Crunchy, healthy and satisfying — almonds are bite-sized treats that are beneficial for health, which is why they’ve been popular for centuries in different parts of the world. In fact, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the annual demand for almonds in America has increased by a whopping 400 percent since 1980.1 […]
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Munching on almonds is a great way to regulate your blood sugar levels
(Natural News) There’s a very simple way to manage your blood sugar levels. It’s so easy you can do it while sitting, watching TV, or reading a book: munching on almonds. These flexible and nutrition-packed nuts are known to have awesome medicinal value and one of the diseases they can help treat is diabetes. Research […]
Time to go nuts! Almonds, pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts and cashews, linked to lower risk of colon cancer
(Natural News) Eating tree nuts, such as almonds, pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts and cashews, may significantly reduce the risk of colon cancer recurrence, a recent study showed. To carry out the study, a team of researchers examined more than 800 patients with stage-III colon cancer. Data from an observational study revealed that patients who ate two ounces […]
Canada sets its sights on making the sale of marijuana legal nationwide
(NaturalNews) The Canadian government plans to introduce legislation in 2017 that, if approved, would make the sale of marijuana legal throughout the country, the nation’s health minister said. As reported by the BBC, if the law is enacted it would make Canada one of the largest Western countries to permit widespread usage of […]
GMOs used as gene-altering superweapons could make humanity extinct
(NaturalNews) The future of weaponry won’t necessarily involve higher capacity firearms, more advanced bombs or better fighter jets. It will encompass an entirely new realm of genetically-modified (GM) bioweapons that threaten to destroy the human brain and cause irreversible genetic-level damage to the planet. This is the prediction of Russia’s Ministry of Emergency […]
Your ‘raw’ almonds probably aren’t raw
Since 2007, every commercially grown almond from California – which means every almond grown commercially in the United States since they all come from the Golden State – has been heat-pasteurized or fumigated with a chemical called propylene oxide. Almonds are the only nuts required by law to be pasteurized, thanks to several salmonella outbreaks […]