10. Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are loaded up with carotene, which fights aging. So, do not just serve them every Thanksgiving since there’s more than what these sweet potatoes can give you when served most often.

9. Yogurt

Do you know that one cup of low-fat yogurt is much better than a cup of fat-free milk because it has more calcium content? Now that you know, have a cup of low-fat yogurt every morning and mix it with blueberries or granola for a much healthier snack.

8. Dark Chocolate

Now, you have the excuse to load up with any of your favorite dark chocolates for these protects your skin against the harmful effects of the sun and it keeps your skin hydrated as well. When choosing your brand of dark chocolate, choose the ones with at least 60 % cacao and has high flavanol content.

7. Kiwi

Kiwis are not just good sources of antioxidants but it also keep your bones and teeth healthy, makes your skin firm, prevents wrinkles, and it is loaded up with Vitamin C. The antioxidants in kiwi help you from getting a heart disease and cancer. You can mix kiwi with a banana to make a refreshing smoothie blend.

6. Walnuts

By eating a handful of walnuts, you will surely get its benefits like a smoother skin, strong bones, healthy hair, and much brighter eyes. If you don’t want to munch on them alone, you can just toss them up on your pasta, salad, or dessert.

5. Tomatoes

You know for a fact that tomatoes are one good source of lycopene, which is anti-aging. And for you to get the best effects of lycopene from these tomatoes, be sure that you cook it well to get the best of its anti-aging effects in your body.

4. Oysters

With the issues going around that oysters are aphrodisiac, it is time that you know that there is more to oysters than just being aphrodisiacs. Oysters are rich in zinc, which is responsible for your skin cell repair and renewal. It also keeps your eyes, hair, nails healthy.

3. Spinach

Spinach is your good source of omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins E, C and B, calcium, iron, and many more. Instead of lettuce, try replacing it with spinach instead.

2. Wild Salmon

This salmon is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which will keep your skin moisturized. It also has selenium that protects your skin from the sun’s rays. You can have the salmon grilled, in sushi, in your salad, or just with asparagus on the side.

1. Blueberries

The antioxidant in these low-profile berries helps you prevent the signs of premature aging. So, make sure that you include this on your diet daily; adding half a cup of these berries to your cereal or yogurt everyday will surely create magic in your skin and hair.

10. Blood Pressure

When the body is traced with high levels of sodium, high blood pressure became noticeable in every people. Good thing, black pepper has calcium, iron and potassium that can lower one’s blood pressure level. In addition, its vitamin C content prevents someone to get hypertension.

9. Brain Food

Feeling down, sad or moody? You’ll be surprised how black pepper’s Piperine can help you feel good. Research studies shoes that Piperine has anti-depressant properties and helps improve proper brain and cognitive functions.

8. For Colds and Flu

As a medicinal herb, black pepper is used for some dishes to help sick people with fever and colds. It has anti-microbial properties that fight against germs and pathogens that cause cold and flu. Also, its vitamin C is very active in preventing one from getting sick easily.

7. Heart Disease

Heart disease is caused by the inflammation that occurs within the walls and arteries of the heart. Also, having bad cholesterol clogged the heart’s veins, which worsen the bad heart condition more. To help you heal and recover naturally, you can try black pepper. It has anti-inflammatory contents of Piperine and Chromium, which helps regulate your blood pressure level and removes your bad cholesterol as well.

6. Anti-Cancer

A lot of food supplements are giving promises of hope to fight all kinds of cancer. Thus, you ended up on spending a lot of money buying it from the market. Well, black pepper will help you save money and heal you naturally at the same time. Based on studies, a combination of black pepper and turmeric will significantly lower the chances of getting any types of cancer as it fights the growth of cancer cells in your body.

5. Cooling the Body

During summer, you are having a hard time on how to cool down your internal body temperature. Worry no more because you can try some spicy curries at home. A dash of black pepper on your diet will let you sweat more and increase your blood circulation, which can make you feel cool all over.

4. Proper Digestion

Stomach problems such as gas, bloating and diarrhea are very common if you have poor digestion. To prevent you from getting these problems, you can try black peppers, which contain high level of dietary fiber and properties to regulate the release of gastric juices. This will help in maintaining proper digestion and regular bowel movements.

