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Can Food Heal Spring Allergies?

May in Minnesota is off to a chilly and often cloud-covered start, but I do vividly recollect a too-hot-to-touch steering wheel in April and a stretch of 40-plus degree days in March that turned feet of snow to vapor. According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, this is the first year since 1878 that nary a smidgen of snow has fallen during March, a notable anomaly considering that historically, Minnesota receives its heaviest snow during this month.

Not only has this phenomenon significantly affected our farmers, but it has also had a near crippling effect on seasonal allergy sufferers. The symptoms are formidable: fatigue, itchy and burning eyes, sneezing, headache, runny nose, sore throat, brain fog, nasal congestion, depression, and digestive disruption. As snow melts and the spring rains come on, the ground becomes muddy. If the earth is holding on to more water, then so too shall we, causing congestion and allergies for many folks.

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Recipe for a Fall Cleanse: Calming, Filling, Fat-Burning Kicharee

Usually on Simple Good and Tasty, we’re extolling the joys of eating, relishing and celebrating great food. But today, I’m going to try to convince you to temporarily deny yourself the usual culinary pleasures and join me for a seven-day fall “cleanse.” For one week, we will eat nothing but Kicharee, an Asian dish of split yellow mung beans cooked with basmati rice and spices, three times a day, to be supplemented only by a morning shot of ghee – clarified, melted butter. Oh, and lots of warm water.

I’ll start by answering your first question: No, I’m not crazy. Then, your second question: Because it’s good for you. Third question: Yes, I have done this before. Now, before you ask anything else, let me explain… 

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