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Alternative health solutions for mind, body, and soul
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Tips to Enlightened Eating
Antioxidant in Red Wine
Found to destroy pancreatic cancer cells
Purification of the Body Through Yoga
Specific yoga techniques to improve your body's wellness
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Table of Contents Get Smarter While You Sleep
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Using audio cues during sleep can help people better retain information they learned prior to falling asleep.
Try out this issue’s featured sweet treat recipe.
Calm Mind, Clear Skin
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The mind-body connection can play a big role in your natural beauty routine. Get clear skin naturally with these techniques.
Vitamin C is at the top of the list among natural immune boosters for your body. The best way to give a boost to your immune system is by improving the nutritional value of your diet.
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Vitamin C Boosts
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Reshape your posture with yoga, to carpel tunnel problems.
Stand Up For Your Wrists
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Choosing which colors to surround yourself with is more than an aesthetic decision. The right hues can boost your mood, ease stress, and maybe even help you stay healthy.
Living Color
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Sour cherries aren’t easy their baking superiority search.
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art cherries (maybe you know this, maybe you don’t) have been linked to some serious health
disease and other life threatening illnesses, alleviating Research shows that a diet rich in cherries may help associated with heart disease. And the phytonutrient ‘anthocyanins’ which gives the fruit their red color, can help protect against heart disease and some cancers. Cherries are also being looked at for the role they can play in reducing risk factors for type 2 diabetes and for how they can help you sleep better. Pretty good stuff!
I can’t say that I agree with that entirely. I mean, just this morning I was at my farmers’ market where I stocked up on fruits, vegetables and eggs that were all grown within 100 miles of my home. But I do like that people, whether nothing more, are starting to take note of where and how their foods are being grown. And because of that, I really like what they’re doing on a picturesque 100 acre piece of property in Traverse City. It was bought by area cherry farmers and leased back to Michigan State University (researchers in the horticulture department primarily) for just $1 for 99 years. Essentially, the area farmers wanted someone to spend time studying the 300 varieties of cherry trees grown there to determine things like how to increase yield without increasing chemical dependency, how crops are effected by different climate conditions and soil types, and how other crops, like hops and apples, can be grown as companion crops with the cherries. This is all research they’re engaged in.
“Research shows that a diet rich in cherries may help You can see why they’re ce many risk du re fruit… super a ered consid in relation to human health, factors associated anyway. But what about being a super fruit for the planet? A with hear t disease.” native to Michigan I always realized that we had a pretty healthy cherry farming production going on up-state, but I didn’t know that about 95% of the cherries eaten in the U.S. are grown in the U.S., with more than 70% of those coming from Michigan. The rest are grown in Wisconsin, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Pennsylvania and New York. All said, the U.S. cherry crop yields between 200 and 300 million pounds of tart cherries a year. That’s a lot of cherries, and a LOT of cherries being grown in the U.S.! Today, more and more Americans want to know exactly where their food is coming from. Currently about 80% of American are purchasing as much “locally produced” foods as possible. And while sticking within 100 miles is the ideal for some, just eating domestic foods is good enough for many.
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Right now researchers at the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Station are also working with a new state-of-the-art sprinkler systems that allows them to adjust for rain and other factors from their cell phone in a remote location. And a new harvester that works like a car wash to gently pull the cherries from the trees, allowing them to harvest “market ready” cherries earlier in the season. And because organic cherries are at greatest risk to the Plum Curculio. There is a zero tolerance for presence of the larvae in organically grown cherries.
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Grab and Go – Get your antioxidants on-the-go with an easy "do-it-yourself" trail mix using dried cherries, almonds and whole-grain cereal. Or add dried cherries to ready-made granola. Brighten up Breakfast – Swap your typical berries for dried cherries and add them to your cereal, oatmeal, yogurt or pancakes. Just a cup of dried tart cherries gives you one whole serving of fruit! Make Salads Sensational – Add dried cherries to tossed salads, fruit salads and chicken salads for added taste and nutrition. Switch from Blue to Red – Make a change from your standard blueberry muffin recipe and use dried or frozen cherries instead. Visit www.choosecherries.com for delicious cherry muffin recipes. Straight from the Bag – Keep a stash of dried cherries on hand for an antioxidant-rich snack break. Buy single-serve packages or portion out those bought in bulk to keep in your purse, desk or gym bag. C is for Cookie... and Cherries – Enjoy a new twist on the standard oatmeal raisin cookie by using dried cherries instead of raisins.
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Greater Grains – Add dried cherries to couscous, rice pilaf, grits, risotto and pasta. Be Smooth – Blend frozen cherries with cherry juice concentrate and lowfat yogurt. Add a straw and you have a sensational smoothie for breakfast or a snack. A Perfect Parfait – Keep a bag of frozen cherries in the freezer and grab a handful when hunger strikes. Thaw them for a few minutes and then layer with lowfat vanilla yogurt and granola. Fruit Fizz – Make a refreshing cherry spritzer by adding cherry juice concentrate to ice cold seltzer water – a refreshing treat on a hot summer day. Mix it Up – Look for cherry juice blends, like cherry apple juice. Or, make your own blend and combine ready-to-drink 100% cherry juice with another juice favorite. Juice on the Run – Grab a single-serve bottle of 100% cherry juice or fill a water bottle with diluted cherry juice concentrate as you head out to the gym. Some research suggests cherry juice may help reduce exercise-related joint pain!
Enjoy cherries in a wide range of sweet and savory dishes.
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