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Spice up your life with these herbs, roots, and plants that benefit your health as much as they do your taste buds: From keeping your heart healthy and your arteries clear to reducing pain and warding off cancer, these everyday flavors will add a healthy punch to all your breakfasts, lunches, and dinners.
1. Chili Peppers
Add some heat to your dish with chili peppers — and choose versions that are especially spicy to get the maximum amount of capsaicin. Capsacin, the “
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While we’re in the 7 Miracle Spices With Huge Health Benefits (and Big Flavor) : TreeHugger | Your Pure Diet zone, Salt is possibly the most widely used of any spices. Some can’t live with it, and some can’t live without it. Used since ancient times for both flavoring and preserving foods, salt indeed does make the world of cooking go ’round. Yet, while too much salt in your diet is known to be detrimental to health, too little is equally or at least also dangerous.