Tag: superfood
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5 foods that help balance hormones
If your hormones are out of gear, your body will be too. For hormones are the body’s chemical messengers that travel through the bloodstream to get specific organs to act in a certain way. Hormone disorders can lead to several illnesses like diabetes, thyroid, heart disease, osteoporosis and even lupus have their origins in hormone…
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5 reasons that raw jackfruit is a superfood
Jackfruit is one of the least known superfoods. It means many things to many people. Like the five blind people who explored the elephant, jack fruit means five different things depending on where you grew up in India. It can be a fruit, nut, vegetable vegan meat or a carbohydrate. Most people from the South…
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7 Indian superfoods that should be a part of your diet
To most of us, superfoods mean exotic foods such as kale, broccoli, blueberries, acai berries, Greek yogurt and olive oil. Recent research, however, shows that traditional Indian food items also deserve superfood status. These 7 local and traditional foods rank higher than exotic items any day: Ghee Once dismissed for its “fatty” nature, ghee today…
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3 superfoods to superlove in 2015
These health foods, locally sourced and available at online health food websites and organic stores across India, will be trending in the new year. Will you be eating healthy in 2015. Goji berries Description Although Goji berries (otherwise referred to as wolfberry) are grown along the India-China-Tibet border, only the dried version is available locally.…
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Eggplant: Health Benefits of the Purple Superfood
Eggplants, also known as aubergine, brinjals, or baingan, are glossy purple fruits that are often prepared and treated like vegetables. They are spongy. It is a common ingredient in many cuisines, primarily Mediterranean ones. Historians claim that eggplants have been around since 50 BCE. In the past, it mainly served as an ornamental item rather…