3. Good forthe Skin

Getting tired of pimples? You can try a simple skin remedy of a teaspoonful of grind black pepper mixed with measurable quantity of rose water. Apply it on your face twice a day and you’ll see the good results. In addition, Piperine, a healing compound in black pepper, is known to treat various skin problems and infections as well.

2. Weight Loss

Are you planning to lose extra pounds? You must have a proper metabolism to achieve it and black pepper is very good to include on your diet. It is not only fat free, but also, it improves one’s metabolism to help your body extract the energy you need from the food you eat. Thus, you flush away the fats that your body doesn’t need.

1. Dental Health

A very common toothache remedy is getting a mixture of salt and black pepper powder in a little water, and then you apply it on the affected area. In addition, black pepper helps fight tooth decay and promotes oral health as well.

10. Macrobiotic Diet

This is an ancient diet, which includes the consumption of grains as its staple food with vegetables and beans only. The goal of this diet is to avoid the consumption of refined or processed foods along the way. What makes this diet a bit odd is the fact that it advocates smoking to promote good health while on this diet.

9. Cabbage Soup Diet

This diet only lasts for 7 days and it involves the consumption of a low-calorie cabbage soup. This becomes popular in the year 1980’s, however, studies show that this diet only causes water loss and not fat loss, so anyone having it will only have short-term weight loss effects. The common side-effects of this diet are loss off energy, light-headedness, and flatulence.

8. Paleolithic Diet

This diet brings how people from the cavemen years eat. The diet involves the consumption of lean fish, meat, roots, fruits, vegetables, and nuts only. This is still practiced until now and has shown great results as well.

7. Fruitarianism

This is diet is believed to exist in the years of Adam and Eve. This involves the consumption of fruits-different kind of fruits for that matter. However, taking this diet will lead you to lots of deficiencies like zinc, iron, protein, Vit. D, essential fatty acids, and B-vitamins.

6. Bible Diet

This diet revolves on the idea of the foods that are either forbidden or acceptable to God. This diet restricts the consumption of ham, pork, ostrich, sausages, bacon, imitation meat and emu. You can only eat dried fish, shrimp, scallops, lobster, craw fish, clams, oyster, shark, eel, and breaded fish.

6. Shangri-La Diet

This diet allows everyone to eat all the types of foods they want but they should drink for at least 100-400 calories of sugar water or an extra virgin olive oil. However, most doctors believed that this diet is not proven effective.

5. Fletcherizing

This diet was popularized by Horace Fletcher wherein he said that a person must chew a mouthful of food 32 times while the head is tilted forward. Then, when the mastication is completed the person will tilt his head back so that the food will slide down to the throat easily. The food left should be spat out. This diet was very popular in his times.

4. Breatharianism

What makes this diet odd is that you are actually allowed to eat nothing.

3. Sleeping Beauty Diet

As the name implies, you only need to sleep while on this diet because it is believed that if you are not awake, then you shouldn’t be eating as well, right?

2. Tapeworm Diet

This diet involves eating a tapeworm cyst, then letting it grow in your body until it reaches maturation. This is believed that you will lose 1-2 lbs every week by using this method. The tapeworm is believed to absorb the nutrients in your body. Getting the worm is easy since you just need to worm yourself out to poop-out the worm in your body.

1.Last Chance Diet

This diet involves not eating anything at all but you need to need to drink a concoction made by Dr. Robert Linn. You should consume the drink by not more than 400 calories a day, the drink is made up of ground hooves, animal horns, tendons, hides, and bones that were treated with colors, artificial flavors, and enzymes.

10. A grapefruit is low in calories.

A medium-sized grapefruit actually contains 80 calories in all. Because of this, it is an ideal fruit good for weight loss because of its high water content and high fiber content as well.

9. A grapefruit is rich in Vitamin C.

We need Vitamin C in our body for it prevents us from catching colds and other illnesses. We also need a dose of Vitamin C to help our body have iron absorption and make our bones, muscles, blood vessels, and cartilage healthy. A grapefruit contains 90 mg of Vitamin C, which is just right to provide us with all these nutrients our body needs.

