It's not just about the quantity of protein. What really matters is the quality of protein and how your body breaks down protein into amino acids. Your immunity uses amino acids. Your muscles use amino acids to build. So you could be taking scoops and scoops of whey protein every single day and seeing...
Fasting has been one of the most powerful tools when it comes to healing a disease, cure or simply preventing it . Various types of fasts (aka Vrat in Hindi) have its mention in religious books and communities. One such is intermittent fasting(IF), where one embraces fasting and then feasting on purpose; similar to...
If you have poor bowel movement and each visit to the loo is a painful affair, or you don't feel like going to the loo daily, chances are you are “Constipated”. Constipation is the outcome of modern civilisation and is a condition that plagues millions of adults all across the world . Our body...
Coconut oil is one of the most amazing gifts of nature . Its no ordinary oil . Its therapeutic effect on the human body is beyond imagination . Right from diseases like Weight loss , Thyroid , Alzheimer's , Parkinson's to Cancer and Cardiovascular ,coconut oil has the capacity to heal the body of...
Every day I wake up to my mailbox full of questions revolving around Indian Chai and whether to have or not .While on one hand , the Indian chai has recently become a rage in the West and people from New York and California are raving about its health benefits , on the other...
Right about this time of the year, my mailbox is flooded with innumerable questions pertaining to mangoes. “Can I eat mangoes if I have diabetes?” Wouldn’t mangoes raise my sugar levels?”. “ Oh! Mangoes are too much sugar. Am I going to put on weight if I eat mangoes?” (more…)
Castor oil is a remedy that our parents, grandparents and ancestors used for the longest time and it has innumerable health benefits that can help you with so many different things. What's more exciting today is the fact that there is so much research showing the usage of castor oil and cancer. (more…)
In a medical research institute 88 obese women were divided into two groups. Both groups received nutritional counselling and a diet plan which was deficient in 500 calories. One group had one particular spice that was added to their diet. The group that had this particular spice added to their diet lost more ...
There are a lot of parents especially in India who keep reaching out to me all the time concerned about their child's growth in terms of their physical growth. So rather than looking at the foods that promote good growth, there are two or three lifestyle tips that we need to talk about that...
It's very important that we always choose the words that we use carefully and the words that we think of all the time because if there's a word running in your mind all the time that's exactly how you feel or that's exactly how you become. When you look into the dictionary for the meaning...
A nut and a seed in nature, that's supposed to germinate and grow into a plant. But basically when a nut and seed and it are in its raw form and it's not mixing with water it's meant to be dry. This means only when a nut and seed mixes with water that's when...
Potatoes are a rich source of vitamin b6 which is essential and vital for energy and metabolism. It actually helps you convert carbohydrates into glucose and it also helps with the breakdown of protein into amino acids. These are smaller molecules which are more easily digestible and absorbed into your blood (more…)
