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17 Jul 2024

15 EXCEPTIONAL BENEFITS OF MAIZE OR CORN

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Due to the increasing awareness that is drawn towards the consumption of phytochemical compounds, the intake of maize has recently gained attention for studies. Maize is considered a healthy food because of its high constituent of phytochemicals and essential nutrients. Resistant starch from maize or high-amylose maize exhibits several health beneficial effects. Due to the numerous health benefits of maize, its inclusion in our daily diets is highly recommended. Moreover, the increasing population continues to increase the demand for more food production. Apart from satisfying the incessant demand for food, maize has been proven to meet up with both our nutritional, pharmaceutical, therapeutic, economic, medical and industrial demands.

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22 Jun 2024

18 MEDICINAL PLANTS/HERBS FOR TREATING DIARRHEA

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[embed]http:////gfb.global.ssl.fastly.net/podcasts/HFB_12_Treating_Diarrhea_with_plants.mp3[/embed] I suppose each and every one of us at some point in our lifetimes has suffered from diarrhoea! Maybe not the chronic type but probably the mild one. Kudos to you if you haven’t yet! You probably might be thriving in another planet! Addressing the issue of diarrhea has become an area of concern si

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12 Sep 2024

BENEFITS OF CORN OIL

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Corn is a very popular cereal in the world and remains a staple food in various countries. But are you aware that corn is an excellent source of oil? Find out how you can benefit from corn oil.

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18 Nov 2024

18 MEDICINAL PLANTS FOR TREATING DIABETES

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Among the challenging health conditions that are increasingly affecting human beings is diabetes. This is a disease condition caused by a metabolic disorder of the body systems as a result of chronic high blood sugar (hyperglycaemia). This sort of health challenge is often associated with disturbances in the metabolism of fat, carbohydrate and protein thereby causing defects in insulin activities

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29 Dec 2024

REMARKABLE BENEFITS OF SORGHUM

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Sorghum Sorghum has remained a staple food especially in the tropical and subtropical parts of the world. Also known as milo, millet, jowari or durra, this multipurpose crop equally serves as feed, fodder and fuel source. Sorghum belongs to the grass family of Gramineae and it is the fifth main cereals in the world after wheat, rice, maize and barley.Some species of sorghum include; Sorghum prop

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7 Sep 2024

25 EXCEPTIONAL BENEFITS OF CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS

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Pink Rose Periwinkle Plants are highly valuable to humanity and the tremendous benefits they offer are certainly unfathomable. The fact still remains that most plants offer medicinal supports to tackle several ailments that tend to pose dangers to human beings. Furthermore, several biological and chemical active compounds are claimed to be present in most of these plants.Interestingly, most of t

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30 Apr 2024

18 WONDROUS BENEFITS OF PEPPER FRUIT DENNETTIA TRIPETALA

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Plants have remained an integral source of food and nutrients for both humans and animals. We simply cannot survive without them! Interestingly, they are so close to us for our usage but unfortunately, we sometimes fail to acknowledge and utilise these plants properly as we ought to do. These plants contain several chemical compounds essential for the metabolic functioning of our body systems. Som

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2 Sep 2024

HFB 12: Treating Diarrhea with Plants/Herbs

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I refer to these medicinal plants as nature’s gift to mankind!The use of plants for treating diseases has become remarkably popular both traditionally and pharmaceutically. Interestingly, medicinal plants continue to play tremendous roles in human history. Ethnobotany, which is the scientific study of the traditional knowledge of use of plants for traditional, medical or religious purposes has bee

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1 Sep 2024

19 POWERFUL MEDICINAL PLANTS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS

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Being one of the most essential and largest organs in our bodies, there is a need for us to adopt only the healthy habits that will keep our livers healthy at all times. Considering that many people have resorted to several unhealthy habits that could endanger the liver, it is high time such people started making a U-turn!But peradventure you are oblivious of certain common habits that could damag

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29 Jun 2024

21 MAGNIFICENT BENEFITS OF WATERCRESS

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Watercress [embed]http:////gfb.global.ssl.fastly.net/podcasts/HFB_9_Health_Benefits_of_water_cress.mp3[/embed] Several plants and herbs have been classified as functional foods and one of such plants is watercress. This green vegetable is regarded as a functional food because it contains several health promoting properties. Functional foods offer similar benefits as medicines, which suggests

