Healthy Woman is Healthy Family

I constantly keep hearing from people how Indian food is unhealthy and how it makes you fat and sick. You should have this food and not have that food etc.  Little do they know that it’s not the food, but the way they have it that makes them fat and sick. As suggested by Rujuta , think of how food was eaten by our dadi, nani and follow those rules. Why is it when we are eating the same food as they ate and they were fine and we getting fat and sick?   Below are few points that have affects us when it comes to food. 1)      The environment conditions. This is something we cannot control until and unless you shift to a clean place with pure air 2)      The way food is grown including pesticides and chemicals in our food. We can choose to have organic food and that is the reason organic is the new fashion. 3)      The quality of food or say prana value has changed and you can measure that based...

Food or Calorie? How do you define food? It is defined as any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth. How is food seen today? merely as pure carbs, protein, fat and calories. Can you see your body in isolation as a skeleton, or mass or nerves of hair etc.? How can you look at food like this? There will be foods which have more of any of these as majors and others as minors. Also, the way we Indians eat food is not in isolation, like we combine rice with daal, roti with subzi and dahi etc. makes it a complete meal. Let’s start with a fruit or vegetable. It has nutrients and each fruit in itself has those specific nutrients which help satisfy human body’s certain needs. How can you just see it as a calorie and ignore it? Next, what do you typically have in a breakfast in India? Poha, upma, paratha, dahi, pickle etc.? Can you tell me if any of these is only carbs or proteins or fats? Ou...