8. A grapefruit helps in cancer prevention.

More and more people are at risk in getting cancer because of the type of lifestyle we practice. Eating grapefruits help lowers down the risk of getting cancer like cancer of the colon, stomach, and the mouth.

7. A grapefruit is low in fat.

Because of this, consuming grapefruit won’t let you be at risk for diabetes or obesity for it only contains not more than 0.5 g of fat.

6. A grapefruit prevents heart disease.

Since grapefruit is considered a citrus fruit, then it certainly reduces the risk of every person to have stroke, coronary heart diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and other diseases related to it.

5. A grapefruit contains antioxidants.

Eating red and pink grapefruits gives you the boost you need in your immune system and as well as fight diseases that will make us sick and unhealthy. It is rich in phyto chemicals, which are known antioxidants.

4. A grapefruit gives you convenience.

Eating fresh grapefruits a day gives you the convenience you need. You don’t need to consume as much grapefruits a day to meet its daily requirements. By just slicing the grapefruit by half in the morning, you are now ready to dig in with just one spoon. You can have the other half by lunch or at dinner.

3. A grapefruit is high in fiber.

If you are having digestion problems, then you don’t have to worry since a consumption of grapefruit is the remedy to that. A grapefruit contains 3 g of dietary fiber  which reduces the risk of constipation problems and it also lowers down your cholesterol levels as well.

2. A grapefruit is very easy to store.

Buying grapefruits in boxes gives you the assurance that no single fruit will rot. You can store grapefruits for a week at room temperature. On the other hand, if you have plans of keeping grapefruits for a long period of time, then storing them at the refrigerator for two months is okay.

1. A grapefruit is high in potassium.

We need potassium in the body to provide balance of water and acid present. It also acts as an electrolyte and as well as keep up a healthy balance of our blood pressure levels in the body. A grapefruit contains 350 mg of potassium that is just right to provide us with these benefits.

10. Improve Overall Health

As we all know, carrots are very high in beta-carotene, an antioxidant to fight free radicals. Also, it provides Vitamin A, B and E that your body needs. These will help improve our eyesight, skin, teeth and digestive system. Definitely, your total health will naturally get stronger than before.

9. Stabilized Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar

Problems of Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar are very common these days. This may lead to worse complications such as chronic illness and organs malfunction. Drinking a glass of carrot juice will give you high level of carotenoids and potassium, which is believed to lower your risks of having such problems.

8. Purified and Revitalized Blood

The rich fiber of carrots juice helps cleanses our blood stream. At the same time, its alkaline content helps invigorate our blood. This will lead us to good health.

Carrot Juice

7.  Reduce Blood clots,Cholesterol, and Heart diseases

These are the common health problems experienced by adults. Amazingly, carrot juice is truly a miracle as it has nutrients and fiber that cleanses and fights back your cholesterol level. Thus, it helps you keep your blood and heart healthy as possible.

6. Prevent Oral Problems

Drinking a glass of carrot juice will give you anti-bacterial properties that kill bacteria in your mouth. This will prevent your throat from sudden inflammation. Moreover, it has calcium, which can strengthen your teeth.

5. Good Digestion and Prevent Gastric Disorders

Constipation is one of the worst things to happen. With the aid of carrot juice, it will detoxify and cleanses the entire digestive tract of wastes. This will help relieve and heal your constipation and peptic ulcer.

4. Reduce Cancer Risks

A lot of people are prone to cancer these days. As your get older, your body can no longer produce anti-oxidant. Thus, you need such help like carrot juice to give you enough nutrients to rebuild your immune system and fight cancer cells.

3. Promotes Healthy Lactation for Breastfeeding Moms

Due to poor diet and stress of breastfeeding moms, they tend to have problems with their milk supply. Good thing, carrot juice is considered as top 10 lactogenic foods. It helps improve the milk resource of moms as their bodies are strengthened and energized.

2. Increase Women’s menstrual flow.

Are you experiencing irregular menstrual period? Worry no more, because carrot juice will help you normalize. Also, it prevents you from having cramps during your period. At the same time, it improves fertility for women.