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8 Sep 2024

17 AWESOME BENEFITS OF THE TROPICAL ALMOND

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Tropical Almond Medicinal plants are continuously revolutionising the face of the earth through all the distinctive benefits they render. Most of these plants contain powerful active compounds that inhibit and cure several ailments. This has led to the increasing global demand for these nature’s gifts. Even though most of these plants are very close to us yet, it is so appalling that most of us

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18 Aug 2024

18 SPECTACULAR BENEFITS OF SUGARCANE

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Raw Sugar Cane Do you eat sugarcane just because it is exceptionally sweet? Did you know that sugarcane juice is an excellent alternative to sports drinks? Are you aware that this industrial crop is nutritionally and medicinally essential? Whichever category you fall into, here are some interesting facts you need to know about this unique crop plant.Sugarcane is the world's largest produced crop

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14 Jul 2024

28 AWESOME BENEFITS OF JASMINE

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JASMINE [embed]https://gfb.global.ssl.fastly.net/podcasts/HFB_6_Health_Benefits_of_Jasmine.mp3[/embed] Plants continue to play an integral role in both orthodox and traditional medicines for preventing and treating various diseases and ailments. Although not all plants fall into this category, yet a great number of plants have been recorded as excellent bioresources for medicinal purposes. Th

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1 Dec 2024

NO POINT GOING HALF WAY ON GINSENG

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It is just amazing how we are surrounded by numerous plants  that provide  us  with virtually all the essential nutrients needed for healthy living. Apart from these beneficial nutrients, plants also provide us with  natural phytochemicals that are equally essential for the healthy functioning of the human bodies. So if this is the case, why do we sometimes fail to acknowledge and tap into all the

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17 Jun 2024

REMARKABLE BENEFITS OF CASSAVA

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Cassava Tubers Over the years, plants have remained an indispensable part of our lives. Yes, you can bet me on this because without plants, life will not be complete. Plants play essential role in the cycle of nature because life depends greatly on them, for example, plants provide us food, medicine, shelter, fragrance, clothing, flavours and fresh air. Being an integral source of food, photosyn

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19 Jun 2024

17 DISTINCTIVE BENEFITS OF CHRYSOPHYLLUM FRUITS

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Star Apples There is a growing concern for everyone to start acknowledging and utilizing most underutilized plants around us. The point still remains that these plants are potential sources of foods, medicines and basic support to both humans, animals and our environments. Even though the use of certain plants as a treatment regimen for certain ailments has been in practice for a long time, yet

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18 May 2024

BENEFITS OF REDROOT PIGWEED

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Redroot Pigweed The unavoidable plant groups of any agricultural lands are weeds. Weeds reduce crop performance through their allelopathic effects whereby they release certain substances into the environment that inhibit plants growth. Among the long lists of weeds is the redroot pigweed, which is botanically known as Amaranthus retroflexus. Pigweed is an annual green vegetable that exhibits the

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1 Mar 2024

18 EYE-POPPING BENEFITS OF ARIDAN (TETRAPLEURA TETRAPTERA)

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Over the past years, plants have become an indispensable source of food and medicine. To a larger extent, most people depend greatly on medicinal plants as an important source of remedy and treatment for most casual and life-threatening diseases. As a result, there is a growing demand all over the world for these medicinal plants. Aside from tackling diseases, people are resorting more to these me

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11 Oct 2024

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SAGE SALVIA OFFICINALIS?

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Sage Leaves This article titled - what do you know about Sage Salvia officinalis? is a good read for you and everybody around you. This is because it reveals some astonishing information you ought to be aware of about this distinctive herb. To a larger extent, medicinal and aromatic plants have long been classified as part of the essential components of a comprehensive health care ever since the

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18 Apr 2024

BENEFITS OF LOROCO FLOWER

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Loroco So many interests are constantly driving towards consuming varieties of wild plants. Despite the agricultural advancements and surplus food production in our modern world, the old tradition of consuming wild plants is not yet neglected. This is attributed to the fact that most of these wild plants are highly nutritive, useful for culinary purposes and offer several remarkable benefits to

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