Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Supplements’

The Benefits of Natural & Herbal Supplements

No comments December 4th, 2009

An herbal supplement is a special type of dietary additive that is intended to help the body in some way. In order to be considered an herbal supplement, the additive must be derived from a plant or contain parts from a plant. There are a number of different plant parts that may be used to create an herbal supplement. Primarily, these parts include: - Bark - Flowers - Fruit - Leaves - Roots - Seeds - Stems In some cases, a combination of these different parts are used because each plant part may contain different nutrients and the nutrients they do contain may be in different Read more

Green Tea Supplements and Food Poisoning

No comments December 4th, 2009

Green tea supplements are good for killing bacteria – the bad kind of bacteria you would rather not have. Like the bacteria you ingest because of old lettuce, that you thought you’d try to get one more serving out of. I know from experience. Last week I planned on having lettuce salad with our noon meal. When I went to the fridge to start getting lunch ready I noticed the expiration date on the bag of lettuce was a couple days past. I’m just a few blocks from a store, but it’s January and we were in the middle of freezing rain and sleet and the roads were slick, so I decided to Read more