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Tomato Paste for Your Face
January 1st, 2012A simple and effective way to improve the appearance and quality of your skin may be in your backyard garden. The unlikely food—a tomato.
Phyto Power
December 1st, 2009Chemical warfare isn’t always a bad thing: Fruits and vegetables use their phytochemicals for protection as they grow, and once inside us, these same compounds have potent antioxidant and anticancer properties, says Michael Seidman, MD, director of wellness at the Henry Ford Health System’s Center for Integrative Medicine in Detroit.
You Say Tomato, I Say … Marinara
June 1st, 2003A couple of years ago, for the first time in memory, I decided not to grow my own tomatoes but to let my father do it instead. He was sick with emphysema, too weak to do much of anything except gaze at the TV or out the patio door at the garden he used to love to tend. Between the door and the garden was a bright porch, which I lined with seedling tomatoes in terra-cotta pots.
The secret to squeezing the most out of this potent disease-fighter? It's in the sauce.
