SPICES FOR SEASONING & FLAVOURING

SPICES FOR SEASONING & FLAVOURING

“The body is the outcome of food. Even as disease is the outcome of food. The distinction between ease and disease arises on account of wholesome nutrition or the lack of it respectively” – Charaka – 300 BC. Seasoning and flavouring: You can use spices and herbs but not cream based sauces. You can also […]

Saturated Fats & Cholesterol

Saturated Fats & Cholesterol

For over forty years now as Nick English writes, saturated fat has been seen as nothing but artery clogging, obesity-causing poison. This “common sense fact” has become so widely accepted that a lot of people who want to improve their diet start by purchasing skim milk, ditching their egg yolks, and beginning a life free […]

THE SALT INTAKE

THE SALT INTAKE

“Salt is what makes things taste bad when it isn’t in them.” – Anon As Kris Ginnar writes, Sodium is one of those things that everyone “knows” is unhealthy… kind of like saturated fat. The government has been warning us about it for decades and has spent a massive amount of resources warning us about […]

EFFECTS OF MILK

EFFECTS OF MILK

Milk is a drink consumed by humans and other animals. But humans are the only kind that drinks the milk of other species even after weaning and throughout their adult life. Perhaps, ants domesticating and milking aphids for their honeydew may be another such example. Milk contains calcium, magnesium, zinc, proteins, fats, sugars, vitamins A […]

BENEFITS OF FRUITS ?

BENEFITS OF FRUITS ?

It is true that fruit is good for you and that your body can handle a certain amount of fructose without any harmful effects. However, research shows that fructose, the natural sugar found in fruit, is severely detrimental to health if taken in large quantities. Fructose is something our body has not been evolved to […]

OBESITY AND OUR GENES

OBESITY AND OUR GENES

As Sylvia Tara writes in ‘The Secret Life of Fat’ – Being Fat is considered a personal failing – an effect of the lack of will power, for eating too much and being too large to exercise and burn off those excess calories. Fortunately we do not need to blame ourselves as research has clearly […]

GUT MICRO FLORA AND OBESITY

GUT MICRO FLORA AND OBESITY

Gut Micro Flora / Bacteria: ur Gut Microflora gets established in the first three years of our life from exposure and contact with our mother and others in the surrounding environment. Our microbiomes are relatively small when we are infants, but grow both in numbers and diversity as we interact with our environment. The food […]