Recipes — eat healthy

Real Vitality Tonic and Training Your Taste Buds The Real Vitality Tonic is a warm, raw apple cider, cinnamon, and ginger drink. Start a program by drinking this for eight days after your first meal of the day and again with your other meals. Real Vitality Tonic Ingredients 1 cup hot water 1 tablespoon raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger 1 cinnamon stick Directions Combine all the ingredients in a mug and let steep for a few minutes. Sip after your first meal each day. Feel free to have a second cup...

We’ve heard it, and it’s engrained in us. Food is medicine. But really, let’s dive deep down into this idea. How did they deal with disease thousands of years ago, before conventional medicine and antibiotics? The answer was in nature. Ancient civilizations became masters of using plants and herbs as their remedies. And the pharmaceuticals we have now are often derived from those medicinal plants – like garlic, onions, turmeric, thyme, black seed and so many more. The use of spices and herbs with antimicrobial activity was necessary to ward off the threat of food-borne pathogens and life-threatening illnesses. Being...