Herbs, Seeds & Spices

This soup will not only warm you up and boost your nutrition, it’ll give you a nice energy boost, too. And here’s a secret: kale’s flavor gets sweeter after it’s been exposed to a frost, making winter the ideal time to eat it. When the temperatures drop you might not feel like eating a raw kale salad, but what about a bowl of warm kale soup?

The U.S. is getting serious about tackling one of the biggest social and environmental problems that most Americans probably don’t even know exists: the staggering amount of food we waste. 90 billion pounds of edible food goes uneaten each year in the U.S, according to the USDA. That’s 40 percent of the food in America.

Blackstrap molasses: Sweet superfood made from sugar cane it is the antithesis of refined white sugar. Drinking a cup or two of hot water or tea with blackstrap molasses will help ease menstrual discomfort within 20 to 30 minutes. Historically used as somewhat of a cure-all, blackstrap molasses encompasses most of the nutritious parts of the sugarcane plant, like the vitamins and minerals.

Traditional herbal medicine recognized centuries ago that combining many plants delivers far better results than relying on a single plant. This is true both for supporting health and vitality and for treating imbalances and diseases. The multi-component nature inherent in medicinal herbs makes them particularly suitable for managing the multitude of issues that present in complex diseases such as cancer, and offers great potential for synergistic actions, including interactions between botanicals and the relationship of botanicals to conventional cytotoxic drugs such as chemotherapy and targeted agents.