Food As Medicine.

All wholefoods and fresh living foods have many medicinal qualities as well as nutritional value. Just imagine how much medicine you are eating or giving to your family when you serve a plate full of fresh vegetables, salads, fruits and wholefoods.
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Also a lot of kitchen cupboard remedies I use come from food. I explain in my book how to make an onion and honey cough syrup, how to use potato to relieve gout, how to use onion for colds and chest infections.  So let’s take a look at some of the medicinal qualities in food as examples –

Healing With Food.

Almonds

High in vitamin C which protects against heart disease, good source of calcium.

Banana

Can provide rapid energy in exhaustion, full of potassium.

Cruciferous Vegetables

Strong link to a lower risk of cancer can help avoid heart disease and stroke, helps counteract anaemia, and helps regulate blood pressure.

Apples

Can help lower cholesterol, helps the bowels, good for joints, supports general resistance to illness.

Carrots

Helps protect against cancer, helps lower blood cholesterol, and helps guard against food poisoning.

Garlic

Fights infection, helps heart health, aids good circulation, can help diabetics.

Apricots

Antioxidant protection against heart disease, stroke, cataracts and some forms of cancer.

Cherries

Pain killer, high in potassium and Vit C, can help lower uric acid levels in Gout.

Lemons

Alkalises the body, rich in Vitamin C, lowers risk of cancer, helps reduce cholesterol.

"We should eat to live, not live to eat.”

Oats

Can help reduce cholesterol, nerve soother, helps stabilise blood sugar levels, eases constipation.

Pumpkin Seeds

Assists prostate health. Helps prevent bladder stones, supports the immune system, and helps remove parasites.

Spinach

Antioxidant protection. May protect against eye degeneration and lower the risk of cancer. Helps avoid and relieve anaemia.

Onion

Helps reduce heart disease and stroke, helps reduce cholesterol and high blood pressure, helps combat infections, counters bronchial constriction, and helps cancer resistance.

Red Grapefruit

Helps clean the arteries.

Pineapple

Helps reduce inflammation and speed up tissue healing, helps digestive, reduces blood clotting and also may help remove plaque from arterials walls.

Red Peppers

High in vitamin C and E protects from heart disease, cancer, improves circulation.

Sweet Potato

Antioxidant protection contributes to heart health, can help regulate high blood pressure, helps anaemia.