Flowers are a joy to behold, their simple beauty peeking through a backdrop of greenery. Home gardeners plant and replant flowers every year, tirelessly working to give homes and gardens a fleeting splash of color. Many flowers

Tomatoes are feeling a little out of place in this list because they are a fruit. But we assumed anyone looking for tomatoes would go to the Vegetable Section, so here they are. Providing tomatoes are vine-ripened, they are

History of potatoes The potato is native to the cold mountainous regions of Peru. The earliest evidence dates them back to 2,500 BC. Potatoes are a cool weather crop, growing in climates too cold for grains, making them extreme

PINEAPPLESTake a cold fresh glass of ripened pineapple juice in crushed ice. Find a quiet comfortable corner in your home and close your eyes. You will begin to hear the waves of the ocean lapping on the powdered, white shoreline

Synopsis: This writing discusses an effective proprietary product that is very effective in treating many diseases, including cancer. The title "nutraceutical" is a combination of "nutritional" and "pharmaceutical" and refers

Negative calorie diet effect What if you could eat a food that not only provided no calories, but actually burned more calories than it provided? Would you eat it? What effect might it have? And which calories would it be bu

ASPARAGUS Available in early spring. Can be expensive due to difficulty in cultivating. Its claim to fame is the amino acid aspargagine which is destroyed by cooking. Aspargagine is astrong diuretic, stimulating the kidneys.

Walnuts A person would not ordinarily think about these things, but, there are so many varieties of walnuts that they are numbered instead of named. They are developed by budding and grafting from promising specimens as judged

Excerpt from the Classic Health Book: Maintaining Health Oils and fats are the most concentrated foods we have.Weight for weight, they contain more than twice as much fuel or energy value as any other food. Taken in moderatio

The first known use of flax as a fiber for making clothing is specimens that were found in a cave in Israel dating from 6,500 BC. An alkaline bog of Switzerland preserved specimens of finely woven and brightly colored linen at abo