1. Improves Overall Physical Appearance

Are you having skin problems? Drinking carrot juice will help you remove scars by time and makes your skin smooth and moisturized. It is effective because its goes in to your cellular level. Therefore, it can easily repair your cell tissues. Also, you can see your hair and nails becoming healthy.

10. Talisker 10 Year Old

This whiskey is a little sweet and somewhat smoky and is a good drink once it hits the lips. But wait for the chili-pepper feel that hits the drinker right at the end. Talisker is regarded by Robert Louis Stevenson as “the king of drinks”.

Talisker 10 year old

9. BailieNicolJarvie

The overall style of this drink is light and the feeling that it gives the drinker is clean and zesty. It is easy to drink and is named after a character in a novel called “Rob Roy”, written by Walter Scott. The whiskey is distilled in Glenmorangie distillery in the Highlands.

8. Highland Park

Coming from Orkney Islands, highland is a great brand to have together with coffee, chocolate or cigars. The balance between sweet and dry is perfect with dryness winning at the finish line. Highland Park may be bit too smoky for some.

7. Asyla

Compass Box is an artisan whiskey maker and they came up with Asyla which is a somewhat uncommon scotch. The taste is sweet and delicate.

6. Auchentoshan 18 Year Old

This is a single malt that has been distilled three times. The whiskey is manufactured over at the distillery located by the River Clyde. The taste is refreshing and maybe even invigorating. The style is light, though, which makes Auchentoshan the perfect aperitif.

5. Clynelish 14 Year Old

Best served from the deep freeze and in chilled glasses, Clynelish leaves its mark on the drinker. It is manufactured at a distillery in Sutherland. Its taste leaves a fresh feeling which can remind you of High Church.

4. Old Pulteney 12 Year Old

This is probably the best drink to accompany seafood including fish and prawns. This is because of its somewhat maritime character which is complemented by the label on the bottle, which features a Wick herring boat. The distillation is done in the far northern areas of Scotland.

3. The Glenrothes 1985

This is a big and rich Speyside which can be enjoyed with roast Aberdeen Angus beef. The drinker can taste the dried fruits along with their peel when they drink it. The spicy or tannic dryness cannot be ignored either.

2. Lagavulin 16 Year Old

The taste of fruitcake and pleasant seaweed makes this one of the favorite whiskies of the people. The texture is quite attractive and the finish is fragrant and a little bit smoky. It can be enjoyed with poetry in the early hours of the morning.

1. Johnnie Walker Black Label

The taste, texture and finish of Johnnie Walker has made it a household name and it is quite difficult to find someone who has not heard of it. Most people pick this as their favorite whiskey.

10. Pinikpikan in Cordillera Region

If you visit the Philippines, you will surely be offered to taste “tinolang manok” or chicken cooked in broth and with vegetables. This dish is similar to that, however in Cordillera region, this dish is prepared while doing a ritual so they will know their tribe’s fate based on the course of action. The name of the dish came from the word “pikpik”, which means to beat slightly. This is the way the chicken is prepared

9. Etag in Cordillera Region

This is another exotic dish in Cordillera, which is actually a salted pork placed in an earthened jar and then kept underground to age. This dish is not served alone but it is mixed with other types of dishes such as meat and vegetable dishes to enhance its flavor.

8. Abuos in Ilocos.

This dish may come from a small insect but wait; it’s not your average insect dish because the price is a bit of expensive here. Abuos is ant-egg caviar that is very tasty. The dish looks like legumes; some people eat this raw while others prefer this to be saute’d. You can find them in public markets at Ilocos and they placed on leaves.

7. Adobong Kamaru in Pampanga

Lots of restaurants in Pampanga serve this dish, which is a very popular Kapampangan delicacy. Kamaru are actually mole crickets that are abundant in Pampanga and because of that the locals made a very good job in serving this as a dish. The mole crickets are prepared by deep-frying or cooking it “adobo style”.

6. Adobong Salagubang in Nueva Ecija

This dish is not crickets this time, but this are June bugs, which is very common in Nueva Ecija. This is prepared in adobo if meant to be eaten as a viand or an appetizer if it is fried. It is also best paired with beer if you plan to have a beer drinking session with your friends.

