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Nipa Palm89

Edible Tropical Plant Foods

Just like everything you "need" is found within you, much of what you "need" to sustain you as a food source --"lays in waiting" in your personal environment, no matter where in the world you live.

10 comments    gardening palm edible
"But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!" -- Bayard Taylor  88

Common Edible Wild Plants - Part II

There were times in my childhood when we were probably poor, but I certainly didn't know it. I didn't connect the right dots, when wild rice cakes, dandelion salad, fried milkweed pods, and day lily fritters...

14 comments    garden plants europe
Wild currants -- not to be confused with seedless raisins of the same name.77

Edible Far North Plant Foods

  Not to be redundant, but as I’ve stated before in Edible Tropical Plant Foods-- “laying in waiting” in your environment, no matter where in the world you are -- everything you need to sustain you...

14 comments    gardening plants berries
Fiddlehead Fern92

Edible Ferns, Nuts, and Grasses

Natural intelligence plays a role in life, when it comes to who survives and who doesn’t, in a world fraught calamities and woes. You aren’t born knowing a lot of things, but if you are intelligent,...

4 comments    gardening plants africa
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Function of Iron in the Body

Iron is important for the formation of hemoglobin which carries oxygen to all body cells. The red corpuscles of the blood need iron for their formation. Growing children and menstruating women and pregnant...

1 comment    health blood wheat
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Leopard Seal

 With a size of about 11 feet and weighing close to 1,300 pounds, the Leopard Seal isn’t a creature that humans or other animals in the water want to come into contact with. This is the second largest type...

0 comments    food water animals
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Function of Chromium in the Body

Chromium is an essential trace mineral occurring in very small amount in the blood and various tissue. It is a mineral that acts directly on cell membrane. It is involved in amino acid transport and breakdown...

0 comments    health diabetes metabolism
As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the worldâ -- Buddha87

Common Edible Wild Plants - Part I

Sitting at nature's dinner table, most would be surprised at the goodness and variety of the bounty. By learning about just a few wild edible plants, you'll soon be able to recognize them, and never have to...

40 comments    garden plants europe
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Health Benefits of Monounsaturated Fat

Monounsaturated fat is the healthiest type of fat. MUFAs is liquids at room temperature and semisolid or solid when refrigerated.Olive oil is an example of a type of oil that contains monounsaturated fats....

3 comments    health nutrition olive oil
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Health Benefits of Lecithin and Choline

Lecithin and Choline are closely related nutrients that are essential in the proper function of every cell in the body. They're particularly important for the liver and nerves. No wonder so many...

0 comments    supplements chemotherapy choline
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