internet store. It would be better do a little research before about what type of herbs and spices as the favorite ingredients needs by the people in your country. In the United Statesand almost Europecountry, vanilla bean, cinnamon, cardamom and star aniseare the favorites ingredients since this herbs and spices are always on the kitchen properties. Last, since the focus of your internet store to the niche market segmentation and gourmet spices,        make it as unique packaging as gourmet spices product. You can click more information about the tip on,    

How to start your spices business and build your own online store

http://www.shvoong.com/business-management/business-ideas-and-opportunities/2336943-start-spices-online-store/

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Bandrek Vanilla Milk Recipe

Christmas is snow, since the presence of winter on Christmasis the perfect time for us to look back on the properties of spice cupboard, why not to try kind of spiced hot drink recipes that it can warm up your body! Vanilla bean spice can be selected as key ingredients that can be warm up your body as vanilla milk recipe with other spices ingredients as addition to your vanilla milk.

Some types of herbs and spices that can be used as warm drink recipes together with vanilla milk recipe is include, cinnamon, civet coffee, ginger and chocolate which since a long time ago related with vanilla bean has used by the Aztec people in Mexico as a spice ingredient recipes for spiced hot drink.

Not just only to warm up your body but also many health benefits for vanilla milk recipe together with spiced hot drink, such as we who living in Indonesia, other traditional drinks recipes to warm up your body in our country where known by the name of Bandrek. The spices ingredients include for Bandrek is ginger, cinnamon and pepper in the kitchen where we try to serve it with vanilla milk. Not only warm up your body but also healthy. We do not use vanilla extract in this recipe, but the pure vanilla bean that we use since we want to make a drink recipes look so beauty with the rich of vanilla seeds. 

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Vanilla Moscow Mule

What is Moscow Mule? My interested to learn more about Moscow Mule since I found some article on the internet site related with vanilla vodka and Moscow Mule. Is Moscow Mule a drink recipe? What the history of Moscow Mule and why there is vanilla vodka on Moscow Mule? Finally I found the answer if Moscow Mule is cocktail drink recipes which use vanilla vodka, ginger beer and lime as the ingredients.

Souce from the website of ifood.tv, the history of Moscow Mule as cocktail drink began since Vodka trend was start in the United States around the year of 1940. Moscow Mule is a cocktaildrink with Vodka and very popular during both summer and winter seasons. The warm ginger beer make Moscow Mule is very perfect drink on winter seasons, on the other side where Lime is refreshing summer drink.

Then what is a ginger beer in Moscow Mule since Indonesia as my country also ginger producer in the world? A ginger beer actually is a carbonated drink that is flavored primarily with gingerand sweetened with sugar or other artificial sweeteners. Ginger beer is not alcoholic drinksince the recipe of ginger beerwhich originated in Englandin the mid 18th century just content ginger, sugar, water, lemon juice and a fungal-bacteria symbiote.

As my hope it can be good information for all expat that living in Jakartatoday, or maybe for the reader  who have a plan to visit Indonesia, if there is some drink recipealso as traditional drink recipe of Betawi (Jakarta Origin People) that maybe will close like a ginger beer as the ingredients of Moscow Mule, the name is Bir Pletok. What the recipe of Bir Pletok? Why this ginger beer having the name as Bir Pletok?

Source from the website of thejakartaglobe.com, not all beers are bad for your health, Bir Pletok is a traditional Betawi drink which made from herbs and spices, The herbs and spices ingredients that content for Bir Pletok is only Red Ginger, Lemonggrass, pandan leaves, white sugar, black pepper, cinnamon and secang wood. Bir Pletok is the rich of herbsand spices drink of Betawi, Jakarta, Indonesia. Why people are giving the name for this herbs drink as Bir Pletok? Bir is come from the Western words, Beer, and Pletok was come from the sound of drink in making process when makes by shaking all herbs and spices ingredientstogether in a bamboo shoot.     

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Food Reward Friday

This week's winner: poutine!

While not as appetizing looking as the Monster Thickburger, poutine is probably more popular. For those who aren't familiar, poutine is a large plate of French fries, topped with gravy and cheese curds. It originated in Quebec, but has become popular throughout Canada and in the Northern US.

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Jackfruit Vanilla Milkshake

Other use benefits of vanilla healthy recipes blend with Jackfruit as the recipes of Jackfruit Vanilla Milkshake. The ingredients needed is very easy to prepare since we just only to have vanilla extract or it can be also use vanilla syrup, vanilla ice cream, jackfruit as a tropical fruit offcourse, then last ingredients is goat milk would be better than cow milk since goat milk is rich in vitamin and nutrion. We do not need to use sugar when we decide to use vanilla syrup for the milkshake recipes and not vanilla extract. 

