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Its ability to digest food is highest between 7 am to 10 am, and many of us give it chai, coffee, cigarettes instead.
A relaxed state of mind is the best preparation for any indulgence.
Paneer paratha is way richer in nutrients, fibre, antioxidants, essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, minerals like calcium, etc. So maybe eating a paneer paratha is equal to eating 2 to 3 slices of pizza, in terms of calories. But compare the nutrients. A pizza is ‘empty’, darling. Another of my favourite
Bottom line: when it comes to food think nutrients, not calories.
What this means is that even if you fill up on a lot of low GI food, its effect on your body will be similar to eating a small portion of high GI food.
Carbs that retain their fibre are low on GI;
Other low GI foods are; jowar, barley, bajra, nachni, legumes, dals, wholewheat. All sweets, biscuits, pizzas, processed juices, sherbets, jams and jellies are high on GI because they have no fibre.
Your body can take high GI food only after exercise, when your body needs instant sugar.
one thing that will turn exercise into an anti ageing activity is protein.
Fat and carbohydrate can both provide us with energy but cannot do the repair and recovery work that protein does for us.
I would go to the extent of saying that if you can’t arrange for your post workout meal to have protein and high GI carb, you are better off not working out.
When too much of protein is consumed at one time, it doesn’t get stacked away for future use, instead it is converted to fat by a process called deamination.
Whatever source you choose, veg, non-veg or a supplement, know that without a balanced base line diet, protein by itself will only lead to irritability, sleeplessness, constipation, mood swings, and muscle catabolism or wasting.
When we are deprived of a nutrient like protein, weight loss occurs only because the body breaks down its muscle to make up for the resultant lack of amino acids.
Our protein requirement stands roughly at 1 gram per kilo of body weight. So if you are a 60 kilo individual you will need 60 grams of protein a day.
Increasing activity without increasing protein only leads to muscle wasting—and now I had totally experienced the reality of this.
It is for this reason that I ask my clients to avoid red meat (too much of saturated fats) or at least restrict it to no more than once a week.
There are eight IAAs and we should have all of these IAAs in our main meals.
Undercooked protein is a disaster.
but particularly to protein as it’s the toughest nutrient to digest.
There is enough evidence to show that the human digestive system is better suited for vegetarian food. Moreover, vegetarian eating is said to reduce world food problems.
time. Remember the golden rule, just fill half your stomach at one time.
Fat is stored as adipose tissue in the body from where energy can be used in these extreme cases.
It is the only nutrient that can help us survive through the toughest phases of our life.
9 calories per gram. Carbs and proteins provide only 4 calories per gram.
(more than 60% of the brain is composed of fat),
As a general rule, the fats in animal fats are tough on the body, while the ones found in dairy products are easily absorbed.
that foods with invisible fat are full of the bad fat, trans fat, which is responsible for causing heart attacks, insulin insensitivity, etc.
Preferably different kinds of oil. So if you cooked lunch in peanut oil, try soy or safflower oil for dinner.
Make sure you have at least 1 teaspoon of homemade ghee a day, and have it guilt free. Ghee shall bless thou too.
Most animals can make their own vitamin C: the human body however cannot.
Vitamin C can be easily lost by something as simple as cutting fruits and vegetables. We lose it more when we keep them covered in a refrigerator. So anything that increases exposure of fruits and vegetables can lead to almost 90% loss of vitamin C.
PMS and bad moods can be prevented with a good supply of vitamin B just before your periods.
For lustrous hair and pink nails look to B for help.
A diet that is high in processed foods, caffeine, alcohol, sugar and sodium reduces calcium absorption.
calcium citrate or lactate (soluble in form) compound is absorbed much better by the human body than the popular calcium carbonate or phosphate supplements.
For iron to be absorbed effectively, we need adequate amounts of vitamin C and B (specifically B12) in our body.
The best strategy to improve iron intake is not to take iron supplements, but instead to create an environment in the body which will encourage iron absorption.
Reduce your intake of sweets and caffeine, and increase vitamins C and B, in addition to drinking adequate amounts of water.
In an ideal world, you shouldn’t be vying for a bigger house, bigger car, trophy husband or wife, and should be content with all that you have. Greed, anger, lust, hatred, jealousy shouldn’t even touch you. You should be growing your own food, milking your own cow, waking up with the sunrise, sleeping just after sunset.
If you think that taking supplements is being unnatural, living like this, you are just being a hollow idiot.
Because everything you eat is locally grown and your state of mind is calm, peaceful, content.
Himalayan locals eat so much more fibre than we do.
Increase in age, inactivity and stress dulls our thirst mechanism and also lowers the water reserve in our body.
This drop in body weight is not reduction of body fat but loss of all important water.
How much water should you drink? Drink enough so that your urine is always crystal clear, not light yellow, dark yellow or reddish. There are many ways in which water escapes from the body— urine, excretion, sweat, breathing. The only way to hydrate ourselves is by sipping water all the time and by eating wholesome unprocessed food.
In fact drink water all the time, sip by sip, swirl it in your mouth like a good wine and let it move down your throat into your stomach. Relish every sip of it.
Honey, being high in fructose, is not good for those who are insulin insensitive or have high triglyceride or LDL levels. So, do check before you start to have it regularly; it’s not right for everyone.
Tanvi Azmi