Archive for April, 2009


Vitamin C and Basal Cell Carcinoma Skin Cancer, Part II

I have pale Irish skin, which puts me at prime risk to develop all types of skin cancers, and so far, I have developed a few minor lesions that are of the least serious nature, the basal cell carcinomas.  Even though these are not serious, I am now dealing with my fourth lesion on my [...]

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Indian Spices Anti Cancerous?

There are quite a few traditional indian spices that are used commonly in indian food dishes that are gaining some attention for their anti cancer and anti inflammatory properties.  Hey, even without those properties, they’re still delicious and unique tasting.  Some of these spices, which include some of my favorites for seasoning in cooking – [...]

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Price of Cigarettes Encourages Quitting

Wow, talk about the perfect storm of circumstances to get a person to quit smoking for good, I think that’s what we have going on right at this very moment in American history, hundreds of years after tobacco was first introduced and grown in mass quantity in the south.  We’ve seen smoking go from  extreme [...]

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Gardening in Your Own Back Yard

The price of food, along with everything else lately, has skyrocketed.  There is something people can do to control the cost of their food and that is to start their own vegetable garden. Not since the victory gardens during the first and second world wars, has gardening taken on such popularity.  If you have access [...]

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Can You Use Coconut or Sesame Oil as Sunblock?

I became intrigued when I was checking out some comments that were made on an article that Dr. Mercola had written about acne prevention and treatment through diet, which lead me to a few other articles about sunblock and why it’s not the best thing to be a true vampire and just stay out of [...]

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