​Including this fruit in your diet will help prevent heart diseases, high blood pressure, and strokes. It will lessen your dermatologist visits with its skin beautifying nutrients like lycopene and beta-carotene. These are the two nutrients that will generate the skin’s natural protection against the ultra-violet rays of the sun that. 

Women need more calcium especially as they grow older. It’s really unnecessary to swallow those gigantic calcium pills each day. What you need is at least one serving of tomatoes a day to get the potassium and calcium that your bones need.

Cancer is one of the most common causes of human death, which is mainly a result of poor diet and unhealthy lifestyle. Tomatoes will help your body fight and recover from toxins that it absorbs from the environment, and from the unhealthy foods you eat. It’s abundant in vitamins A and C that will help speed up cell renewal, and will prevent the development of damaged or cancer cells.

Because of the high-sugar diets that we adopt, diabetes is another illness that even people with young age are battling. If you find it difficult to control your sugar intake, make sure that you atleast give your body enough amount of chromium that will aid in regulating the sugar level of your blood. This uncommon nutrient is abundant in tomatoes. It will also help you retain your good eyesight because of its high vitamin A content. It’s proven that including tomatoes in your daily diet will lessen the chances of getting muscular degeneration, a form of irreversible eye damage.

Love your kidney by consuming tomatoes every single day. Eating this nutritious fruit without its seeds is proven to help prevent the formation of gall and kidney stones. Older people can say goodbye to arthritis or rheumatism pain as well as tomatoes are known as good source of bioflavonoids and carotenoids. These two will stop the inflammation of your joints and muscles.

Healthy eating paired with enough sleep and exercise will definitely result to a healthy body. Maintain your daily exercise routines, and the tomatoes you eat will do the rest.

One should take all the safety measures and precautions for that one would for their corresponding essential oil. For further details note the section on Safety and Contraindications. In addition note that fresh hydrosol which has been produced in a clean distilled environment would be pure and free of bacteria.

​To preserve its quality and ensure its effectiveness; hydrosols should be kept in the refrigerator and used in the year of distillation. It is always advisable to use fresh hydrosols in hygiene and skin care. Older hydrosols could be used as room fresheners.
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Keeping in mind that there are many fake and adulterous aromatherapeutic products commercially available- it becomes imperative that one carefully chooses a product which has been manufactured by an authentic source and has been obtained by natural means in an environmentally friendly method of preparation.

1. Thyme has been used since ancient times to cure sore throat and other coughs and colds including bronchitis.
2. Thyme can help with lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
3. Thyme has been used to treat many gastric problems such as stomach pain, upset stomach, diarrhea, bedwetting, flatulence along with stomach/intestinal worms.
4. Thyme is also a known natural diuretic and an appetite stimulant.
5. Carvacrol, which is a major component of Thyme essential oil has been found to prevent and treat cancer.

In addition to the above health benefits of Carvacrol, it has also been found to enhance mood and the feeling of well-being. ​
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If you have not been adding Thyme to your cherished recipes, it is “thyme” you do so. Try adding this wonderful aromatic herb to your soups and salads for not only wonderful taste but also amazing nutrition with vital healing benefits. 

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​Personal prayers usually involve saying out specifically worded prayers or even simply conversing and communicating with God. Many a times, Christians will pray, meditate, study the Bible as well as sing hymns as part of their daily personal prayer session. Depending on their denominational faith, different Christians utilize different symbolic objects to aid them with their prayers.

Usually lighting a candle and reading verses from the Bible is included across all denominations. In addition, some folks could hold on to a cross or crucifix as a reminder of Jesus’s death on the cross and his subsequent resurrection. Here the main difference observed is between the Catholic and Christian crucifix. Usually, Catholic cross shows Jesus being crucified whereas Christians show an empty cross to uphold and honor his resurrection!

Orthodox Christians as well as many Catholics use icons representing saints to help them focus their prayers and assist them with their meditation. They believe that the icons contain the spirit of the saint represented.

In addition, Roman Catholics might use a Rosary, a string made of beads that helps them count their prayers while they meditate on Jesus' life and call upon Mary to offer their prayers to God.
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Conducting daily prayers is believed to deepen faith among all denominations of Christians. It is believed that spending time in divine presence during one’s daily prayers can help a person to understand the grand divine plan for their life! Because of this, many Christians utilize the time of their daily prayers to also seek direction and guidance in their life. 

​Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Considering the fact that I absolutely love French Fries- though folks from Belgium will be quick to correct that it originated in Belgium and then became famous after being included the American fastfood meals and that “French Fries” have nothing French about them!!

Now that you know this little tidbit about French Fries history trivia- let’s see how we can enjoy it and make some special flavorful versions of this tasty side dish (sometimes main dish, like in my case- just sometimes, I promise!!)

I invested in an Air Fryer- for those of you who are not sure about how an air fryer works, you can check out my article about it, titled-   Air Fryer- great way to occasionally indulge in deep fried foods!!
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But bottom line is that this machine utilizes just a tablespoon or so of oil to ‘deep fry’ and make a pound of French fries.
Then considering I love my Indian masalas, I have made these fries (photographed here) with Garam Masala, by sprinkling some over the half-cooked potatoes, after around the half-cooked mark!

I have also made these with other flavors from around the world- Ras al Hanout (also written as Ras el Hanout) spice mix from Morocco is my favorite after Indian Masala French Fries.

Try out this variation or anything else that you fancy- after all it is true that food is about healthy eating and providing our body with good nutrition, but it is also true that it is important to feed our soul with food that truly brings us joy- in this regard, there are no hard and fast rules about hey, you cannot use Indian masalas on French Fries or sprinkle some Ras al Hanout on your Belgian waffle. If you like it and it is not detrimental to your health and you do not overdo it, then a little indulgence should help to not just feed your body about also feed and uplift your soul.
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Maybe this is where the word- soul food originally came from?? I need to now research that word origin. Will let you know my findings in another post… 

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