Healthy Foods To Keep In Your Kitchen

When we are sick we don't feel like running all around trying to pick up the things we need to help us feel better. It is so much easier if we keep these things on hand. Many of these foods we use on a regular basis, and it could help you from getting sick or if you do get sick you won't be sick for long. You can either refrigerate them or keep them in your kitchen cabinets.

1. Fresh Garlic - It's good for high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

2. Apple Cider Vinegar - Aids in digestion and helps acid reflux or heartburn.

3. Flax seeds or Flax oil - Helps with breast cancer, prostrate cancer, and is good for constipation due to it's high fiber content.

4. Lemons - Good for coughs and colds adds great flavor to tea's.

5. Honey - Also, good for coughs, colds, flu, diarrhea if mixed with hot water.

6. Ginger root - Is good for colds, coughs, flu, digestion, cholesterol and is also a natural blood thinner.

7. Black Seed - It is good for many health ailments as Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) says it is good for everything except death.

8. Turmeric - It's uses include coloring food. It is also good for cuts, burns and bruises.

9. Molasses - Is a source of calcium, magnesium, potassium, and iron.

10. Oatmeal - Helps lower cholesterol.

11. Cranberry Concentrate - Helps with urinary tract infections.

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You don't want to give up the finger

Dana Scarton (NYT, Dec 16, 2008) says losing your pinkie finger seems like small change, but it isn’t.

…First, you lose 50% of your hand strength. Wow—half!






…The author snapped her right pinkie, which soon could not bend. She couldn’t make a fist, hold a tennis racket,or vacuum (don’t laugh, that last could be bad).

…She broke the metacarpal—the bone that extends into the hand. This happens more to the pinkie than any other finger or the thumb. It’s a “border digit”—doctalk for on the outside.

…Sometimes breaks in the pinkie don’t even hurt—yet can take plates and screws to fix.

…This, the author says, is followed by physical therapy—which hurts! You don’t want scar tissue forming.

…Sure enough, after all this, an MRI showed that scar tissue had immobilized the flexor tendon.

…She needed another operation to free it—then more PT. That little finger carried a big punch—thankfully, she can now form a fist.

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