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One of the best ways to achieve healthy bones is a diet rich in fresh, whole foods like vegetables, which maximizes natural minerals. Fermented vegetables using special starter culture designed to optimize vitamin K2 is one of your best strategies for maintaining healthy bones and preventing bone loss New research shows eating the seeds of the fennel plant had a beneficial effect on loss of bone mineral density, as well as bone mineral content. Researchers indicated that fennel seeds show potential in preventing bone loss in postmenopausal osteoporosis I watched my little 5 foot 1 mother shrink as she grew older. Osteoporosis is a disease that baffles modern science. My friend a detail pharmacist who goes around educating doctors about the scientific research on drugs told me a amazing fact. When the scientific data is properly interpreted, only 3 women out of 100 benefit from taking the biphosphonates ( Fosamax, Actonel and others). That is startling considering the millions tak...

Prescription on a Plate is the title of my new website and also the tag I amusing for my upcoming cooking class. I will be highlighting some of my favourites.  My best medicinal tea, green protein to build your hemoglobin, cilantro chutney to detox heavy metals, making our own spice mix blend, how to make ghee which is very nourishing for the brain, how to get the most out of the benefits of walnuts. This is just a preview. I have some new ideas I want to share too. See you on Sept 21 at 10 AM Yum Yum

Turmeric has so many benefits that now people are coming into the drug store and buying empty capsules and filling them with Turmeric and taking them as medicine!!! Wow you say. That is amazing, yes and no. Life is full of paradoxes. It is most important to remember that in India where Turmeric is a staple and considered a sacred herb, children are taught to eat with turmeric at a very early age. Here in the west, most of us only have turmeric in our food if we happened to end up at an Indian restaurant on a Saturday night out. That is a big difference. So if you start loading yourself with large amounts of Turmeric it will stimulate your liver to much and could send you into a detox crisis. What I have learned is that we can start small with 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoonful a day and increase it gradually over time until we are taking a full teaspoonful a day. I cook with turmeric daily so I get my allotted amount on a daily basis mixed with other spices and unctuous ghee or olive oil. Howeve...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-eCloNSEV8&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1 Vaidya Mishra speaking on the 20 benefits of Turmeric A must see.

If you have tried many things to get your bowel function balanced and it still is not ideal then it might be time to add this delicious smoothie to your routine. Pineapple and Papaya are both known for their wonderful enzymatic action and off course prunes are famous for keeping you regular. Put them together and your have a fabulous combination for supporting your digestion and elimination. Start with 1/2 cup of cut up pineapple chunks and add about 1/4 to 1/3 of a cup of papaya and then 3-5 prunes that have been soaked and are well hydrated. Blend these 3 ingredients together in your small blender. The best time to drink/eat this smoothie is mid-afternoon or about 1/2 an hour before bed. You will notice the gentle and thorough cleansing of your digestive tract.  This combination is also beneficial for balancing your hormones.  

In the next few days I will be working long hours and will not always have access to good snacks. Working in a pharmacy I will have access to all kinds of chocolate bars and chips and pop. Not my ideal nourishment. Luckily I remembered this wonderful suggestion from my teacher. Take a small jar and put in just enough walnuts and raisins for a good snack. Cover with good spring water and take it with you. When you get hungry drain the water and eat the soaked nuts and fruits. Walnuts are a great food for the brain and they even look like the brain!!! Hmmm. Raisins are high in many nutrients especially iron and are a good source of natural sugars that are easily assimilated.  The reason we need to soak the walnuts is that they are very dense energy and this also applied to the raisin. If you can imagine a walnut has a whole tree condensed energetically within its shell. So my soaking them we make that energy more accessible for our bodies.

Joint pain.  Hips, knees and ankles - those wonderful mechanisms that allow us to move gracefully through life. We can dance, do yoga, go hiking and bend down in gratitude in front of our alter. When they get inflamed or dry they let us know. What can we do to take care of them? We can massage with Sesame oil in a clockwise fashion. I had a friend who was schedule for knee surgery. She had been an athlete all her life and in her 40's her knees started to let her know they needed help. She regularly massage her knees with sesame oil for 10-20 minutes twice a day and after 2 weeks started seeing results and within a month she did not need surgery. Also there are various herbal glyceride and herbal formulations available that support the joints. Best to talk with your Ayurvedic practitioner for recommendations.