The Healthy Journal

Sweet potatoes and nuts are familiar ingredients in many African dishes. This colorful soup combines garbanzo beans with vegetables and is served over rice or quinoa. With all the soups recipes I've provided this winter, I expect you all to be have a great arsenal against cold and sickness in the future. This soup uses almond butter. I like to use the chunky kind so I get a few small bits of almond while enjoying the soup. I find that the best way to add the almond butter is to scoop out about a half a cup of soup broth and mix it with the 3 Tbsp of almond butter until the two are blended. Then add it to the soup and stir. African Bean Soup from PCRM yield 8 servings category Vegan cuisine Ethnic ingredients 1/2 C filtered water 3 Tbsp Bragg's aminos soy sauce 1 onion, sliced 2 small sweet potatoes or yams, peeled and diced (about 2 cups) 1 large carrot, sliced 1 celery stalk, sliced 1 red bell pepper, seeded and diced 1 15 oz can of crushed or diced tomatoes 4 C (1 32 oz b

This soup is so delicious. I suggest serving this any time of the year. It will warm your tummy in the winter. Or be a wonderful first course to a great summer gathering. Everyone will love it! The sweetness of the apple and the tang of the ginger is a bonus combination. It's a blender soup. Since the Vita Mix can heat whatever you blend until it's piping hot, you could skip the stove top steps and put it all in the blender. I've made this soup twice and followed the instruction here. However, just saying, if you are really in a hurry, you might try the all-blender route. Carrot, Butternut Squash & Ginger Soup from Vita Mix yield 8-10 servings category Soup cuisine Vegan ingredients 1 Tbsp olive oil 4 carrots, chopped 1 small onion, chopped 1 minced garlic clove 3 Tbsp of peeled and diced fresh ginger 1 C peeled and cubed butternut squash 1 cored and diced apple 4 C (1 32 oz box) vegetable broth 1/2 tsp sea salt 1/2 tsp tumeric 1 (14oz) can of light coconut milk 1

Problem We live in a fast-paced world, filled with technology that consumes us and projects that drive us. Our desire to get the most out of every day pushes us to compromise on a very important aspect of health—sleep. Thinking you can get by on a few hours of sleep, you push ahead and grab the coffee or energy drink to prop yourself up. It becomes such an ingrained pattern, you fool yourself into thinking you can do this. Who needs sleep? Poor sleep can disrupt every aspect of your health. Here are a few things caused by too little sleep: Contributes to widespread pain . Sleep deprivation increases stress hormones, which result in fewer new brain cells . Contributes to hunger, which can result in over eating and gaining weight. Leads to premature aging due to interference of growth hormone production released by the pituitary gland during deep sleep. Increases your risk of dying from any cause .  Solution Stop!!! Adequate sleep is part of a healthy lifestyle. If you don't get enou

Tip: How to make your own almond milk. This video shows how easy it is:

You are gonna love the taste of this immune-boosting soup. It's better than chicken soup, especially when you're feeling a bit  under the weather . It's full of antioxidants and nutrients to help you fight disease—even cancer. While the flu season is still going, make up a batch to fortify your family. I always have kale on hand as an ingredient for juicing or making smoothies. Don't eat kale you say. Then you need to read how healthy this lovely green vegetable is for you. This soup calls for julienned kale, which means having it cut into small thin strips. Here's the quick way I do it: Separate the leaf from the spine by cutting or a quick method is to rip the leaf from the spine—hold the spine and tear toward you. Don't worry about the small spine near the leaf top. I simply rip the top from the larger part of the leaf. Make a nice stack of the leaves, orienting them in the same direction. While holding the stack with one hand, slice off narrow strips. And

Jeff Dyrek in Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen Island, Norway Recently Jeff Dyrek wrote to me to tell his story of how Vitae Elixxir helped him recover from a health condition that doctors were unable to help. During service to his country, a serious accident that should have killed him caused damage to numerous areas of his body and exacted a toll which lasted thirty years. Read Dyrek's story of the accident and what followed . The illusive health condition was killing him with pain—and, for a time, he thought he would die. His personal story of what herbs can do to help the body heal is quite striking. Here is his story "I now live in Illinois and I'm 59 years old. In 1977 I had a real bad accident while in the Navy. Doctors treated me with all kinds of medicine after only a five-minute exam.  Nothing worked. In fact, I became very ill from all of the drugs they gave me over many years. Dyrek with world's most intact woolly mammoth at the North Pole I had swollen glands