Resistant Starch shows promise for numerous health benefits. These benefits include blood sugar, colon, insulin, weight loss, fat loss, and decreased calories.
Exactly What is the Paleo Diet?
January 26, 2010 By 2 Comments
You may have been wanting to improve your health and fitness or lose weight and stumbled across the “paleo diet.” So what, exactly, is the paleo diet? Good question and I hope I can give you a good introductory overview in a few hundred words. Let me start by saying that the scientific evidence supporting [...]
Guarana – just another Caffeine?
December 25, 2009 By 1 Comment
Paullinia cupana (P. crysan, P. sorbilis). Native to the Amazon basin, especially in Brazil. It has a fruit about the size of a coffee berry & contains approximately twice as much caffeine. The caffeine is a defense mechanism for the plant which repels pathogens.
Ginseng overview
December 25, 2009 By 1 Comment
Ginseng has a number of health, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant effects and benefits. Ginseng is actually any of 11 different species of the Panax genus. It is found in Asia (China, Korea, Siberia) and usually in cooler regions. It is characterized by ginsenosides. Ginseng translates “man root” due to its forked shape. Panax is from the [...]
Acai is common to many health related fruit juices
December 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Acai has been included in many health beverage fruit juices lately due to its numerous vitamins and phytonutrients. The benefits of Acai as a superfruit/superfood, as well as some of the research behind it, is discussed below. Euterpe oleracea is a species of palm tree Found in South America. The polyphenols in acai slow the [...]
Caja is a carotenoid powerhouse
December 24, 2009 By 1 Comment
Caja is a superfruit due to its high contents of calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, as well as Vitamins B & C, but especially its content of carotenoids.
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