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Health & Fitness

A Yam a Day

By Joan McDaniel                    

I am an LPN who ate my way back to health. This article is my continued research on food as medicine. My doctors did not know how to help nor did they seem to care for my illness was not a huge money maker like cancer, so I did it on my own.  I feel we all need to take a hard look at our own health for I believe modern medical care has developed many problems like the anti-biotic super bug, increase allergic reactions, and increased dementia.  We must take a closer look at our own health, self-care, and return to the alternate, holistic, and our traditional medicine.  This article is about the simple sweet potato.  It may be simple but it has a powerful punch. -   

I don’t know about eating a Yam-a-Day, but it is certainly has more vitamins like Beta-Carotene (Vitamin A), B vitamins, and Potassium then the other One-A-Day advertised product. -

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 A sweet potato provides a natural source for vitamins and is certainly better absorbed by the body. Now I am not talking about the candied yam like the one anticipated at Thanksgiving dinner.  I mean a plain boiled, baked or steamed Sweet Potato.  The Sweet potato is sweet enough on its own. And if you keep the skin on, it is also high in fiber.  The sweet potato is a starch and a carb but a vegetable carb. There are good carbs and bad carbs.  Wheat both white and brown bread, rice, white or brown are considered bad carbs and Vegetable carbs are considered good carbs. -

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I mean a simple boiled or steamed Yam.

 

White Potato is good but not as good as the Sweet Potato

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