Super Foods With Medicinal Properties

Food as medicine is as old as the beginning of time but somehow as we moved into the modern era, foods were no longer looked upon as healing elements until the resurgence in natural healing took hold several decades ago. Here we examine three foods that suggest potential medicinal properties validated by immerging research.

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