“Let Food Be Thy Medicine” (Hippocrates, Father of Medicine 370- 460 BC)

“Ayurveda ( Science of Life)- Eat food by your Prakriti (Nature) To Preserve Health & Prevent Disease.”
(Origins Sushruta Samhita and Charak Samhita 600 BCE)

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        The 0ld wisdom in the healing sciences emphasized the vital role of food in the preservation of health and prevention of the disease. The new medical disorders such as Overweight, Obesity, Type2 diabetes, Heart disease, High blood pressure, Cancer, and more have become household names. It certainly was not the case 50 years back. The origins of these new food and lifestyle disease epidemics and the origins of the commercial food chain have an intimate connection. It has taken the industrial food industry 50 years to sabotage the human food chain and along with its human health. Food and Lifestyle are personal choices and in the case of growing children a parental decision. The journey to health, therefore, is in human control; it always has been. The journey to health requires humans to go back 50 years in time and resurrect the old way of eating and living concerning:

•  What to Eat

• When to Eat

• How often to Eat

• When to Wake up

• Daily Activity

        The journey to health is a work in progress of taking transformative steps with determination, never looking back. The knowledge and awareness jump-start the journey moving it in a fast forward mode.

In the recipe section, we first wish to begin with a brief message on “ What to Eat.” There are
straightforward rules about what to eat and what not to eat:

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1. Eat natural, what grows on the plants nurtured by the bioenergy of the sunlight- Vegetables, Fruits, whole grains, Lentils, Legumes, Seeds, and Nuts. Plant foods eaten in a correct balance have all the essential macronutrients and micronutrients. Plant foods are the only foods which carry disease-fighting antioxidants (see the section of Practical Nutrition on this website). Animal-based foods and commercial foods have zero antioxidants. There are currently 600 million vegans in the world, and their number is growing fast ( see the youtube video of Philip Wollen's message on this website). Plant foods are the solution to sustaining human health, eliminating global hunger, and creating sustainable planet earth for future generations

2. Eat-in your cultural tradition—The foods eaten in the cultural tradition do not cause overweight and obesity. Adoption of western-style fast and preprepared junk meals have done considerable damage to the health of Indian city dwellers. Even though traditional Indian foods 50 years back were rich in carbohydrates ( 60-65%), these carbohydrates were mostly plant-based complex carbohydrates, which did not create disease-producing high blood sugar levels. The quality of carbohydrates has now shifted to highly refined disease-producing carbohydrates such as refined wheat flour and refined sugars. The traditional cooking oils were cold compressed natural oils and ghee. These got replaced with disease-producing factory-made refined seed oils and transfats. Going back to old cultural tradition concerning the quality of food, and the eating habits of 2-3 meals a day will reverse the obesity epidemic.

3. Keep away from four great modern food poisons—These are:

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Refined White Sugar and Sugary drinks
Refined milled wheat flour and maida
Refined Oils made in factories
Packaged foods and junk fast foods rich in salt, sugar, and refined fats.

        Fifty years back, the traditional Indian meals across all the ethnic culture did not include the above food poisons. So the simple message to reclaim health is to take back the kitchens and restart the ancestral tradition of cooking healthy meals. The hurdle of getting healthy ingredients remains, but human ingenuity has always succeeded. The global movement of organic farming and organic foods unknown 10 -15 years back is fast gathering momentum. It is the consumers who chart the course for what food manufacturers do :

“If we do not buy, they cannot make and sell.”

        This recipe section cannot cover the vast array of ethnic recipes used across the Indian subcontinent. The recipe section is about sharing some healthy recipes so that it will be an ongoing work in progress. Anyone with a healthy recipe in mind can contribute, and the recipe will get credited to their name.

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