Dr Pete's Health Secrets

  The  banana is an edible fruit, botanically a Berry, produced by large flowering plants in the genus Musa. It originally is native to Indonesia, Malaysia and Australasia but now grown in over 107 countries.  Bananas are naturally easily portable , easy to transport and store hygenically. They require no preparation, making them a convenient snack choice for busy individuals.  In some tropical countries of the Caribbeans, Asia and Africa, a variety of bananas used for cooking are called plantains. Delicious! In this article I will examine the numerous health benefits of this popular fruit. This curvy yellow fruit is high in potassium and pectin, a form of soluble fiber. Bananas are also an excellent way to get magnesium, vitamins C and B6. Monkeys maybe cleverer than we think! More health benefits of Bananas 5. Rich in pectin, bananas aid digestion and gently chelate toxins and heavy metals from the body. 6. Bananas act as a prebiotic, stimulating the gro...

    There are lots of supplements and multivitamins out there being marketed aggressively by big pharma, no wonder we get confused.  When one of the highest paid sportswomen in the world, tennis star, Maria Sharapova, failed a drug test, she tested positive for Meldonium.  She claimed that she used the drug to treat a magnessium deficiency which adversely affected her health and exercise tolerance. Whatever the merits of her case, it brought into the limelight the importance of magnesium a largely overlooked mineral. Magnesium is a very valuable mineral to the human body, but it is not a nutrient you usually hear about. For the rest of us we probably don't know we are deficient. Unfortunately, because of this lack of information about the mineral, many people come out as magnesium-deficient. It is the 4th most abundant mineral in the body after Calcium, Sodium and Potassium. Yet 60% of American adults are deficient in Magnesium. The daily requirement of t...

    Much better than beer and grape wine and loved by bees, Palm  wine is a natural juice, a white translucent sap of a variety of palm trees.  Although I have never climbed up a palm tree, I do own a few trees in the village. Professional tappers are normally hired to climb the palm. After tapping the tree, they position a calabash to collect the constant flow of nectar.  The nectar flows up the palm naturally by osmosis and is harvested twice a day for 5 consecutive days. No artificial prservatives are used. The most delicious palm wine or better called palm juice is gotten at the bottom of the tree when the taper comes down. I should know, been there, done it. In Igbo culture, a tribe that originates in West Africa  in the south-east of present day Nigeria,  the tapper gets paid in kind with a share of the wine. The owner of the palm tree gets the palm wine for 3 days and the tapper's share is 2 days. Then the palm tree gets to rest for 2 days...