5. Soup no. 5 in Cebu and Manila

If you will have a look at this soup, it actually looks like a regular meat but behold, this dish is made with bull testicles or penis of the ox or a bull. The dish is believed to be a great and effective aphrodisiac for people who have tried it.

4. Adobong Uok in Rizal

This is another exotic adobo dish that you can try in the Philippines; Uok is a beetle larva, which is an exotic dish in Angono, Rizal. This is served with rice and tomatoes and will surely fill in your hungry stomach once you taste it.

3. Betute Tugak (Stuffed frogs) in Pampanga

Frog legs are very common in some parts of the world, however what makes this dish different in Pampanga is how they prepare it. Betute tugak consist of deep fried frogs that are stuffed with minced or ground pork.

2. Kinilaw na Tamilok in Palawan

Tamilok are mollusks, which is known as woodworms. This is served raw or in kinilaw-style (soaked in vinegar with onions, garlic, chili peppers, and calamansi juice). This gives you an oyster type of taste and texture.

1. Balut in any Region of the Philippines

This is very popular to the locals and as well as the tourists of the country. Every night you will hear vendors on the street shouting, “balut” for its customers. Balut is a fertilized egg of a duck that ranges from 16 to 18 days old. This is eaten with salt and vinegar.

10. Sandwiches:  Many bread producers add Ammonium Sulfate in dough to produce more nitrogen for yeast, which gives a fluffy airy bread. It is also used in caramel to make brown bread. Ammonium sulfate is an inorganic salt used in fertilizers.

9. Bagels: If you are thinking of replacing your subway sandwich with a bagel, here are some scary facts about bagels. If cystine or L-cysteine conditioner is used in your bagel then your bagel has a spoonful of duck feathers or human hair!

8. Chewing gum: When chewing gum, it is more than the sugar; something that will make you puke. The gum base is derived from sheep wool called lanolin. 70 percent of gum is sheep skin poop along with the crushed and boiled beetles to give your favorite red color to the gum. The shine in gum comes from a beetle, you still want a game?

7. Pizza: To avoid clumping of frozen products usually little sand is used. Silica or silicon dioxide is very common in producers to use in their frozen pizzas. Well, maybe it’s the sound that gives an amazing taste of pizza!

6. A can of mushrooms: You will always get something free if you know where to look. They can of mushrooms contain a considerable number of maggots in it. Well at least a couple dozen maggots is surely added to your mushrooms. Now who would have thought maggots in mushrooms?

5. Ash tea: These days you even have a vegetarian tea, yes! The spoonful of sugar in your coffee and drink contains bone ash. Bone ash makes sugar more whiter and of course cheaper. Bone China cups are also non-vegetarian, so if you are having your coffee in a bone cup then double catastrophe!!!

4. Sushi: Fresh fish used in sushi or any other dish contains larvae and worms. When frozen, the larvae and warm are still there but dead. When consumed with fish, these worms can grow to a tapeworm. Salmon and cod fish are host for such worms.

3. Peanut butter: Here is a little surprise for the peanut butter lovers; peanut butter contains a considerable amount of dead critters. A bag of peanuts will always attract rodents, so if you not critters then you definitely have some rodents’ hair in your jar!

2. McRib: People are taking McRib in stacks with an impressive shelf off take. The ingredients mostly contain the heart and tongue particles plus the other odd stuff.  But what you get in extra is Azodicarbonamide, which is used to make plastics.

1. Non organic milk: If you enjoy extra milk in your coffee, or you buy non organic milk, then you are definitely having clone milk.

10. The Cola Wars Went To Space

It is reported that in 1985, NASA took Coca-Cola into space. When Pepsi-Co came to know about this, they interrogated and experiments were carried out. But the experiments were dubbed as a failure by the crew member.

9. Coke-Based Barbecue Sauce Recipe

In the book called The Barbecue Bible and the Barbecue Bible Sauces , there is a mention of a barbecue sauce recipe that uses Coca-Cola. The recipe doesn’t mention the use of diet coke or Coke Zero or any other variants of Coke.

8. Coke imparts Color Back To Your Lawn

It is tested that Coco-cola can help you turn the brown grass into green. The tonic contains some lawn ingredients , beer and soda. This particular recipe will make your garden green and fresh.

