Home made Teas to boost immunity

1. Boil a cup of water. Add a 1/4 tsp of turmeric and a 1/4 tsp of black pepper to the boiling water. Add 1/2 tsp of organic natural honey to the above mix when luke warm. This tea is good to boost your immunity when taken in the morning.
2. Boil a cup of water with 1/4 tsp ginger and 1 teaspoon lemon juice with palm sugar. This tea aids in digestion and is also a good immunity booster as well.It also helps to reduce nausea.
3. Boil a cup of water with 1/4 tsp each of ginger, garlic and black cumin and drink the tea in empty stomach as an immune booster.
4. Boil a cup of water with dry ginger, long Indian pepper ( thipili), peppercorns and palm jaggery and take this tea for sore throat, cold, cough and congestion.

All the above teas were from my mother in law, my mom and friends. I found them really helpful and so easy to make with home ingredients so thought of sharing it. I haven’t made them everyday yet but used them every now and then.

Better Environment Better Health

For our sake we should care about our environment. This documentary  improves our awareness to the environment that surrounds us. We all know we need to eat nutritious food to stay healthy and enjoy our life. To be healthy we need awareness and we cannot be ignorant and this documentary opens up a whole new awareness about the disadvantages of industrial farming and GMOs. Organically grown food is the best. A must watch for all of us. Please click on the link below.

https://grow.foodrevolution.org/screening/

Green Thai Curry

Source: Green Thai Curry

To eat more vegetables of different color range to keep you healthy try the above recipe. Hope you will enjoy eating the vegetables with this flavorful healthy curry.

7 layer burrito – home made

Home Made 7 Layer Burrito Ingredients: Pinto beans 1 cup, water 2 cups, four cheese shredded, lettuce cut into shreds, salsa, avacado 2, organic rice, burrito wrap (made with whole grain wheat  int…

Source: 7 layer burrito – home made

Homemade Indian Flat Bread Parota & Kurma

Ingredients For Parota ( Indian flat bread)     100% whole grain wheat flour  3 cups 3 tbsp olive oil or sesame oil water about 1 cup Salt to taste For Cauliflower – Potato Malaysian Kurma 2.…

Source: Homemade Indian Flat Bread Parota & Kurma

Rice Milk and Kefir from black rice

1. Soak 1 cup black rice for 8 hours and drain the excess water.
2. Cook the soaked rice in a rice cooker with 2 1/2 to 3 cups water.
3. Let the cooked rice cool down to room temperature.
4. Add the cooked rice to a powerful blender with additional water about 4 cups.
5. Blend it and strain it. Black rice milk is ready. Chill it in the refrigerator if you like it cold. Add palm sugar or raw sugar to sweeten it if you like.
6. Add a 1/4 tsp of probiotic powder and a tablespoon of yogurt to the warm rice milk and let it sit for 6 hours.
7. Rice kefir is ready to enjoy.

People or children who are sensitive or allergic to dairy can switch to a healthy tasty antioxidant rich black rice milk. Sensitivity to diary can cause mild symptoms like stomach upset, bloating, gastritis, congestion and/or allergic reactions like ear infections, severe congestion leading to wheezing or upper respiratory illness. I have personally seen tremendous improvement from ear infections from stopping cow’s milk and cheese for my son.

Also see the link that follows to see what research says about diary’s effects on health.

 

Amla – Nellikkai – Indian Gooseberry as a home remedy.

Amla Indian gooseberry is considered king of fruits and has been used in Indian Ayurvedic medicine. The reason is it called king of fruits is because it is believed to not to lose its potency in any form cooked or raw. It is considered a cure all for most ailments like leaky gut syndrome, cholesterol, diabetes, powerful antioxidant has vitamin c about 10 oranges so enhances your immunity and is good for the hair, so try to take just one gooseberry everyday to reap its benefits for 3 months. It may taste sour but drink a glass of water after eating one and the water tastes deliciously sweet.

Recent research has proven amla  as a cure for diabetes. Here is the interesting link http://nutritionfacts.org/video/amla-versus-diabetes/

 

Vegan Diet seems to be the best!

In my quest for cure and prevention I have been reading a lot about nutrition and experimenting with some recipes at home . It looks like vegan diet does offer some of the best prevention of non communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cancer, dementia, Alzheimers, heart disease etc.

Some of the best resources in how to prevent and even reverse these diseases are

1. Fit for life by Harvey Diamond
2. Reversing Heart Disease by Dr. Dean Ornish
3. NutritionFacts.org by Dr.Michael Greger
4. Fibroid tumors and Endometriosis by Dr. Susan M Lark 

Even if people are vegetarians or non-vegetarians some of the food combinations that should be used or not used is explained in Fit for Life. For example combining fruits with any dairy causes gas problems like making milk shakes with fruits is not at all a good idea. You can experience this personally testing on your self. Eating fruits in empty stomach is the best option.Meat and dairy should not be combined as well as carbohydrate and dairy.

One exception in vegan diet is you can take fish oil supplement or flax oil for your Omega-3 which is very important to your brain health. The next is butter or clarified butter and Kefir also buttermilk that is fermented with probiotic cultures which keeps the gut healthy. Healthy gut bacteria helps in B12 production and absorption in the body which in turn avoids B12 deficient anemia. There is a possibility of B6 deficiency as well if B12 deficiency exist. So one thing could lead to chain of reactions, hence paying attention to how to eat and when to eat is as important as our daily exercise and jobs.

 

 

Kid prepared, approved and tested Green Juice!

A great way to start a kid on a healthy path is to let them prepare their green juice and drink it. My daughter prepared this healthy juice by cleaning and cutting longitudinally the organic carrots (8-9), kale (3-4 handfuls), cilantro (1/2 bunch)and apples (2) and running it through the twin gear juicer of course with supervision. She loved it and it is the first time she drank without making a fuss. Glad it worked out.

Green juices create an alkaline state in the body that promotes health. My kids wanted to be cured of their sore throat and congestion as fast as possible and they decided to go for it. Hope this will become your family’s favorite receipe. Drink this for a healthy immune system and keen eyesight.

Nutritional Tips

I like to share some nutritional tips that worked for me.

1. Eat your fruits in empty stomach. Fruits that are more juicy stay in the stomach for about 15 -20 mins and pass to the intestine. So it is best to eat them alone and not combine with any other carbs, proteins or fats.

2. To avoid ear infections, rashes, gastric trouble, allergies, asthma, eczema it is best to avoid cow’s milk.

3. Combining carbs (especially grains) with cow’s milk/cheese is not a good idea if you have milk allergy or even sensitivity.

4. Vegetables that are close to being eaten fresh/raw and gently cooked on stove tops are more nutritious than any kind of processed ones.

5. Steam on stove tops and avoid microwave.

6. Green juices need not have asparagus, rhubarb and Spinach as they can cause build up of oxalic acid (may cause kidney stones) and better to eat cooked not raw.