No matter how fabulous your turkey turns up, you’ll need an equally savory sauce to go with it. The perfect fit? Cranberry sauce.
Cranberries are not just rich in vitamin C, they also help fight bacterial infections, particularly in the bladder.
While searching for recipes, I’ve come across a website that sounds remarkably similar to mine: Fabulous Foods. A fabulous website, with fabulous resources and articles! Back to recipes, though, here are some cranberry sauce recipes you can try. The tangerine-apricot-cranberry combo makes me salivate! And when Thanksgiving is over, you may try these other cranberry recipes, too!
Of course, for those that …read more

The UK Tea Council is running a poster advertising campaign on London Underground and Network South East trains this month to encourage people to drink more tea.
A minimum of four cups of tea a day will contribute to your daily fluid intake, the antioxidants tea contains can be beneficial for heart health, and the small amount of caffeine tea contains can help increase concentration, according to the latest research – all news that should have commuters heading straight for the kettle when they arrive in the office.
Aside from promoting heart health, tea has also been demonstrated to help cope with …read more

Although it has been suggested that the benefits of eating fish on cardiovascular health and mortality far outweighs the risks due to environmental pollutants, I suppose that is assuming one eats a variety of fish types. If you eat bluefin tuna this week and sardines next week, that’s better than always eating bluefin tuna, a type of fish you are advised to consume only one serving per month.
So how do you know which fish types to avoid, which ones are good for you, and how many servings can you safely eat of a certain type of fish or seafood?

Despite all the health benefits of eating fish, many people are worried about the dangers posed by environmental pollutants found in fish such as mercury, PCBs and dioxins.
In what they claim to be the “single most comprehensive analysis to date of fish and health”, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) reviewed the evidences of major health effects of omega-3 fatty acids, major health risks of mercury, and major health risks of PCBs and dioxins in both adults and infants/young children.

A study using mouse models has demonstrated that resveratrol, a component found in grape skin and seeds, can prevent stroke.
The study showed that resveratrol increases levels of an enzyme in the brain — heme oxygenase — that was already known to shield nerve cells from damage.
Dore said the beneficial effects associated with drinking a moderate amount of red wine could be explained by the fact the wine turns on the heme oxygenase anti-oxidant system.
What does ‘moderate’ mean?

It’s been barely three months since my first post, welcoming you all and introducing you the fabulous world of functional foods. I’ve had a lot of fun learning and writing about the medicinal powers of food. Isn’t it so fascinating to see how something so “trivial”, something so day-to-day, can prevent us from contracting so many health disorders? Eating is not just about satisfying hunger. Foods also have the power to heal. As Hippocrates said,
“Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food “