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Great Garlic!
Many of us have a love-hate relationship with garlic. It is divine when a hint, un soupçon d'ail, transforms a bland dish into a heavenly one, but many people are put off by garlic breath and some stomach troubles when consuming the large amounts needed to reap the bulbs benefits.
Clove a Day
It's one of the world's oldest known medicinal herbs, considered by some to be a panacea or cure-all-and by yet others a terrific Dracula repellent.
Holy Traffic Jam!
Your six-year-old dawdled all morning and now you're stuck in traffic, late for an important meeting. Your heart pumps, your adrenals churn out that stress-induced villain, cortisol, aided by that double-double you're gulping. The "fight-or-flight mechanism kicks in. But you can't fight or fly-you're stuck in traffic.
Hoodia Who?
Hoodia gordonii is a cactus-like plant native to the Kalahari Desert of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswan.