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How to Use Capsaicin Ointment to Ease Pain

Chronic pain has a devastating impact on your quality of life. Often, though, the medicines you would take to relieve pain can trigger dangerous side effects over the long term. Several readers report that capsaicin ointment can help relieve several sorts of pain, if you use it properly.

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We love our service members

I’ve heard that food in the military is not great- so why not send a care package of salts and spices? Use GODSPEED for a 50% off US Military check out code to any APO address

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Dominate the kitchen

If you are the holiday Kitchen boss you might as well celebrate it or acknowledge the one who runs the family holiday kitchen with this statement apron in cream or black

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Eat More Beans

A passion for pulses

Popular pulses include chickpeas, beans, lentils, and peas. You probably know these better as “legumes,” but that term is technically incorrect. As Harvard University’s Nutrition Source precisely states, “A legume refers to any plant from the Fabaceae family that would include its leaves, stems, and pods. A pulse is the edible seed from a legume plant.”

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Its time to end the war on salt.

This areticle in the Scientific American by Melinda Wenner Moyer on July 8, 2011 is interested and I am not saying one way or the other how to live your life… Im just saying that there is salt in frozen peas…. so why not try our salt free and see if you can not quadruple your salt intake

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Why do we Love Spicy Food? The Science Behind the Heat

We all know at least one person who loves their food insanely hot. They insist that their hot wings “aren’t spicy enough unless I’m dripping with sweat.” On it’s face, that doesn’t make sense. Spicy foods cause physical pain, not just in the mouth, but sometime through the entire body. Why would we deliberately eat, and enjoy, something that causes pain? Well, it turns out, there are actually some pretty compelling reasons why so many people around the world love the way it hurts.

Spicy Foods Can Cause a “High”

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NIH National Library of Medicine

The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies has increased in the United States, but little is known about consumers’ perceptions of use of such therapies. The purpose of this study was to assess knowledge, perceptions, and predictors of spice use for health promotion among adults in the Midwestern US.

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