Tuesday

Black Pepper


Beat bloating!


Season meats with pepper before you grill them: When the sharp taste hits your tongue, the taste triggers your brain to produce a special protective acid that lines the stomach, preventing bloating, and indigestion before it starts. "In fact, heartburn is the result of too little of this particular acid in the stomach".


Piperine, the main alkaloid in black pepper, also stimulates enzymes that help break down food and even help the body absorb nutrients-so food becomes even healthier! In fact, research reports it can protect against major health problems such as stomach ulcers and cancers of the digestive tract.

Saturday

Curry ~ Simple Health Tips

Send pain packing. Add this bright yellow spice to potato salad and you'llnot only be giving it a tasty zing, you'll be delivering antioxidants thatkeep you feeling great! Curry powder's main substance, tumeric, works in asimilar way to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, like Celebrex, becauseit dampens the effect of COX-2, a chemical in the body that causes pain.That is not its only benefit, there are at least 30 studies showing thatTumeric's active ingredient had an anti-tumor effect and may even stop thegrowth of existing cancer cells.
Watkins offers Organic Curry