7. Coke Deepens Your Tan

Coco-Cola is the most popular choice when it comes to beverages. Coke when mixed with baby oil and applied over the skin increases the tan and keeps away the mosquitoes. This is a natural repellent for mosquitoes.

6. The Coke / Mentos Geyser

In 2006 it was reported that Diet coke increases the release of Carbon dioxide in the tablets that contains mentos. The chemical reaction puts of the geyser type effect in the coke bottle. This is why the Diet Coke is more precious.

5. Coke On The Dance Floor

It is reported that Coke is being used on the dance floors to avoid scenes and where the crews mop the floor with Coke. The dried floors are more sticky and this doesn’t promote sliding.

4. Coca-Cola Started Out With Cocaine As An Ingredient

Coca-cola is expected to contain small traces of cocaine .Cocaine was banned till 1914. Coca-cola used the coca leaves , the ones that contain cocaine. This caused a huge setback for the company.

3. The 1936 Nazi Olympics, Sponsored By Coca-Cola

Coca-cola has been the official drink of Santa and Nazis. They were used in the Olympics for rejuvenating and refreshing.  Coke was the official sponsor for all the athletic events.

2. The Coca-Cola Curves Poster

In the year 1980 , coke tried to launch a campaign for the return of the original bottle. It was named as Feel the Curves. The Coca-Cola posters were made and it costed $200,000 to print and publish these posters.

1. Coke’s Cola War With Israel

Until 1966, coke was not sold in Israel. Then they started to open plant in Israel in 1949 but the country was very small. But in Cyprus, they opened a franchise. Coca-Cola boycotted Israel but Coke did a prompt face. Today both cole and Pespsi is sold in Israel and other Middle East countries.

10) Sweetened Beverages

Sweetened and sugary beverages such as cold drinks, juices, soft drinks contain loads of refined sugar and high glycemic content compared to other beverages. This is considered as a high source of energy for carcinogens in the body and leads to formation of tumors in the body. It is advised to check on the drinks that contains loads of sugar and sweetened flavor.

9) Fried Foods

Junk food like French fries, potato chips, onion rings, and fried seafood are common among teenagers and adults. These oily foods contain you healthy hydrogenated oils that increase the chances of cancer in the body. So it’s always advisable to avoid oily and deep fried food.

8) Alcohol

Most of the people consume alcohol for fun. Some make it a habit to get over the depression. Drinking excess alcohol increases the chances of cancer in breast, colon, liver, mouth and oesophagus.

7) Charred Meats

Meats cooked at very high temperatures create carcinogens named as heterocyclic aromatic amines. The blackened and toxins released are mutagenic in nature that later the gene patterns causing cancer.

6) Snack Foods

Most of the people have a habit of munching snacks like chips, cookies, cupcakes and other processed food while watching a movie. These foods contain higher amount of sugar, Maida, Trans fat that increase cholesterol level in the body causing cancer in the body.

5) Cured Meats

Hot dogs taste good. Yet it contains a carcinogen called nitratosamine or nitrates. Other cured meat like bacons and sausages also fall in this category. This increases the chances of cancer in the body.

4) Doughnut

Who doesn’t love doughnuts? Mad over doughnuts? Time for you to know that they are rich in white flour, sugar and other cancer producing items. They cause the body to produce large amount of insulin that encourages the division of cancerous cell in the pancreas.

4) Pickled Foods

Heavily salted food like fish, pickles increase the chances of cancer in the stomach. It was used a method of preservation.

3) Farmed Fish

Fish grown in ponds and small rivers contains carcinogenic items as the wastes of the industry flow into the rivers and ponds. The polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs are used to raise fish in the food. This carcinogenic item causes cancer in the stomach and intestines. This is the reason fishing is banned in the United States of America.

2) Red Meat

Red meat increases the chances of cancer three times more that consuming normal meat. All those who eat on a regular basis are likely to develop colon cancer. apart from this, the steaks, the hamburgers also increase the chances of cancer.

1) Mouth refreshing sweeteners

Some of the people like the taste of mouth refreshing sweeteners. They are coated with sugar and contain tobacco. These can cause cancer in mouth, liver and stomach.