The other day I was eating some of these organic, raw, vegan cookies which are made with coconut and some other ingredients, sweetened with agave. For some reason I really don’t like agave at all anymore. I feel like it feeds yeast and bacteria organisms in the body in a bad way. It seems like…

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Its the time of year when sipping a warm cup of a beverage like decaf French roast coffee, one of my favorites, can be so soothing. Those into fitness who also like to use protein powder can try this idea. There are a variety of different, high-quality ones protein powders available. One of my favorite…

A long time ago when I was at a Chinese herbal store getting some Chinese angelica – a.k.a. Angelica sinensis – dong quai – the knowledgable lady who helped me mentioned that one can add this herb to things like soups or to rice. Dong quai is sometimes called “female ginseng” and my interest in…

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I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me sooner. I often get shitake mushrooms. I keep them in the refrigerator inside brown paper bags so that they don’t get all yucky. They dry out in there. The longer they are left the drier they become. Sometimes a bag kind of ends up getting orphaned…

Thinking of signing up for Silk Road. I think its outrageous that the herb ephedra has been banned from sale in the USA. I know people can make speed from it, but so what? People can do all kinds of destructive shit anyhow. That doesn’t make it right to ban an herb which is highly…

…indigenous hunter-gatherers in Central Europe were edged out by incomers from Anatolia (modern Turkey) some 7,500 years ago. A majority of the hunters belonged to the maternal clan known as haplogroup U, whilst the farmers carried a selection of genetic lineages characteristic of the Near East. The DNA evidence shows that about a millennium later,…

Lately I’ve been becoming more suspicious of stevia. I read somewhere that there are certain unknown things about it, but that it might actually signal in the body similar to sugars even though it itself contains no calories. In other words, it might trigger the same carb-processing or fat-storage switch that sugar does. I think…

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