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Food health
Food health
lants and plant products quest for money and not how the same with fruits. Generally,
have been humanity’s the land will keep him and fruits are known for their
Poriginal pharmacy for posterity safe with healthy food vitamins and other nutrients
thousands of years. Traditional and seeds for the future. but what happens when such
African healing systems and food and fruits have been
other systems like Ayurveda, Amongst many others, here are modified through technology
Traditional Chinese Medicine, a few benefits of eating Africa’s or genetically? They stop being
and Native American remedies indigenous organic crops trusted. I do not think it makes
rely heavily on the therapeutic any sense to load yourself
properties of plants. Plants Number one: Taste. with food or fruits that are just
offer many medicinal benefits, taking up space but adding not
from pain relief and immune In this part of the world, if much nutrient to your body.
support to treating chronic nutrition is queen, then taste
illnesses and very importantly, is king when it comes to food. Number Three: Eating
food. And this is for both cooked More Indigenous Organic
food or vegetables or fruits. Food Helps Generate More
The African ancestors Indigenous Organic Seeds
understood very clearly the We have read stories from For Planting
role of healthy food in body foreigners who come to Africa
health, so they propagated for the first time and they tasted It’s not rocket science that
food systems that factored the fruits or vegetables grown the one sure way to get more
in healthy seeds, healthy organically in the local farms. indigenous organic crops both
planting practices that are not One thing they don’t miss now and, in the future, is to eat
destructive to the environment to mention is the difference more indigenous organic crops
and healthy food and seed in taste from the fruits and now. It’s just basic common
preservation systems. But vegetables that they eat back sense. If you want more fruits,
most importantly, they live by at home. Organic food, fruits then produce more seeds by
the deep consciousness that a and vegetables grown in Africa eating more fruits. And this
man is what he eats and how always just hit differently when principle cuts across all our
he relates with nature around it comes to taste and that we food systems. The only way
him. So, you may call them have no apology for. we can take out GMO foods
primitive in quote, but they from the market is to support
knew what they were doing. Number Two: Healthy and keep supporting organic
Nutrients farmers, especially the ones
Sadly, many of these beautiful doing indigenous crops. It’s
practices are quite strange to Anything that nature produces very straightforward.
the modern-day man or farmer and which man has not
who is obsessed with how the tampered with always retains We can’t stand on the fence on
land will produce to satisfy his their natural essence and it’s this one, we have to be actively
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