Did you know if Jackfruit Vanilla Milkshake is favorit milkshake drink in almost Viatnamese Restaurants? Such we in Indonesia, Vietnam also knew as the producer of Jackfruit in the world beside Malaysia, Thailandand India as the country origin of Jackfruit. Sinh To Mit is the name for Viatnamese Jackfruit Smoothie.

As we know about health benefit of vanilla pod for cancer theraphy including goat milk, so with Jackfruit with the content of Phytonutrients. What Phytonutrients actually is? And what health benefit of Phytonutrients for the human body? Source from the website of WHFoods.org, Phytonurients which known also as Phytochemicals are the compounds in the plant which have the function to protect the plant especially from ultraviolet radition. So when the fruit or plant that content Phytonurients is consume for human body such as Jackfruit, according to the research where Phytonurients will giving many benefits especially for promoting many health properties on Jackfruit including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and liver-health-promoting activities.

Looking for Jackfruit plantation tour around the world? Poor for Indonesiaif Jackfruit in our country still not set as plantation, but it will be different condition when you looking for Jackfruit plantation tour in other Jackfruit producer country such as India, Brazil, Thailand, Vietnamand Malaysia. You can enjoy the participant of Jackfruit plantation tour which has set as Food and Vegetable Tour as Tourism Sectorin that ountry, but for vanilla plantation tour, as my recommended to visit Indonesiawhich has familiar as Java Vanilla Bean.

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The Unique Blend of Durian and Vanilla

Last that I was visit Durian plantation in Kuningan, West Java which have by my father in law, suddenly I was thinking about what can be happen when we blend between Durian and Vanilla Pod? Some good link article information from the website of incrediblesmoothies.com with the title of Durian Smoothie Recipes and Nutrition which writen by Tracy Russel, Durian is good tropical fruit that will great to be blended with all of spices ingredientssuch as vanilla pod, clove, ginger, cinnamon and also nutmeg. Durian is tropical fruitthat having good in nutrition contentalso calories with 13 grams of healthy fat and 357 calories.     

How about blended Durian with Cacao? Tracy Russel said Cacaois wonderful companion to Durian but it will make a high fat smoothie when we blend it together. Her advice is to add a dash of cayenne pepper in Cacao Durian Smoothie for a chocolatesmoothie kick. Not only good in nutrition content also calories, Durian contains about B and C Vitamin as well as minerals such as copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium and zinc. Looking for Durian Vanilla Smoothie Recipes? Well, I find it on the website of raw-pleasure.com.au, the ingredients needs are vanilla pod, durian, flesh of young coconut and water of young coconut. Other interesting recipes about Durian and Vanilla Pod blend, how about Vanilla Durian Custard for your recipes such as you can get the information on the web of alivefoods.com.           

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Thai Tea Infusion with Vanilla Pod

Infuse Vanilla Pod with Gourmet Tea? Well, since vanilla pod on the history can be infusion with Chocolates by Aztec people in Mexico, so I think is why not about Vanilla Pod infuse with Gourmet Tea. Vanilla Pod is luxury spices ingredientwith will be keep works well when we infuse it with another spices or herbs products including with Gourmet Tea.

Both in Vanilla Pod and Ground Vanilla Powder, there is many health benefit of Vanilla infuse with Gourmet Tea actually, for the example base on some research journal, Vanilla infuse gourmet Tea can be reducing stress with the aroma, vanilla infuse gourmet tea can be help in reducing weight body and etc. Many interesting and useful products which sales and available on the online shoptoday related with Vanilla infuse Gourmet Tea, the most important thing is to check before and make it sure when we want to buy for the gourmet teawith the natural sweet and aroma of real vanilla beans.

Vanilla Pods infuse with Thai Tea, what is Thai Tea? Base on Wikipedia, Thai Tea which has familiar also by Thai Iced Tea or Cha-yen is the most popular gourmet tea flavor in Thailand especially Southeast Asia including America. The ingredients in Thai tea mostly vary from maker to maker but Thai Teabase is usually made from cut black tea leaves grown primarily in Asia. Base on Foodnetwork.com, Thai Tea mix can be blended and infusion with other spices ingredients such as Star Anise, Cinnamon and Vanilla Pod off course. The steeped gourmet tea then is flavored with sugar and after being cooled, Thai Tea mix with cream and often condensed milk for a refreshing creamy drink. In conclusion, Thai Tea mix is a blend of black tea included other spices ingredients such as vanilla and sugar where Thai Tea mix sweetened which condensed milk and evaporated milk.

