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You know you’re enjoying cayenne peppers when your eyes are watering, your nose is running and you break out in a sweat!

On the Scoville scale of heat units, cayenne peppers come in at 30-50,000! To put that in perspective, pepperoncini comes in at just 100-500 and jalapeno peppers score 2,500-8,000. So when it comes to hot, cayenne peppers push the limits of most palates. (Though there are many peppers that are even hotter!)[1]

Cayenne pepper—one of the …

An Arabian proverb warns, “If the camel once gets his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow.” Well, it seems that the camel has wheedled its way into the dairy industry in the US.

Camel’s milk has been enjoyed by nomads and Bedouins in the Middle East for centuries. In the Middle East, camel’s milk is often referred to as “liquid gold” or “white gold” because of the healing properties it is believed to possess.[1]

But until 2009 …

At times, we try to solve one problem, but unwittingly create other more serious problems with our solution.

In the 60s, comedian Pat Paulsen was a regular on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. In one of his comedy routines, he invented a transistor radio that didn’t require batteries–because he powered it with a lawnmower engine. True, the gas motor did provide the needed energy to run the radio, but with comedic blunder, no one could hear the radio over …

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts. – James Beard, “the Dean of American Cookery.”

If what James Beard said is true, why has the prayer of so many become, “Deny us today our daily bread”?

Is this gluten-free craze nothing more than the newest trendy diet, or is there something to it?

But I think you’ll have to admit there’s more than meets the eye …

It all started earlier this year when German pharmaceutical company, Bayer, petitioned the FDA about changing the labeling on its aspirin in order to market aspirin as a means for preventing heart attacks in people who have not had cardiovascular disease.

It’s no wonder Bayer would like more of us using their drug on a daily basis since in 2013 alone, aspirin generated $1.27 billion in sales for Bayer.[1]

But the FDA took a long hard look …