ABC of Health through our blogs
A for Avocados
The new superfood and hormone balancer. Avocados have always been around but recently they have become increasingly popular due to its health benefits.
B for Beans
Perhaps you would be surprised to read this as beans have a certain stigma attached to them. I believe they are not only delicious, but it is a well-known fact that they have wonderful health-giving properties.
C for Celery Juicing
Have you heard all the hype around celery juice? Celery is one of the healthiest vegetables. It can also reduce the risk of illness and provide pain relief.
D for Dark Chocolate
We all love chocolate but feel guilty about eating it. It is rare to find an individual who doesn’t like chocolates.
E for Edamame
Edamame is a delicious and nutritious heart-healthy food that anyone who is interested in healthy eating may want to consider incorporating into their diet.
F for Flowers
The Dandelion, one of the members of the famous herb or flower family is really nothing more than a big help to everyone. The remarkable growth of the Dandelion leaves can really be noticed by most anyone.
G for Glorious Greens
Green vegetables are the most commonly missing food in modern diets. Learning to incorporate dark leafy greens into the diet is essential to establishing a healthy body and immune system.
H for High-Fat Diet
Being an Indian, Hindu myself, I grew up in a small town in India, Pune. My mother always inculcated the strong values of our culture among my sister and me. However, I loved the fact that most of these values surrounded around food and festivals and more food during festivals.
I for Intuitive Eating
Intuitive eating is an approach to eating that helps build a relationship between the mind and body. An intuitarian is a term that describes a person who is able to distinguish and respond to inner body cues regarding food and drink, which could be physical and/or emotional.
J for Juice Cleanses
The terms “cleanse” and “detox” are often used in relation to health. To cleanse the body is to remove toxic environmental and dietary substances through a specific regimen. Programs that fall into this category include candida cleanses, liver cleanses, and colon cleanses among many other juice and/or food-based cleanses.
K for Knives
One of the kitchen tools that really fascinate me is to have the right fancy knife for the right food. Now, this does not mean, throw away the ones you already have. The key is to use exactly what you have in your kitchen right now, you can always purchase new things along the way.
L for Lean Belly Diet
The Lean Belly Prescription: The fast and foolproof diet and weight-loss plan from America's top urgent-care doctor was created by well-known Travis Stork, MD, along with editor of Men’s Magazine – Peter Moore. Together these two men created a
M for My Mindful Eating Tips
Building a nourishing relationship with food is as much, if not more, about how you eat than what you eat! Mindful eating means eating with intention, or purpose – in particular, to nourish both body and mind – and paying attention to current eating habits in the moment, without judgment.
N for Neat - Boosting Neat
A variety of factors can impact weight, including lifestyle. While exercise is important, so is the movement you do throughout the day – when you’re not officially “exercising.” NEAT- stands for non-exercise activity thermogenesis, and it’s basically all of the energy you expend when you’re not sleeping, eating, or “exercising.” It even includes fidgeting!
O for Over-40 Diet
After age 40, I became more intrigued towards this diet and over the last four years realized how much it was in tune with my mind and body. Now what happens is, after 40,the body begins to store fat at a higher rate making it more difficult to keep off excess weight.
P for Plant-Based Diets
The earth is covered in plants that provide living creatures with food to keep us healthy and medicine for when we are sick. It makes sense that plants are an essential part of any healthy way of eating. Even in the harshest conditions, plant life, in some form, has been a part of traditional diets.
Q for Quinoa
Quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah) has the highest nutritional profile and cooks the fastest of all grains. It’s an extremely high-energy grain and has been grown and consumed for about 8,000 years on the high plains of the Andes Mountains in South America. I personally even use it as a rice substitute with all my favorite Indian curries too.
R for Raw Food Diet
So this is what I learnt in all my findings, a raw food diet focuses on unprocessed and uncooked plant foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, dried fruit, and seaweed. The diet omits foods that are processed or significantly cooked.
S for Sleep Yourself Well
Our bodies take cues from our actions. What we eat, when we eat it, what we do, and when we do it are all part of an intricate system of signals that our brain uses to regulate all it needs to do for us to thrive and survive. Honoring these rhythms is vital to our well-being.
T for Traditional Medicinals
Many of these powerful healing medicinals were generally found in her pantry! She often narrated stories about our grandparents and ancestors who used these remedies for thousands of years and how we continue to treat ourselves even today.
U for Ultra Metabolism Diet
In The Ultrametabolism Diet, Mark Hyman, MD, introduces a diet about food choice and how it relates to nutrigenomics – the relationship between an individual’s genes and the food they eat. The objective is to understand and monitor the connection between what you eat and how you feel.
V for Vitamin D
Many of these powerful healing medicinals were generally found in her pantry! She often narrated stories about our grandparents and ancestors who used these remedies for thousands of years and how we continue to treat ourselves even today.
X for Xenoestrogens
Xenoestrogens are man-made chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system and meddle with our ability to excrete estrogen, potentially leading to estrogen dominance as well as developmental, reproductive, neurological and immune effects. To my knowledge, xenoestrogens never have the potential for positive action.
Y for Yoga of Breathing
Finding emotional relief through self-soothing, self-connection, and self-empowerment is a helpful way to curb tendencies toward food, or other unhelpful “Band-Aids.” The diaphragm is the most efficient breathing muscle, and it’s the primary muscle used in inspiration (breathing in).