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The Aphrodisiac Secret of Dondurma

When somebody asking you about what is the most favorite dessert that most people in the world also famililiar with it? The answer can be many but if we talk about Ice Cream that I believe where most of people will know it. Ice Cream, everybody know it as frozen dessert which usually made from dairy product such as milk and can be combine with other ingredients to get more rich in flavor.

Yes, Ice Cream can be makes by rich in flavor and almost every country in the world mostly having unique recipes about Ice Cream made. Such as we in Indonesia, there is unique recipes for the old and traditional ice cream in our country called Es Puter, its Indonesia Traditional Ice Cream with rich of Coconut. How about Traditional Ice Cream recipes in other country? Have you been know about Dondurma as Traditional Ice Cream from Turkey? Well, my interested to Dondurma as Turkish Traditional Ice Cream was start when I just do some search information about Mohair Wool industry in Turkey.

What special about Dondurma Ice Cream? Same as like other ice cream ingredientsin the world, Dondurma makes by goat milk, but something special has add to this ice cream which make Dondurma Ice Cream is different with other ice cream in the world. Not only Goat Milk, Dondurma makes with two special ingredients called mastic and salep which source from root wild orchid that only available in Turkey. Same as Vanilla Beans which source from the vanilla orchid plants as the most favorite ice cream flavor in the world especially in the US, Dondurma Orchid Ice Cream has familiar as Aphrodisiac Ice Cream in the world.  Yes, root wild orchid with only available in Turkeyis Aphrodisiac Secret of Dondurma Turkish Ice Cream. Can we found Dondurma Ice Cream outside Turkey? It can be possible with the control of Turkey Government for the export of root wild orchid as Dondurma ingredients. 

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Tooth Pain Treatment from the Kitchen

Do you believe if spices in our kitchen can be our dentist? At least we can use it when we need first treatment at home before we go to the dentist. Source from the website of emedicinehealth.com, most Tooth pain case or toothache is happen because of some problem with our root of tooth has irritated, tooth got infection, decay, injury or loss of a tooth. Pain may also occur after an extraction. Use spices in our kitchen as our dentist for the toothache? Vanilla Beansits one of them.

Not only having health benefit for healthy bones and healthy teeth because of rich in calcium, vanilla beans that use in extract is having benefit also as tooth pain treatment. Vanilla Extract is a liquid composed of the extract vanilla beans with alcohol solution or can be also use other substitute solution such as vegetable glycerin. When the toothacheis happen, just apply 3 until 4 drops of vanilla extract on the cotton swab and hold directly against the affect tooth in several of minutes. Looking for other spices as home remedies which possible available in our kitchen, click this interest web below.

Tootache Home Remedies

http://www.1dental.com/articles/dental/toothache-home-remedies/    

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Growing Vanilla Gold at Home

As the next expensive spices after Saffron, most of people call Vanilla as Green Gold. Growing vanilla beans is not easy, when you make decision to planting vanilla beans as Green Gold, not only need skill and knowledge to become vanilla farmer, patient also needed since we must cultivate vanilla such as a baby on the first year of plant growingages. But how about growing Vanilla plant at home as a hobbies? Vanillais an orchid plant, you able to growing this plant also at home by use pot container on your garden such as the picture below,

The material that you must to prepare in growing vanilla orchidsas Green Gold at home on your garden is, one vanilla orchid vines with must be source from the healthy vanilla plant without diseases, good soil fertility and high in nutrition which supported by sheep compost, cocopeat and last is pot container. Vanilla grows as a vine with climbing, therefore you must to prepare also steady frame for vanilla vines to grow and climbing which put insude the pot container. Avoid to places the pot container on the area gardenwith direct of the sun since vanilla orchid only a little of the sunlight.    

When your vanilla plant will get flowering? On the second half year of plant growing ages which normally on spring where hopes that your vanilla garden plant will get first flower. Yes, most Vanilla Flowering occurs every spring, and without pollination, so the flower will be falls and no green gold can be produce to be curing as vanilla beans from your home vanilla garden. Each vanilla flower must be hand pollinated within 12 hours of opening. On the origin forest wilds of vanilla plant in Mexico, very few natural pollinators exist, with most pollination being carried out by bees with the name Melipona. These pollinators do not exist outside the orchid's origin, and even within that range of origin, vanilla orchids have only a 1% chance of successful pollination with those bees. Therefore, all vanilla grown today is pollinated by hand. 

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