Here at Southern Botanicals some of our crew is doing our Total Internal Body Cleanse program to get a great start to a new year.
Adventures in Total Internal Body Cleansing
How to Eliminate Stress and Lose Weight
Have you ever wondered why so many people have trouble losing weight despite dieting, weight loss programs, prescription or over the counter drugs, exercise and supplements designed to help you lose weight? It’s amazing how this problem somehow evades solution. And there can be many reasons for weight gain but they usually have certain things in common.
Why I Love Cayenne Pepper, The Spicy Herb With a Million Uses
For most of my life if there was a choice between hot, medium and mild for how spicy a dish was, I always picked mild, no question.
But about 12 years ago I started to slowly change my mind and my palate when it came to warming up to cayenne peppers.
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Cayenne to the Rescue!
Cayenne to the Rescue
- How would you like to turn off a heart attack before you get to the emergency room?
- What about being able to keep up the romance in your bedroom without a blue pill, or any other colored pill, for that matter?
- How would you like to make your aches and pains VANISH?
Insights on Processed Foods From a Formerly Toxic Individual
My grandfather Roman was a Russian coal miner in NE Pennsylvania from 1913 until the 1960s. This man ate bacon and eggs each morning, white bread with butter each meal, had a shot of whiskey and a beer every evening while smoking just about anything that burned.
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Raw Recipes for Holiday Season
Enjoy This Holiday Season with Delicious Raw Recipes RECIPES 1) NutNog The base for this drink is creamy sesame milk. We recommend using hulled sesame seeds to avoid any bitterness and speed the recipe-making time. (Unhulled seeds should be soaked and drained). You will need a Vitamix or … Read more
A Thousand Suns-Sustainable Farming Video
A Thousand Suns tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has remained remarkably intact both biologically and culturally. It is one of the most densely populated rural regions of Africa yet its people have been farming sustainably for 10,000 years.
The Echinacea Scandal
I got to enjoy a wonderful day on the golf course, 2 Sundays ago in February (I live in Florida.) Despite my tendency to lose balls to trees and ponds, it was a great time. I went to bed that night a happy man, but my happiness was quickly replaced Monday morning with misery: I had caught the cold.
Canola Oil: Canada’s Dirty Little Secret
In the last 5-10 years canola oil has practically taken over as the food processing industry’s oil of choice. One can hardly find granola in a health food store without Canola Oil as an ingredient. The same is true for salad dressings and snack foods. Why is this? Is it so superior in health qualities to say, extra virgin, cold pressed Olive Oil? Not on your life – all the natural health pundits will point to any number of alternatives but never praise Canola as health promoting.
Gum Disease’s Kryptonite: Tea Tree Oil
In the battle against gum disease, a natural remedy steps up
Be honest with yourself. How much attention do you pay to your teeth and their health? On a scale of “What toothbrush?” to “I brush, floss, and rinse 3 times a day, everyday” I feel comfortable saying that I’m a “brush, floss, and rinse 2 times a day”. This, according to the American Dental Association, puts me in the middle of the pack, which isn’t bad but still leaves me at a great enough risk for gum disease that I should step up my game.
What to eat? The big question in healthy dieting
Is the key keeping things out?
If I were a betting man, I’d be willing to bet that all Americans at one point in their lives have considered “going on a diet.” How could you not? We live in a world that loves beauty, embraces the idea of living longer, and craves the perfect body. Yet, in spite of all of the commercials, products, gimmicks, and advice, America is still a leader in obesity rates the world over. So, why is that?
How to Recover From a Sugar Hangover
I’ve loved sugar my whole life and thought it was normal to constantly eat sugar even though it threw my body off balance. A normal day for me growing up involved eating chocolate-covered croissants for breakfast, a soda and cookies for lunch and sugar-covered cereal for a snack before a dinner of frozen chicken nuggets and crinkle-cut french fries. Notice a trend? Every few hours, when I would feel weak, shaky, fuzzy headed and irritable, I thought I was hungry and needed to eat something. I was right, I did need to eat something that nourished my body, but that’s not what I ate or thought of as normal food.