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 by the qualities of their nuts. The more promising varieties are given names, such as Dublin’s Glory and Rex.

Walnuts in our diet

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.

Asparagus is a great blood cleanser and excellent for healthy bowel maintenance. Some even find that it soothes a nervous mind. You may find your urine turning dark and develop a strong odor. This is a harmless byproduct of asparagus. Asparagus contains beta-carotene, vitamins B1 and C, bioflavinoids, potassium, and vitamin C.

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 burning?

These are compelling questions. But a negative calorie diet it seems like a ludicrous proposition, something like a perpetual motion machine: great in concept, ineffective in implementation.

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 to foods that act as medicines. This series of letters has presented many references to the healing properties of good nutrition. Nutraceuticals are a refined specific food source that allows concentrated food therapy in a specific area of nutrition.

PINEAPPLES

Take 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 of a tropical island. Above you, the gentle dance of palm leaves moved by hot tropical breezes. Add a pinch of coconut juice and you have been transformed into Robinson Crusoe, living a life of solitude in a tropical paradise.

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 extremely valuable as an energy food in areas where other starchy vegetables can’t grow. Spanish explorers introduced potatoes to the western world where they quickly became a staple food.

Varieties of potatoes

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 a high source of vitamin C, in fact, one tomato is equal to more than 50% of the recommended daily allowance. Good source of organic sodium phosphorus, calcium, potassium, magnesium, malic and oxalic acid and sulfur.