Eating well - Healthy life

Cooking smart - For healthy life it is is important to have a wholesome diet. A wholesome diet consists of grain products, vegetables, fruits, milk products, meats and many more things. Good food is the best medicine to fight against any disease.

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Food as Medicine - It act as supplement, energy boosters, that helps to keep you lively and energetic for the whole day. Right food at right time, detoxifies the body without affecting the whole metabolism.

Various activities require different amount of calories and depending on the nature of work one should have food.

Time of consuming food : A person should take meal only when he feels hungry. Lunch should be taken early between 12 and 1P.M. this coincides with the peak Pitta period, Pitta is responsible for the digestion. Ayurveda recommends that the lunch should be the largest meal of the day. The supper should be lesser and lighter than lunch

Quantity of food : Generally half of the capacity of stomach should be filled with solids, ¼ th with liquids and rest kept empty for the free movements of body humors.

Sequence of consuming food :Madhur (sweet) rasa food like fruits are advisable to take in the bigining of meal, food with Amla and Lavana (sour and salty) rasa in the middle and Katu,Tikta,Kashay (bitter ,astringent and pungent) foods should be taken at the end of meal

Eating Well When You’re Expecting provides mums-to-be with a realistic approach to navigating healthily and deliciously through the nine months of pregnancy - at home, in the office, at Christmas, in restaurants.

Thorough chapters are devoted to nutrition, weight gain, food safety, the postpartum diet, and how to eat when trying to conceive again.

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At the heart of the book are hundreds of pressing questions every mother-to-be has: Is it true I shouldn’t eat any food cooked with alcohol? Will the caffeine in coffee cross into my baby’s bloodstream?

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Cooking Smart Food as Medicine Nutritional Information

Special Diets Meat & Fish Soy

Vitamins & supplements:

Food as Medicine - Ideally, it is suggested to have the rich fibre diet with proportionate amount of fats, carbohydrates, proteins, sodium, calcium, sugar, salt, vitamins and minerals. Here is our simple guide to balanced food that can be cooked instantly. These are some of the simple and natural ways that would help in detoxifying your body and rejuvenate the lost energy. Various health supplements and nutritional information is available here.