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Unbelievable benefits of saffron

I read this article that amazed me. I remember when I was a child my mother used to tell me not to eat too much saffron because I would laugh without any reason. Now this article says that saffron is a good medicine for depression! Traditionally we use saffron in different ways We may mix a little saffron with tea. It has a nice smell and taste. We also make rice with saffron. Chicken also marinated in saffron and water for a few days and then you can grill or barbeque it. We also pour saffron in cold water with just a little sugar, it is very refreshing. Well depression is only one of its benefits. I have copied part of the article here: Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3731881/ "There are clinical trials conducted evaluating the efficacy of saffron in mild-to-moderate depression. The studies reported that saffron was more effective than placebo and at least equivalent to therapeutic doses of imipramine and fluoxetine. No significant differences...

Why in religions eating animals is limited

As you may know in three major religions human is forbidden to eat all kind of animals and it has been limited to a rule of some sort. Religious people may not wonder why and non-religious people may criticize it. Here is why: 1. All the animals that allowed for human to be eaten are fed with vegetables. All predators or those that naturally may live or eat in filthy area is forbidden. Swine is an example. Even though farmers may keep them in a clean environment but this animal naturally eats and lives in dirty area. So the first reason is that these animal are not affected by blood or meat of other animals 2. If you look at nature, each animal is only feeding on a certain range of food. You can't find an animal that eats everything on earth! This is to keep the nature in its balanced cycle and is crucial for ecosystem. Other than that, all the creators would be now extinct. Now imagine human were also allowed to eat anything to begin with, There would be nothing on the...