High cholesterol, natural remedies

Christmas spices and perfumes, properties, benefits and warnings
This is the time for spices, with warm and enveloping aromas that tease the senses and fill homes with perfumes. Never as in these months of late autumn and early winter has it been so easy and pleasant to add ginger, ci...
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Lupin beans, properties and warnings
Lupin or lupini beans are the seeds of the Lupinus plant, of the legume, or Fabaceae, family. Lupin beans are classified as legumes, they have been known for centuries, even before 2000 BC, and the lupine plant was culti...
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Thyme, properties, benefits and warnings
Thyme, here is a simply wonderful little plant! Consider that thyme was already known as a natural remedy at the time of the ancient Greeks, who used it to protect the liver and intestines. Several centuries later, thyme...
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Milk thistle, how to take it, benefits and warnings
Milk thistle, scientific name silybum marianum, is a plant of the Asteraceae family, the same as the artichoke and dandelion, and is a remedy known and used for more than 2000 years. Science has dedicated several studies...
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Walnuts, properties and benefits
Walnuts have always been considered a healthy food, important to include in the daily diet of adults and children, at breakfast or as a mid-morning snack. And the fact that walnuts are beneficial is further supported by ...
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Chestnuts, properties, cooking methods, recipes and warnings
They are the gift of autumn, they inspire songs and cheer up snacks, lunches and dinners, we are talking about chestnuts, the fruits of the chestnut tree, or Castanea sativa. Chestnuts can be consumed in different ways, ...
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Health soups, properties, benefits and warnings
Soups are a perfect dish to consume on cooler days, just like the ones we are about to face. Soups are tasty and, after an appropriate choice of ingredients, they can become true allies of health, providing antioxidants,...
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Barley, properties, benefits, warnings and recipes of one of the healthiest and tastiest cereals
Barley is, nowadays, one of the most consumed cereals in the world. Thanks to the full-bodied and tasty grain, which lends itself to delicious recipes, but also to its important healthy properties. Let's find out what th...
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Quinoa, properties, benefits and recipes
Quinoa is an ancient food, cultivated by pre-Columbian Andean peoples. Nowadays quinoa is known all over the world and is easily available in every supermarket. In fact, quinoa is considered to all intents and purposes a...
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Plums, fresh, dried, jam and juice, here are the benefits, properties and warnings
Plums are starting to appear on the shelves of supermarkets and greengrocers. These delicious fruits, however, can also be enjoyed all year round, in the form of dried plums, jam and juice. Let's see the properties, bene...
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Chickpeas, properties and benefits of these tasty legumes
The chickpea, scientific name Cicer arietinum, is a plant of the Fabaceae family, whose seeds are the second most consumed legume in the world, chickpeas indeed! Cultivated in more than 50 countries, we can find chickpea...
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Ricotta, properties, curiosities and warnings
Dairy products have long been considered products capable of increasing inflammation in the body. However, more and more studies are re-evaluating them and even demonstrating their healthy and anti-inflammatory action. L...
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Zucchini, properties, benefits and warnings
Zucchini is a seasonal vegetable that we can enjoy from May to September. The characteristic of the Zucchini is that this fruit is picked while still immature from the Cucurbita Pepo plant, belonging to the Cucurbitaceae...
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Rosemary, properties, benefits and contraindications of this well-known aromatic plant
Today we talk about the properties of rosemary, one of the most loved and easy to find aromatic plants on balconies and in gardens. A pair of scissors, a jump out and here we have a precious sprig of rosemary in our hand...
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Watermelon, properties, benefits and contraindications
Watermelon quenches thirst even on the hottest days, it's fresh, colorful and everyone likes it. But today we will see other reasons why serving watermelon is really an excellent choice, not only for the palate but also ...
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Hibiscus tea, the infusion of hibiscus flowers that helps to lose weight and rejuvenates the skin, heart and liver
Hibiscus flowers are a feast for the eyes. Large, fleshy and fragile, their bright colors open up to the world, revealing all their beauty. But hibiscus flowers are also precious health allies, as we will discover later ...
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Melon, here are all the properties of this sweet and fragrant fruit
The melon, scientific name Cucumis melo, belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family, the same as the courgette, cucumber and watermelon. There are several varieties of melon, which differ in flavour, colour, skin and size. In f...
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Spirulina, benefits, properties and warnings of this superfood
Health is largely determined by what we eat, we have now become aware of it. And it is thanks to this awareness that the industry is adapting to the different habits of consumers and is opting for a progressive reduction...
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Raspberries, the fruit for longevity that protects the brain, liver and heart
Of a beautiful ruby red color and pleasantly scented, so delicious that they manage to conquer anyone, taken as breakfast, mid-morning snack or dessert, we are talking about raspberries. Now the shelves of supermarkets a...
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Apple cider vinegar, properties, benefits and warnings of this highly appreciated condiment
Apple cider vinegar is one of the best known and most used types of vinegar in the world. Apple cider vinegar is obtained by fermenting cider or apple must and the result is a very popular dressing for salads and side di...
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Pears, properties, benefits and healthy recipes
The pear is one of the best known and cultivated fruits in the world, and also one of the most loved, since ancient times. Suffice it to say that the pear was the fruit sacred to Hera, the wife of Zeus, and to Aphrodite,...
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Rooibos tea, benefits, properties and warnings of a very popular and widespread drink
Its name is Aspalathus linearis and perhaps this term can tell us little, but from the leaves of this plant of the Fabaceae family and native to South Africa, a well-known infusion is obtained, rooibos tea! Rooibos tea i...
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Fruit and vegetable juices, properties, benefits and warnings
Fruit and vegetable juices are often considered an excellent alternative to whole food, practical to carry with you, tasty and, it is believed, also healthy, so much so that many chapters and pages of books and magazines...
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Chamomile, the natural remedy with unexpected properties
A cup of chamomile… how many times have we drunk it, perhaps without giving it too much importance, considering it an infusion useful only to calm down a little. Yet, chamomile is a powerful source of health properties...
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Hazelnuts, properties, benefits and recipes
Tasty and crunchy, today we're talking about hazelnuts! Oh yes, because this variety of dried fruit is not just a tasty addition to energy bars or muesli in the morning, but a real concentrate of healthy properties. So l...
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Acai, properties and contraindications of these extraordinary berries
Acai berries are the fruit of the Euterpe Oleracea palm, which grows only in the Amazon. The inhabitants of the Amazon have used these precious berries for millennia as a nutritious food but also as a remedy for various ...
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Bee pollen, properties, benefits and warnings of this powerful natural remedy
The ancient Egyptians called bee pollen the life-giving powder and archaeologists have unearthed several documents dating back to the time of the ancient Greeks that testify to the use of this remedy to treat diseases an...
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Chia seeds, properties, benefits, recipes and contraindications of this superfood
Chia seeds are obtained from the Salvia hispanica plant, belonging to the Lamiaceae family and native to Mexico and Guatemala. These precious seeds were already known to the Aztecs, who used them as a source of sustenanc...
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Corn silk, the surprising remedy
Corn silk is often considered a waste material to be thrown away, but corn silk has been a remedy known for centuries by popular medicine and, nowadays, also by science. In fact, there are several studies dedicated to th...
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Yerba mate, the drink with incredible properties
Yerba Mate, or simply mate, is a tea obtained from the dried leaves of the evergreen bush Ilex paraguariensi, a plant from South America, where drinking mate is still a real ritual. Year after year the fame of mate is ov...
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