With last week’s blog, and being aware of the things mentioned in it, many of you must be on the mode of rethinking on your idea of drinking milk. But one more part needs clarification which is on the rise these days – Tetra Pack milk or long-lasting milk. How is the idea of taking packs together from store shelf to your kitchen shelf? So, you don’t even need to go to store frequently! Or get some milk powder and get the fresh milk every time? No! it’s an absolute No. These k

Moving through the aisles of supermarket makes me wonder about the different kinds of ‘Milk’ (e.g. Rice, Soy, Coconut, Almond) we get these days. Is this a sign of progress or an alarming bell for health of people? Let’s discuss… Milk is supposed to be a Pale liquid produced by mammary glands and most of the milk that we get today do not stand to this definition. Here itself you get depth of the situation. Looking from Ayurved’s point of view; milk is the by-product (i.e. upd

Ayurveda is a spiritual philosophy – not a science What distinguishes Ayurveda from other systems is that it has a well-defined conceptual framework that is consistent throughout the ages. In conceptual base, it was perhaps highly evolved and far ahead of its time. It is medical systems to advocate an integrated approach towards matters of health and disease. Unfortunately, many people today sensationalize the spiritual contents present in the Ayurveda texts, resulting in a w

Do we get the same benefits of sleep when we sleep during day instead of night? No. All the benefits of sleep discussed in the previous article are only regarding sleeping at night. Ayurveda has never encouraged day sleeping. According to Ayurveda day sleeping increases Kapha & Pitta. It is a major reason for Agni mandya i.e disturbed digestive power. Also, it is listed as cause in diseases like Diabetes, Obesity, chronic indigestion etc. One cannot sleep peacefully at night

Restful sleep is the foundation of Physical and Mental health. Sleep helps balance your body and your emotions. Let’s go with another aspect from the 3 pillars of Ayurveda, that is Sleep. ‘I just can’t keep myself awake through the entire day’, doesn’t this sound very familar to you? Actually, it shouldn’t, but number of people with this complaint is increasing day by day. They feel sleeping during the day will help them if they don’t get enough sleep at night and that makes

All of us must have heard dozens of times from our elders regarding setting up table for lunch or dinner. There is a pattern to set this table in a particular way so as to ease the process of eating food. Similarly, today we are discussing these rules regarding having food. You might realize some major things among the below were a part of your diet routine just a few years back. Though these have been side lined due to some constraints of today’s life we can always move back

Thank you for all the e-mails, and messages. Also apologies to all my readers for missing out on our regular upload day of Wednesday. I have been receiving a lot of doubts and queries off late and to clarify them, I am writing this blog which can be a continuation or a part 2 of the blog I wrote a couple of months ago. Misconception: Ayurveda restricts whatever I like! Ha ha ha ! May be because you have been overeating your favorite food or at a wrong timing. Maybe you will b

Refrigerated food is very commonly used these days. Refrigerators are not just used for storing the excess food but for freezing some of it as well. Specially in today’s fast life people take options of cooking on weekends only for the week ahead. Does this really help us in our health matters? Let’s have a look at it 1) Nutrition Refrigerator stores food because of its low temperature. But does that actually maintain the quality of food? NO, it doesn’t. Every food stuff has

BATH: A very common and usual thing for most of us. Yes, most of us. As these days we hear many people saying they don’t have enough time for a bath in morning hours. But Ayurved specially says to have bath in morning and that too before you consume your meal. Apart from making us fresh it also improving circulation and removing sweat. Bathing every day has much more impact on our lives. It is very important to not have shower over our heads every day, it reduces the strength

As you all know by now aim of Ayurved is to help you in maintaining your health along with treating diseases, today’s topic is related with maintaining one’s good health. Dinacharya is a daily routine for all healthy people. It includes some very important aspects to help us recover from daily stress as well as make us more capable to handle our daily schedule (which is no doubt very busy and hectic). It includes various aspects and its individual importance. For example. ris