{"id":10916,"date":"2017-02-04T13:51:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T17:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vitamins.vitanetonline.com\/?p=10916"},"modified":"2018-08-17T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:34:32","slug":"eat-a-grandmothers-secret-turmeric-prescription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitamins.vitanetonline.com\/index.php\/eat-a-grandmothers-secret-turmeric-prescription\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat: A Grandmother\u2019s Secret Turmeric Prescription"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Read about this grandmother&#8217;s trick to helping keep some of the baddies away with just a simple cooking ingredient. &#8220;Eat: A Grandmother\u2019s Secret Turmeric Prescription&#8221; covers what one discovered about the medicinal properties and benefits one can have from taking turmeric on a regular bases.<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">Turmeric was prescribed to me weekly at my grandmother\u2019s house in Nairobi \u2014 dumped into a pot of sweetened, simmering milk, or smushed with ginger powder and bronze, crystallized gur, the delicious raw sugar paste she bought in bulk and kept in old ice cream tubs with flimsy, warped plastic lids.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">There was turmeric for a standard runny nose, the dizzy rush of a fever, the ache of moving away from my best friend. 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