All Blog Posts Tagged 'herbs' (3)

I devoted last week’s post to salt, and to the fact that we consume, to our detriment, two-to-three times our recommended daily upper limit of salt. The bulk of this excess intake comes unnoticed and hidden in processed and restaurant (especially fast-food… Continue

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an amateur organic gardener with many good intentions and a very modest yield.



I give my little vegetable patch lots of love, but the veggies are very slow to grow, and although some of my friends have been boasting home-grown produce for weeks, I harvested my first few cucumbers, tomatoes and zucchini just this week.



I love watching the plant in all its stages, and I’m especially fascinated to see how a fruit evolves from the flower. In the… Continue

According to a statement recently made by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, drugs designed to help control Type 2 diabetes, like the well-known prescription medication Avandia, should be subjected to more rigorous safety reviews to ensure they don’t raise the risk of heart problems.



Take the following information with a grain of salt though, as I am NOT a medical doctor. Any stupid… Continue