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Fiddlehead Fern91

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,...

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The Saltwater Crocodile Will Hunt Humans Given the Opportunity.  Photo Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons Public Domain Submitted by Augustine Alligator Farm85

Animal Attack! The Ten Scariest Animals on Earth!

Animal attacks happen every single day in all corners of the Earth. It is inevitable that where people and animals overlap, there will be animal attacks. Most of these animal attacks are due to people either...

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Nipa Palm83

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
Canteloupe79

High Potassium Foods - What They Are & Why You Need Them

The average American eats less than half the daily recommended amount of potassium. Find out why you should up your protein intake, and the best high protein foods you can eat to do so.

13 comments    health food diet
Oyster is rich in Zinc78

Function of Zinc in the Body

Zinc is an essential mineral. It is involved in the metabolism of carbohydrate, energy, protein synthesis, carbon dioxide transport. Other Function of Zinc in the Body : Essential in the healing of...

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Function of Potassium in the Body

Potassium is a soft silvery white metal substance that is essential for living things. Potassium is a mineral that is important for the kidney to function normally. It is also essential for muscle contraction...

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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...

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Wild currants -- not to be confused with seedless raisins of the same name.74

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
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 -- Buddha95

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...

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Function of Magnesium in the Body

Magnesium is a major mineral important to plants and animals. In human it is needed in large amounts. Magnesium in adults is composed of 0.05% of its body weight, 60% is bones and teeth and the 40% is...

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