Taken from Tips at RealAge.com

Protect Your Kidneys with This Pill

The reasons to get your daily dose of the sunshine vitamin just keep piling up. The newest? Kidney protection.
In a study, men who worked outdoors regularly -- and got the most sun -- were 24 to 38 percent less likely to develop renal cell cancer compared with men who got the least sunshine. Experts suspect the link is vitamin D, available in pill or solar-made form.
The Powers of D
Vitamin D is produced in your skin after just 10 to 20 minutes of sun exposure. And researchers suspect D discourages cancer in at least three ways. It inhibits the birth of new cancer cells, it encourages existing "rogue" cells to kill themselves off, and it slows the growth of blood vessels that feed growing tumors. And there's growing evidence that the vitamin protects against more than one type of cancer.

Taken from Tips at RealAge.com

6 Reasons to Drink Green Tea

The steady stream of good news about green tea is getting so hard to ignore, that even java junkies are beginning to sip mugs of the deceptively delicate brew. You'd think the daily dose of disease-fighting, inflammation-squelching antioxidants -- long linked with heart protection -- would be enough incentive. But wait . . . there's more! Lots more.

Amazing Health Benefits of Kuzu Root

From Delia Quigley (more about Delia Quigley at the end of this post)

 

Kuzu, or known in America as kudzu root, has been prized for its medicinal properties in China and Japan for thousands of years. In America we know it as “the weed that ate Dixie” covering most of our southern states and proving impossible to eradicate.

Disclaimer: OK, I know you are going to think this is the weirdest recipe you have ever seen, and I haven't even tried it yet. But I felt healthier just reading it!

Geary's High-Protein, Low-Sugar Healthy Chocolate Dessert
The quantities here will make about 4-6 servings, so adjust appropriately if you don't want leftovers. To make this healthy chocolate dessert, first mix together in a bowl:

GOT FAT?

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Organics

If we truly are what we eat, can we really sit back and justify that organic is not important?