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Your Kitchen Pharmacy--Beets Are Your Buddies

Red beets have been known as powerful food and medicine for many centuries. Ancient physicians knew them for healing intestinal complaints, anemia, fever, nettle rash and many other ills. Our great-grandmothers, grandmothers and mothers knew about health benefits of beets too. Modern science has confirmed what the ancients knew--that beets, preferably organic, contain a number of biogenetic acids which increase peristalsis of the intestines, betain, which helps break down protein, and also helps form choline, which improves liver vitality.

Want to keep yourself and your family healthy and prevent illnesses? Make 1/2 glass fresh beet juice mixed with 1/2 glass of fresh carrot and improve your metabolism. "Red Wheels" is an easy-to-make, absolutely fabulous and nutritious salad that you can include in your lunch or dinner menu.

* Cook two medium organic red beets (skin on) in two cups water until soft. Cool, peel and grate them. In a bowl, combine the beets with two cloves crushed garlic, two tablespoons chopped walnuts and a pinch of sea salt. Add two tablespoons organic nonfat sour cream, vegetable mayonnaise or olive oil. Mix the salad and enjoy!

Excerpted from Mama's Home Remedies: Discover Time-Tested Secrets of Good Health and the Pleasures of Natural Living by Svetlana Konnikova, MA, AN (Healthy Wisdom Books, an imprint of Aurora Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, 2008), ISBN:9790979175824