9 Rejuvenating Food Tips from the Kitchen
by Susan Smith Jones, PhD ©
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uthor of the 3-book healthy eat- ing and blissful living set pub- lished by Hay House: Recipes
for Health Bliss, The Healing Power of NatureFoods & Health Bliss
1. Look soft and dewy with honey.
Honey has been used for centuries, es- pecially by the ancient Egyptians to keep their skin looking youthful. Apply some raw, unfiltered honey on your clean face like a mask for 20 minutes and rinse with warm water afterwards. This moisturizes the skin and helps it to look taut and supple.
2. Have a berry white smile. Straw-
berries can help you have a dazzling smile. Just juice some strawberries or, if you don't have a juicer, blend and extract some juice through cheesecloth. Then paint the juice on your teeth. Leave it for five minutes and then rinse your mouth with warm water with a pinch of baking soda added to it.
3. Give yourself a mini massage.
Here’s the Mediterranean secret for restoring vitality. You know extra virgin, cold pressed olive oil is a delicious, nutritious salad dressing, but when you combine one tablespoon of it with 3 to
4 drops of essential peppermint oil, and massage it into your feet, you'll soon be saying “Ahhhh- hhh!”
4. Soothe with
a little aloe vera.
Keep a potted aloe vera plant on your kitchen windowsill. It requires no care beyond weekly watering. For itching, inflamed
skin, bug bites, tooth ache, hem- orrhoids, a minor cut or wound, sunburn or any other irritated skin conditions, snip off a thick leaf and slit it open; scoop out the gel from the inner leaf and apply it to the infected area.
5. Assuage achy, arthritic joints
with cherries. Cherries are a delicious, vitamin-packed fruit that actually relieves arthritis pain. And they are proven to work as well as or better than aspirin and ibuprofen. Long a folk remedy for gout, cherries now have scientific proof of
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their pain-prevention powers. Researchers at Michigan State University found that a substance in cherries stops the production of chemicals that cause inflammation and pain. The scientists s a y
cherries re- lieve arthritic pain as well as or better than over-the- counter drugs! A bowl of 20
cherries (fresh or frozen) a day dur- ing a bout with gout is enough to neutral- ize the aches and swell- ing, too, with no stomach upset or other side effects.
A later study on people in Califor- nia reported the same pain-relief results.
6. Eat less with hot pepper and
cayenne. A popular ingredient in South- western cooking, chilies (hot peppers) add spice and interest to many foods. They also provide a 3-pronged attack against obesity. First, eating chili peppers may help
fight off cravings. Some experts believe that eating sharp-tasting foods such as hot peppers, pickles, and tomato juice can overwhelm taste buds, cutting off crav- ings. Second, chili pepper may help you eat less. Researchers in the Netherlands gave men .9 gram of ground cayenne pepper, either as a pill or mixed into a tomato juice beverage. Then 30 minutes later, they turned the men loose at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Compared with men who were given a placebo, the men who had chili pepper reduced their food intake by 10 to 16%. And third, it actually requires energy to eat chili peppers. That’s right, it burns calories to eat them! That's because the heat you feel when you eat chili peppers takes energy to produce.
7. Team up with cinnamon for
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balance. Most people love the taste of cinnamon. Its fragrance conjures up thoughts of the holidays and special
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