Healthy Diet is Effective, not Nutritional Supplem... As the awareness of the importance of vitamins and minerals is on a rise, some scientific evidence denies the efficacy assigned to nutritional supplements, particularly vitamin pills in maintaining optimum health. In a few recent studies, taking healthy food has been proved to promise good health while vitamin and mineral pills fail to emulate the dietary role in maintaining health. Vitamin and mineral supplements have...

African Agriculture... Africa is the world’s bridesmaid. Why? because it is the second largest and most populous continent in Africa. Despite those seemingly second-best characteristics, Africa is the largest of the three great southward projections from the main mass of the Earth’s exposed surface. With this large land mass it is still a wonder why Africa seemingly have meager farm communities and agriculture. Why more and more Africans...

Corn Ethanol Bio Fuel... Corn ethanol bio fuel is considered as a first-generation fuel alternative in the United States. It is the most common type of bio fuel that is developed in the US, among others such as sugar cane and animal waste. Corn ethanol is a product made from corn that goes through fermentation, chemical processing and distillation. Corn ethanol is produced by two processing methods being the dry and wet corn milling. Both uses...

What’s preserving your dry fruit? Sulfur dio... Using sulfur dioxide to preserve dry fruits is a very common method used commercially since sulfur dioxide eliminates the possibility of discoloration among dried produce and it inhibits bacterial growth thus prolonging the product’s shelf life. Sulfur dioxide has been allowed by the FDA for human consumption and found them to be safe at some certain levels of usage. Sulfur dioxide is an inorganic, heavy, colorless,...

Equestrian Winter Care... Cold weather is generally harder on people and animals as the vital body heat is at the risk of loss and the general health condition is under stress. Things are tougher for horses whose hair coats are important for natural warming of their bodies but a number of health conditions relating skin also find a place in the equine population. Let us go through the following brief guide to good equine health in winter. In general,...