Why You Should Eat Sweet Potatoes Food is is truly our medicine. The sweet potato is not only nutritious, it may even help prevent certain types of cancer.  With Thanksgiving around the corner, and sweet potatoes freshly harvested, now is the perfect time of year to indulge in this vegetable. There are about 400 different varieties of sweet potatoes which range in color from a pale yellow, to orange, pink, and even purple.  The darker colors indicate the high beta-carotene content of the sweet potato.  It also contains high amounts of the B vitamins, vitamin C, and minerals...

The Benefits of Eating Pumpkins Did you know that pumpkins are not just for pumpkin pie and pumpkin spice lattes at your favorite coffee hangout?  Pumpkins have lots of health benefits too.  Here are some great reasons to eat pumpkin: Immune System Pumpkins are very nutritious.  They contain high amounts of vitamin A (from beta-carotene) C, B-Complex and other nutrients like magnesium, zinc and potassium.  These are all very important nutrients to strengthen our immune systems.  The oil that is extracted from pumpkins is anti-bacterial and anti-fungal.   A good supply of beta-carotene may help to lower your...

Why are more and more people are becoming gluten-intolerant?  Is this because wheat has been altered from its original state or could there possibly be other reasons?  I thought modern wheat had been genetically altered (well it is, and it isn’t), but apparently wheat is not considered GE.  So why are so many people having problems with it? According to a recent article in “The Healthy Home Economist” , the reason wheat is causing issues with so many people is because it is drenched in Monsanto’s herbicide “Roundup” before it is harvested.  Apparently this practice of soaking...