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Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

(photo)How ingredients make it in a recipe? Is it taste, texture or color? Or the ability it grant us to increase our well-being. For our life time, it is the taste that pretty much rules the day. However for a civilization which has lived for thousands of years, traditional foods and their ingredients give an advantage over other civilizations. We can take advantage of that fact. more…

Wednesday, August 08th, 2012

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Would it be wonderful if we could wish cancer away, by positive thinking or with a magic spell? Mind over matter is a popularized phrase during the sixties and related to psychokinetic where we could move object with our mind. This pretty much look like being from a science fiction book : Being able to wish cancer out of us or is it? more…

Wednesday, June 08th, 2011

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Who haven’t eaten potato lately? Mashed, French fried or in any which way. Solanum tuverosum, its scientific name, is an edible tuber that originated from southern montagne Andes of South America. The wild species originated from Peru. It’s one of the oldest crop humankind have cultivated, as far back as 7 to 10 thousand years ago. Worldwide, potato is the fourth largest food crop after rice, wheat and corn. Dishes around the world cook this versatile tuber in various ways.

The potato is a functional food. But researches show that the cancer fighting properties of the potato is hidden in the skin. So if we’ve eaten French fries or mashed potatoes lately with the skin stripped off, the cancer fighting phytochemicals are stripped off too. You’d only be eating starch which is a long chain of sugar. more…

Wednesday, February 09th, 2011

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We’re all well aware of blood cancer symptoms. You may even have a personal blood cancer experience symptoms with a loved one battling the disease.

Blood cancer symtoms

You’ll observe the weakness, fatigue, body malaise and breathlessness. More specific symptoms include excessive or easy bruising, frequent gum and nose bleeding. Cancerous blood cells, distinctly different from normal white blood cells, have lost their function in warding off infections. As such, recurrent infections with high fever and chills usually occur. You’ll have irksome excessive night sweats. Then, those cancerous cells seed your abdominal cavity. As a result, lumps grow in the abdominal organs causing abdominal distention, anorexia, vomiting and difficulty in urination. Headache, visual difficulties, confusion and delirium ensue when the brain is the region of metastasis. Leukemia, the medical term of blood cancer, is a devastating disease.

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