Sweet banana - chocolate treat

Good for hunters

Ingredients:

• 4 small to medium sized bananas


• 1 teaspoon carob
  
• 1 teaspoon cacao nibs
  
• lemon basil
  

Makes two servings.


Optional:

1. Add some ice if this smoothie seems too thick - or if you want it cold.



2. Experiment with lemon basil. Add only a few leaves at first. If you like the way it tastes, you can always add more leaves and blend for a few more seconds.



3. Use lemon basil and a slice of lemon for decoration.

Directions:

• Watch the video


• Blend the ingredients


• Enjoy!

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How vitamin C in fruits varies

It's important to understand that the content of vitamin C in fruits varies in different cultivars of the same kind of fruit as well as with the level of ripeness of the fruit.

Sometimes vitamin C content of certain fruit is higher when that particular fruit is still slightly immature, and declines as the fruit hits peak ripeness.

With other fruits, the process takes opposite direction: it rises with increasing ripeness.

Consequently, we might come across surprisingly wide variation in results for vitamin C content between different investigators - because they were testing fruit at different stage of maturation or they tested a different variety.

Fruits that increase vitamin C with maturation:

• jujube
• cherries
• blackberries

Fruits that are losing vitamin C with maturation:

• camu camu, fruit of shrubby tree of the Amazon with the highest recorded levels of vitamin C of any fruit
• kiwi

Vitamin C content in live foods also decreases with storage; cool-storage is no exception.

Commercially grown fruits are picked green and their overall nutritious value is more or less poor.

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Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher

"We should look

for someone to eat and drink with

before looking

for something to eat and drink."

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Blood Type or GenoType? Which is right for You?

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Bancha tea

Beverage to emphasize for: hunter, warrior, nomad

Neutral for: gatherer, teacher, explorer

Toxin to limit or avoid for: /

Can be reintroduced after 3-6 months in modest amounts for:

Prime food for weight loss for: hunter, warrior, nomad

Good for everyone!



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Chives in Culinary

Traditional French cooking prefers combining chives with shallots, tarragon and marjoram.

Although, the simple truth is that chives complement just about any other flavor except sweet.

Some ideas for the foods that benefit greatly from (in the last minute) added chives: fish and shellfish, poultry, veal, cheese and creamy sauces, eggs and lots of vegetables like: artichokes, asparagus, carrots, cauliflower, corn, onions, potatoes, spinach, peas, tomatoes and others.

Chives contain sulfur-rich oil (found in all alliums) which gives them flavor and medicinal virtue of being antiseptic and to lower blood pressure. Since chives have less sulfur oil than larger alliums, they don’t have much medicinal use.



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Kukicha tea

Beverage to emphasize for: hunter, gatherer, teacher, explorer, warrior, nomad

Neutral for: /

Toxin to limit or avoid for: /

Can be reintroduced after 3-6 months in modest amounts for: /

Prime food for weight loss for: hunter, gatherer, teacher, warrior, nomad

Great for everyone!

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Elderberry juice

Beverage to emphasize for: gatherer, teacher, warrior, nomad

Neutral for: hunter, explorer

Toxin to limit or avoid for: /

Can be reintroduced after 3-6 months in modest amounts for: /

Prime food for weight loss for: teacher, warrior

Good for everyone!

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Tips to Make Travelling More Comfortable

It's the happy season of travelling again. Yet, if you feel exhausted and you're in a bad physical condition when arriving to your destination it will probably take you quite some time to recover and start enjoying your vacations.

In this life, however, simple solutions for our biggest "problems" and problems have been proven to be the best - times and times again. Here's a collection of great tips for travelling and as the article well puts it "A Stitch in Time Saves Nine."



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Pomegranate juice

Beverage to emphasize for: explorer

Neutral for: hunter, teacher

Toxin to limit or avoid for: gatherer, warrior, nomad

Can be reintroduced after 3-6 months in modest amounts for: /

Prime food for weight loss for: /

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Lemon and water

Beverage to emphasize for: gatherer, teacher, explorer, warrior, nomad

Neutral for: hunter

Toxin to limit or avoid for: /

Can be reintroduced after 3-6 months in modest amounts for: /

Prime food for weight loss for: teacher

Good for everyone!

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Watermelon juice

Beverage to emphasize for: gatherer, nomad

Neutral for: hunter, explorer

Toxin to limit or avoid for: warrior

Can be reintroduced after 3-6 months in modest amounts for: teacher

Prime food for weight loss for: nomad

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White wine

Beverage to emphasize for: /

Neutral for: /

Toxin to limit or avoid for: teacher, warrior

Can be reintroduced after 3-6 months in modest amounts for: hunter, gatherer, explorer, nomad

Prime food for weight loss for: /

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Red wine

Beverage to emphasize for: warrior, nomad

Neutral for: teacher

Toxin to limit or avoid for: gatherer

Can be reintroduced after 3-6 months in modest amounts for: hunter, explorer

Prime food for weight loss for: /

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