During the fall and winter months, you may find yourself reaching for soups, stews, and chili to help keep the chill at bay. These are great to help fill you up, keep off the chill, and help you maintain a diet routine.

If that is all you are using soups for, you may be missing out on one of the biggest benefits they can bring; a boost your immune system. Here are a few of the soups that can help in that regard and how to make them.

Vietnamese Pho

You may have heard of pho soup on cooking shows or seen it on a menu at a local Asian restaurant. What you may not know is that this soup is not only easy to make, but it is also an immune boosting superfood filled soup. Continue reading →

If you’ve been searching for natural remedies, you’re probably aware that there are a variety of options available. Natural medicine has become much more popular in recent years due to the emerging information about the side effects caused by medicines that are made by major pharmaceutical companies. Moving forward, what are some of these remedies, and why do they work?

Garlic

This interesting and flavorful cousin of the onion has been used in medicine for thousands of years. Garlic contains a chemical known as allicin, which has powerful antimicrobial properties which will give you an extra line of defense to accompany your immune system. Continue reading →