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Quinoa nutrition – why quinoa can help you lose weight and improve your health

  By ironman45 | December 21, 2011 - 4:49 am | detox, food, heart disease, migraine/headache, weight loss
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Quinoa is native to South America. The pre-Columbian Incas saw it as a sacred food, calling it chisaya mama (mother grain). They planted the first seeds of the season in religious ceremonies using golden tools. Depriving the people of quinoa was one of the means the Spanish used to conquer the Incas. In recent years, people who value nutrition have begun to appreciate the wisdom of the Incas in esteeming this food which offers a host of health benefits. (more…)

Ginkgo Biloba, Co-Q10, Riboflavin and Magnesium Effective in Reducing Migraines.

  By ironman45 | March 21, 2011 - 8:23 pm | migraine/headache
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The migraine headache is considered a vascular headache, although the precise mechanism and etiology remain unknown. There are several known triggers some of which include food allergies, blood sugar disturbances, stress load, mechanical injury, and hormonal fluctuations. The vascular hypothesis of migraine, first proposed by Wolff, theorizes that the aura of migraine is caused by intracerebral constriction followed by extracranial vasodilation resulting in headache pain.  (more…)