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In addition to its popular use as a mildly acidic juice, passion fruit has been found useful in providing both soluble and insoluble fibers to the body, a proven diet that brings down bad cholesterol from the body and consequently protects the person from circulatory diseases later on.  AT TIMES passion is a fruit of love. Although the same is true the other way around.  What I love about passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) though is the sweet citrus taste that is milder compared to regular orange or calamansi. Eating it, however, is another story.  I tried extracting the juice directly in my mouth the way I usually eat poncan oranges, pulp and all except for the seeds.  Yet passion fruit can be unwieldy that way. I ended up feeling less satisfied in relation to the effort I put in getting the juice into my mouth. Thus I decided to proceed the usual way: place sufficient amount of scraped juice-filled seed-sacs into a glass of water, add a small amount of water and s

I have seen a person with low potassium level makes him impossible to stand up and move around. And I don't want to watch another human being get a heart attack for excessive potassium in his blood. Balance is always a wisdom many of us don't want to hear about. ONE of the recommended nutrients for stroke prevention that need to be increased in diet is potassium. It is an electrolyte that is very important in the human body. Potassium helps regulate the balance between acid and base chemicals in the body fluids, necessary for the building of muscles (thus, for normal body growth, and in relation to stroke, it is essential for the normal electrical activity of the heart. And being a factor in electrolyte balance inside the body, its level in blood is very critical. Having too much (hyperkalemia) or too little (hypokalemia) potassium can have very serious consequences to your health. The good thing is, so many foods around us contain potassium. These are... [ R