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The magic of dried fruit

Here we go again! With the arrival of spring, I took it, blessed like all previous years, the decision to go on a diet restrictive, so you can get into my micro bikini this summer. Begin to define what I want to delete or increase, I run to the library and I empty shelves full of diet & co and begin to select the right diet for my unjust curves. But after a few hours I leave to take the boredom and the knowledge, experience now the inexorable passage of years, that there will be no diet, because the sacrifice and discipline required for such activities are not part of my nature. So, I hide books just bought (plus aesthetically-terribly ugly) in the last rack in the bottom left, home of the tomb never read books because they are too ugly or gifts from people who do not know me at all and I even bought books that I want to mention. But one positive thing about all this fire lasted less than 24 h is the discovery of useful, invaluable quality of dried fruit. Buried in the pre-dynastic Egyptian tombs as a precious gift to accompany the deceased, the protagonists of legends and traditions, leading actors in the diets of yogis and ascetics and all balanced diets and healthy, transformed by dr. Maximilian Bircher Benner called muesli flakes, oil seeds, viable small chests are used for millennia, feeding human. But not in mine ... at least until now. Here are some of these precious jewels of food and nutritional properties mythology: in the countryside is still said today that rest in the shade of a walnut tree would cause a big headache, in fact, legend has it that beneath its branches, during the Middle Ages, witches would gather to do some 'binge riding animals and scope. In Sicily, it was believed that a nut carried in his pocket preserved from the spell. Seed dedicated to Jupiter greci.Racconta from an ancient legend that the almond tree is nothing but the princess Phyllis, died of despair in not seeing his love Acamas return from the Trojan War and turned into a tree from a compassionate Athena. the Greeks in the past used the pistachio as a medicine, in 700 was considered an aphrodisiac fruit, is now used in cosmetics for the presence of oleic acid, pistachios, imported by the Arabs, is a noble fruit, which can reach the tree 8 meters and 300 years of life. Now a bit 'of Shakespeare: "His chariot is an empty hazelnut, Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, from time immemorial the bodybuilders do. This contraption she gallops from one night to another through the brains of lovers, and then they dream of love "as Mercury, Romeo and Juliet, describes the carriage of Queen Mab, for the Celts was a symbol of wisdom, the Germans established him to the god Thor, while for the Romans was a symbol of peace and prosperità.E finally ... the smallest and most valuable oil seeds, pine dall'aromatico product: it takes 30kg of pine cones to get 1 kg of this product . Rich in protein, consumed in Europe since Paleolithic times, in mythology is a fruit loved by Bacchus, the symbol of energy, while in Japan the result appears in weddings to represent the constancy of love, Pliny extolled rejuvenating and aphrodisiac. Good dried fruits to all, and abandon the idea of \u200b\u200ba possible perfect diet!