A randomized, controlled trial of hundreds of pregnant women found that having women eat around six dates a day for a few weeks before giving birth can significantly improve "cervical ripening", the readiness of the cervix, the opening to the birth canal. 

You can also use drugs like Oxytocin or surgery to prepare the cervix. Although Oxytocin is effective, but its use is associated with multiple potential adverse side effects, which can affect both the mom and the baby. 

The story of life on earth is a story of starvation. Earth’s major extinction events involve ecological factors that undoubtedly caused mass starvation events; ash from massive volcanoes and asteroids block out the sun, killing the plants, which then killed most everything else. 

From this war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object that we are capable of conceiving arose—namely us.

Breads, cookies, hamburgers and kebabs are among the foods which individuals have turned into successful food companies.

Starting a food manufacturing business involves planning to find a marketable niche product that can gain loyal local or regional customers. While researching and planning, keep in mind depending on the type of the product you want to produce you need to obtain license or licenses.

Maybe you love cooking and have been dreaming about opening your own restaurant. Maybe you have worked in the restaurant industry for years mastering the intricacies of the business and have planned the whole thing, from the yummy food and friendly staff to the perfect location and special ambiance.

Whatever brought you here, now you want to take that dream and make it a reality! OK; but you still have a little work to do!

Alan Goldhamer is the founder of the TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California, which has fasted 10,000 people for conditions ranging from diabetes and cardiovascular disease to autoimmune diseases.

​He noted that conditions that seem to be tied to dietary excess tend to respond predictably to the use of fasting followed by a health-promoting diet, which he describes as a low-salt, all-plant, high-fiber, low-fat, low-protein, and low-sugar diet.
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