Healers have been preparing medicines not only from grasses, but also mushrooms for ages. Recent sensational archeological discovery - excavation of a so-called “ice man” in Tyrolean Alps - is one of numerous evidences of this fact. (more…)

by Elizabeth Yarnell

January is always a good month to consider changes, and if one of your resolutions is to eat healthier and/or lose weight then you’re like millions of other Americans with the same goals.

The hard part is actually following through.

Here are five easy tips to guide your eating decisions toward a healthy body. (more…)

Our attitude to life does not depend on other people: only we can deal with it. And view on life is mostly determined by the things you consider most important. Many 50-year old women look excellently now and have wonderful health. Obviously, a 21^st century woman has enough possibilities to influence length and quality of her life, and it depends both on active way of living and more conscious attitude to nutrition. In other words, the foods we eat determine our life in many aspects. (more…)

Here’re most popular spices to cook most popular dishes and drinks. Of course, you should not add them alltogether. You need to consider originality of taste, correct dose, experimentation, learning existing and creating your own recipes and secrets.

So here you won’t find ready recipes, but only a list of spices, which you can use in these or that dishes. Becoming acquainted with them, you will assure that all “overseas” spices are quite replaceable by local herbs, including those we consider weeds.

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