What goes on in your kitchen is an indication of your family health. Your kitchen can either be a mortuary or a hospital. Foods have natural powers to heal and prevent the initiation and proliferation of diseases in the human body. In addition to the self-healing property of the human body, the quality of food consumption reflects how the body ward off diseases and recover when hit by diseases. Studies in nutritional health has indicated several enemies of nutritious diet which include peeling, washing, high-heat, oxidation, frying and the addition of chemicals in the guise of preservative and seasoning. All the aforementioned make our foods powerless as all their therapeutic properties are lost and what we consume is chaff. Food consumption in recent generations has been largely influenced by taste stimulation. We only love to feed on what tickles our taste-bud with little regard to how beneficial it is to our bodies. How does these enemies of nutrition affect our hea...
Eat The Rainbow “ I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.." – Genesis 9:13 Eating the rainbow is a great way of eating raw food. The rainbow has seven colors and the whole idea is to ensure all the seven colors of the rainbow are present on your plate. One way of knowing what a particular fruit or food can do for your body is the color code. For example, color red in any fruit or vegetable signifies the presence of lycopene. They come with some good anti-oxidizing properties as our health requires anti-oxidants a great deal. Fruits and veggies with red color include tomatoes, watermelon, guava, etc. Watermelon has about four colors when you count from the back to the seeds but oftentimes, people only eat the red (sweetened part). You can have all of the watermelon by cleaning the watermelon thoroughly under a running tap before cutting into pieces that your blender can accommodate. Put the di...