JOY FEELINGS MAGAZINE February Love issue 2017! | Page 37
them a regular part of your diet.
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Use the root in soups or saute it on its own.
If the raw leaves are too bitter for you, try them lightly steamed or sauteed.
AMAZING HEALING PROPERTIES OF FRUITS
Fruit is not only enjoyable to eat-- as it should be, considering the very word fruit stems from the Latin word frui, meaning " to enjoy, use "-- but it also nourishes and protects the body with powerful, builtin medicinal activity. Fruits are by design a " perfect food," intended to entice animals to consume them in order to help disseminate their seeds, for instance. This means that unlike grains, and other lectin- and antinutrient-rich organisms, e. g. wheat, tomato, beans, we humans have chosen to make into our food, fruits are less likely to come equipped with " invisible thorns," as they benefit as much in being eaten as we do in eating them. Also, like our now hardwired biological dependence on obtaining vitamin C from external sources( unlike most animals we can not produce it from glucose), countless millennia of fruit consumption has left