Red fruits and vegetables

Here are some great foods that promote your health and all happen to be the same color!

Is this color missing from your refrigerator?  Time to change that!

Strawberries:  Strawberries help to boost the immune system, protect against cataracts, fight cancer, naturally lower cholesterol, promote healthy bones, slow aging, reduce inflammation, and promote healthy eyes.

Raspberries:  Raspberries fight cancer, promote eye health, naturally lower blood pressure, help to remove toxins from the body, naturally reduce inflammation, and help to produce red blood cells.

Tomatoes:  Tomatoes help promote healthy skin and hair, naturally prevent heart disease, reduce inflammation, promote lung health, fight and prevent cancer, promote eye health, help prevent kidney disease, and promote healthy digestive system function.

Apples:  Apples can help to naturally treat asthma, prevent Alzheimer's disease, promote weight loss, strengthen and protect bones, manage diabetes, and prevent breast cancer.

Watermelon:  Watermelons help to fight and prevent infection, promote kidney health, help with weight loss, regulate blood pressure, promote cardiovascular health, prevent cancer, and promote healthy sexual function.

Radishes:  Radishes clean out the kidneys, promote healthy digestion, prevent heart disease, regulate blood pressure, remove toxins from the body, prevent the formation of cancer, and naturally relieves respiratory congestion.

Cranberries:  Cranberries help to treat skin conditions, promote dental health, fight cancer, boost brain activity and mood, treat and prevent kidney and bladder problems, boost the immune system, naturally prevent heart disease, and slow aging.

Red cabbage:  Red cabbage helps to prevent Alzheimer's disease, promotes healthy digestive system function, treats ulcers, fights and prevents cancers, prevents osteoporosis, promotes healthy skin, slows aging, and boosts the immune system.

Beets:  Beets help to prevent certain types of cancer, cleanse the liver, enhance mood, purify the blood, naturally boost energy, promote respiratory health, promote prenatal health, protect against cataracts, support healthy blood vessels, and boosts cardiovascular health.

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Top health benefits of Himalayan pink crystal salt

So when did salt come out pink?  When you learn the health benefits from adding it to your food, you won't care what color it is!

It may catch your eye just by the unusual color, but the difference is in the way you will feel once you switch out your regular processed table salt for this natural wonder!

-Digestion:  Himalayan pink salt can help with the absorption of vital nutrients through the walls of the intestines.  It is also thought to help reduce the chances of the forming kidney stones and gall bladder stones.

-Ph:  It is believed  that this pink crystal salt helps to maintain a healthy ph within cells of the body which in turns helps to prevent disease and normalize energy levels.

-Blood pressure:  It is believed that pink Himalayan crystal salt can help to maintain healthy blood pressure over regular table salt when mixed with water and taken.

-Aging:  Himalayan pink salt is believed to help slow the effects of aging.  Added to a natural face scrub, finer crystals can help to exfoliate, removing dead skin from the surface so healthier skin is revealed.

-Bone health:  This exotic looking salt actually contains over 80 minerals that are essential to health and bone building.

-Water retention:  Consuming this salt can help to naturally maintain water levels in the body lost throughout the day.

-Weight loss:  Pink Himalayan crystal salt is widely believed to help with losing excess fat.

-Muscles:  Muscle cramps can be treated or prevented naturally by taking this pink salt.

These are just a few of the possible health benefits of Himalayan pink crystal salt, others include heart health, healthy blood sugar levels, healthy libido, better sleep patterns, preventing rheumatism, preventing gout naturally, and sinus health.

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Health benefits of berries

Nature's candy has some extra perks!

Blueberries:  A well known heavy hitting antioxidant, blueberries protect tissue from damage causing free radicals and toxins.  Blueberries also promote good heart health, reduce inflammation, and even contain several compounds with anticancer properties.  Triple negative breast cancer, one of the deadliest varieties, can be inhibited by phytochemicals found in these berries.  The juice of wild blueberries has been shown to help with memory function in elderly people and may even help to prevent Alzheimer's disease.

Strawberries:  Strawberries have anticancer properties.  They can also help protect organs and tissue in the body from the assault of oxidative damage.  Strawberries are thought to reduce cellular inflammation which can help to prevent some serious diseases and slow down the aging process.  This particular fruit is also known to promote eye health, boost the immune system, and helps with bone health.

Raspberries:  A good source of iron and folate, raspberries are known to promote healthy blood cell production.  Raspberries contain vitamin C, also known as the detox vitamin, which eliminates harmful impurities from the blood stream.  These berries are heart friendly, being low in calories and free of cholesterol and sodium, they can make a delicious guilt free snack.  Raspberries are also loaded with antioxidants and anticancer compounds.

Blackberries:  Blackberries carry an impressive nutritional profile.  They are rich in vitamins A and K and contain multiple minerals.  Blackberries may prevent several different types of cancer and are known to promote healthy digestion.

Now that you know something sweet and delicious can actually improve your health and guard against several terrifying diseases, skip candy and get some fresh picked berries!

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Healthy sweetener: it exists!

Not just a natural sweetener, but a wonder herb all in itself!

Beware sugar free items at the grocery store.  Lowering your sugar intake is a good idea, but you must be careful to avoid toxic artificial sweeteners.  Stevia not only is without negative side effects, but it may actually make you healthier in addition to sweetening up your dessert or beverage.

     With obesity rates going up and major illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, and depression being linked to sugar people are looking for an answer.  Knowledge of the harm caused by chemically synthesized sweeteners such as aspartame, which was originally formulated in a government bio weapons lab, is spreading and even some natural sweeteners like agave syrup are turning out to be not quite as healthy and safe to consume regularly as once thought.  The natural answer is stevia, a leafy plant that has been cultivated and used for centuries in South America.

     The problem for most people is the fact that stevia tends to have an aftertaste that is not suitable to the discerning pallet.  There are extracts and powdered forms of stevia that can be used instead of the crushed leaves and supposedly offer more of the sweetening effect without adding flavor.  The best feedback has been from people who use the liquid extract, which is several times sweeter than table sugar but passes very little flavor of the plant on to your food or beverage.

- Tooth decay, mouth sores, and gingivitis can be treated using stevia.  Add a few drops to your toothpaste or take a cup of room temp water and add a few drops and use it to gargle as a mouthwash.  This can be a great alternative to commercial mouthwashes that actually contain harmful ingredients and toxic flouride which can be absorbed systemically and cause harm throughout the body.

-Adding stevia to your tea or other beverages daily can potentially help with bone health and may benefit people who suffer from osteoporosis.  Tests on chickens have shown that, when given stevia regularly, egg shells from the chickens had a much higher calcium content.  It is believed that the presence of stevia in the blood stream aids in the absorption of calcuim from our daily diet.

-Applying a mask of crushed stevia leaves and coconut oil for about 15 minutes before going to sleep can help slow aging and repair damaged stressed skin.  Powerful antioxidant and antiseptic properties make for significant skin rejuvenation.

-It is believed that adding stevia to your daily routine can help to naturally lower blood pressure.

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Naturally reduce inflammation.

Several diseases and serious health conditions can be attributed to inflammation in the body. 

Just about all of our habits in life either cause or reduce inflammation.  There is no such thing as a free lunch, so if you want to avoid chronic health problems due to inflammation, a nutritional approach is a must.

     Up front, inflammation can be associated with increased aging but many people may not realize that inflammation is a hidden cause behind some of the most serious age and non age related diseases.  Inflammation is actually a reaction by the body to protect itself from trauma and toxins, but too much inflammation in the body can send your system into chaos.  Autoimmune disorders, asthma, arthritis, and allergies are related to inflammation but chronic systemic inflammation in the body can give rise to frightening health problems such as osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, depression, diabetes, and even cancer.

     Unfortunately our environment is filled with toxins and microbes that cause the body to have an immune response which includes inflammation.  What makes it worse is that a large part of the diet of a person living in a developed country includes processed food items that further cause inflammation, literally keeping your body "under attack" constantly.  If you are willing to make the proper lifestyle choices, you can prevent some serious illnesses and even slow down aging.  More and more people are taking the nutritional approach to health rather than taking a gamble with overly processed, chemical laden, cheap food and ending up in the hospital.  Remember that nutrition is natures health insurance and each time you eat you have the opportunity to strengthen every cell in your body or pump your system full of toxins.

     We all know that junk food is not good for you but keep in mind that it can actually kill you if you eat it regularly and eating healthy to promote good health and avoid the doctor's office doesn't mean you have to eat unappetizing food.  Olive oil makes a great delicious alternative to butter.  Avocado and nuts are good substitutes for meats.  Fruit juices in moderation and water in place of soft drinks will boost your health significantly.  Gluten free breads, pastas, and cereal alternatives are growing in numbers and being carried by more and more grocers.  Forget diets and make a lifestyle change that will save you pain and suffering and will even keep you looking younger for longer.

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