The Raw & Tasty Gourmet » Food Matters http://rawandtasty.com Free raw food recipes and information, store with raw food cookbooks and supplies. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:02:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How To Eat Your Way To A Better World http://rawandtasty.com/how-to-eat-your-way-to-a-better-world/ http://rawandtasty.com/how-to-eat-your-way-to-a-better-world/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:49:59 +0000 Raw & Tasty http://rawandtasty.com/?p=878 Raw & Tasty Tacos, Photo by Johan Everstijn

By Laura Weldon

Ever heard the word “locavore?” This was the New American Dictionary word of the year for 2007. A locavore is a person who chooses to eat food that has been grown and produced locally.

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What’s the best way of telling if you are at a raised risk of heart disease? Most people would probably say their cholesterol level, because too much can block your arteries. That’s why the NHS spends more than £1/2 billion a year on statins to treat

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]]> http://rawandtasty.com/sauerkraut-and-the-importance-of-good-bacteria/feed/ 0 St John’s Wort Again Proven Better than Antidepressant Drugs http://rawandtasty.com/st-johns-wort-again-proven-better-than-antidepressant-drugs/ http://rawandtasty.com/st-johns-wort-again-proven-better-than-antidepressant-drugs/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:42:59 +0000 Raw & Tasty http://rawandtasty.com/?p=323 The popular herbal extract St. John’s wort is more effective at treating the symptoms of depression than any antidepressant drug, and has fewer side effects, researchers from the Centre for Complementary Medicine in Munich have concluded.

“Overall, the St John’s Wort extracts tested in the trials were superior to placebo, similarly effective as standard anti-depressants,

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