Friday 30 March 2018

Gut Recharge Guidelines.



Supercharge your gut with our guidelines.

These guidelines have to be followed for minimum 5 days. These guidelines will help in reducing inflammation around the gut and improve efficiency to digest, assimilate and absorb the nutrients, which will improve your immunity, reduce cravings, bloating, water retention and much more.

Here are our Nutribullets for the next few days:

1.   Include Prebiotic Foods:
Banana, homemade ghee and white butter, coconut oil, boiled potato,  rice, sweet potato in your diet.
Suggest start your day with banana, cook only in ghee or white butter.
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2.   Include Probiotic foods:
Home-made curd, water-based pickles, traditional buttermilk, carrot kanji, idli, dosa , dhokla, sanna’s, handvo and any fermented food products for next 5 days. Make sure not to use eno or baking soda in dhokla or idli.
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3.   Include anti-inflammatory foods such as turmeric, ginger, fatty fish or fish oils, walnuts, coconut oil, beetroots, celery (less than 5cm stalk more than 5 will aggravate), basil seeds (sabja), chia seeds. a
4.   Avoid Highly Processed / Packaged Foods- anything factory made or that comes out of a packet.
(Such as Sausage, Deli-Meats – pepperoni, ham, salami, Pasta, Biscuit, chips, Namkeens, even diet bhels, sevs etc.)
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5.    Avoid Sugars and Artificial Sweeteners. a
6.    No Milk – however fermented milk products such as buttermilk, dahi or any other variants are allowed. a
7.    Avoid Alcohol. a
8.    Avoid Chicken. a
9.    Avoid unnecessary Antacids/ Supplements. a
10. No raw foods post 4pm this includes salads, raw veg and fruit. Instead eat yourvegetables stewed or steamed.

Tuesday 27 March 2018

Banana tree nature’s gift for good.


Banana tree unlike other trees have advantages of different parts of it. To know about it, Keep Reading to check out what It has got….

 To know about this keep scrolling….

1.       Banana Magic/ Eatsome Banana
Contains Potassium which Supports heart health, Energy booster for post work out session, being rich in fibre it is Good for digestive health, contains tryptophan and helps increase serotonin levels (i.e. a feel good hormone) that helps overcoming depression.

You can simply have it naturally or use it in sweet dishes such as sheera, cakes, fruit salads etc.

2.       Budding Floret/Banana Flower/Banana Blossom
Wards of infection, reduces menstrual flow, reduces free radical activity, boosts moods , reduces anxiety, increases milk content of nursing mothers or improves lactation of Nursing mothers, keeps sugar levels in check, cures Anaemia, good for weight loss.

Culinary Use:
Can be used in salads, soups, one can also make sabji, use it in stirred fry veggies or simply make a decoction of it.

3.       Banana leaf
From a serving plate to much more…

In some parts of the world it is a tradition to serve food on Banana leaf, you can also use this Nature’s Natural food wrapper instead of synthetic man- made plastic closed containers, foils etc. furthermore you can this leaf for cooking purpose one of the most famous dish called as “Macher Paturi” is a traditional Bengali dish were usually betki fish pieces are marinated in a spiced mustard paste, wrapped in banana leaf individually and then slow cooked till tender. Hence, becomes good recipe to keep the oil away from cooking. So you can try this with your own fish choice which along with a healthy cooking choice gives a distant essence to the food.

Giloy – The Supernatural Herb/ Wonder herb


Being prestigiously known as “Amrita” which means (root of immortality), Giloy is also known as giloya/Guduchi in Hindi, and comes with a lot of curative properties… let us understand which are the one’s…

To know keep reading/scrolling….

1.       Immunity : The warrior
Removes toxins, blood purifier, fights bacteria that causes diseases and combats liver diseases and UTI.

2.       Tummy friendly
Improves digestion and treats bowel related issues such as gastritis, intestinal colic, chronic diarrhoea.

3.       Fever cure
Reduces signs and symptoms of several fevers such as dengue, swine flu, Malaria.

4.       Sweet beat
Keeps blood sugar levels in control.

5.       Mind Tonic!!
Reduces anxiety and stress as well as boosts memory

6.       Breathe in…
Being Anti –inflammatory it reduces respiratory problems such as cold, cough, tonsils

7.       Flawless ageing
Helps reduce dark spots, pimples, fine lines and wrinkles. 

8.       Sparkling Eyes…
It helps boost vision clarity

9.       Healthy joints
Reduces inflammation thereby reducing the signs of pain in Rheumatoid arthritis, gout, arthritis.


GILOY DECOCTION RECIPE

Ingredients:
Giloy leaves: Few
Water : 400ml

Method:

Take few Giloy leaves, wash it properly. Now Boil around 400 ml of water in a vessel, once it boils turn off the gas and add the leaves and keep it for 5-10 minutes with a closed lid, Filter the decoction and have 10-15ml of this twice daily.