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Balanced Eating: A Guide to a Healthy Ramadan Diet 🌙

By Dr Rajarshi Mitra Maintaining a balanced diet during Ramadan is essential for your overall health and well-being. This guide, crafted by Dr. Rajarshi Mitra, a Laparoscopic Surgeon in Abu Dhabi, provides practical tips and advice on how to eat healthily during Ramadan, including what to eat during Suhoor and Iftar to stay energized and nourished throughout the holy month. Read on to discover how you can observe Ramadan while prioritizing your health. Understanding Balanced Eating for a Healthy Ramadan Diet What Does Balanced Eating Mean During Ramadan? As Dr. Rajarshi Mitra, a Laparoscopic Surgeon in Abu Dhabi with extensive experience in patient care, I often emphasize the importance of balanced eating, especially during Ramadan. Balanced eating during Ramadan means consuming a variety of foods from all food groups – carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals – in appropriate proportions. This helps ensure you receive all the necessary nutrients to maintain energy leve...
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Daily Routine In Winter ⛄

“Each morning, we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” – Anonymous.             Do you ever feel like you’re running around all day and don’t have time for yourself? Or is it hard to get out of bed? A daily routine is very important in Ayurveda to help regulate and balance you. It is necessary to optimize your health on a physical, mental, and emotional level. A daily routine aids in balancing your Dosha and not feeling stressed . It can aid your digestion from absorption to assimilation of food to not build up Ama (toxins)  in our fat cells. Having a daily routine is essential for the body and mind. It can help keep a positive attitude, happiness, and relaxation.             Your body is a clock, made up of smaller turning gears. Each of these gears are your organs. It is valuable to oil the gears of the clock to have it optimally functioning and not run out of batteries.       ...
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Winter Essential Herbs

Why herbs? Herbs are an integral part in our Ayurvedic practice.  They are powerful tools that help with healing the mind and addressing emotions .  They have the ability to make us more open to change, calm anger and create better quality communication.  Herbs aid the body in healing the root causes of symptoms, and are a holistic and natural healing way to enhance the body’s natural functions. There are many ways to consume herbs: in tea, with ghee and honey, in pill form or just with water.    As the seasons change from Autumn ( Vata ) to Winter ( Vata  and  Kapha ), consider adding these herbs into your life.    Which herbs? Amla  (Indian Gooseberry) Amla  is derived from the tree Amalaki, which originates from the foothills of the Himalayas. Amla is beneficial for the Winter season due to its stable and high Vitamin C content, and is a natural antioxidant and anti inflammatory. 1-2 grams of  Amla ...
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Cold and Flu on the Rise .. How to Prepare ?

Maybe your daughter got off the bus looking pale and feverish. Or maybe you feel a scratchy throat and a stuffy nose coming on. Whatever the symptoms, you expect a lot of sniffles and coughs this week. Before the virus knocks you and your family out, try these tips to prepare for colds and flu . If you're lucky, they may also prevent at least some of your family from getting sick. Stock up on supplies .  Be ready before cold and flu season starts. Load up on tissues, hand soap, hand sanitizer, and paper towels. Have extra masks on hand, as they're proven to protect against the spread of viruses. Consider picking up a few distractions in case your kids get sick, like puzzles, coloring books, or DVDs. Check your medicine cabinet .  Make sure it contains pain relievers, fever reducers, and any other medications you use when your family is fighting colds or the flu , like decongestants or cough syrups . Review the correct doses based on age and weight. Check to see if any medicat...
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Welcoming Winter ❄⛄

 As we celebrate the  new year  we also welcome the winter! This the season for citrus, soups, blankets, and all things that keep you warm. Reflection is another common theme for this part of the year. The long, extended nights encourage us indoors. This “hibernation” embraces subtleties of  stillness  and rest. This quietness guides the individual, or the soul, to go inwards too. What will a soul discover as it redirects its energy into the last unfurling tendrils of the year?  From an Ayurvedic perspective,  this time of year .balances between heavy kapha qualities and the company of vata. The increased rain and snow, and overall moisture, embodies a heaviness that the kapha season is most known for. Along with the heaviness, cold, and sometimes dry qualities (depending on your geographic location), intensify the ever moving vata. Bolstering your diet and lifestyle are essential so that you don’t fall into an excess or depletion in either of these do...
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Balancing Vata & Kapha During Rainy Weather

Although we are still in Vata season until the early spring comes around, Kapha dosha has been present with this rainy weather. It is still cold and windy, but moist & wet have momentarily replaced the dry quality of Vata season . Vata and Kapha are opposites and we often use the qualities of Vata to balance Kapha and vice versa. We can make intuitive decisions and look at the few similarities of these doshas to live in harmony with the seasons. So how do we keep a balance when both of these doshas are elevated? Lets compare Vata and Kapha: Vata :  ether + air. Gunas (qualities):  dry, light, mobile, cold, rough, subtle, clear Kapha :  water + earth. Gunas:  moist, heavy, cold, slow, oily, liquid, smooth, dense, soft, static, cloudy, hard, gross Vata and Kapha both are cold, so the first thing we can do the pacify this dosha is to stay warm! Staying warm refers to clothing, food, spices, exercise and meal times. Keep the head and neck warm with a scarf and hat a...
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How To Improve The Quality Of Your Life ?

Do you wish you could be alive like this every day? Instead, do you find your body and mind drooping at sunrise as well as sunset? Are you feeling desultory and uninspired? Is the rat race taking a toll on your life? If you said yes to any of these questions, you might want to consider changing or tweaking some aspects of your life. Before you burn and crash, learn  how to improve  the  quality of  your  life . In 2013, British business group Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked Switzerland as the country where quality of life is best, followed by Australia and Norway. The EIU’s  ‘Quality of Life index’ , (now re-named ‘Where-to-be-born index’), analyzes data from 80 countries. This data takes into account life expectancy, material well-being, community life, climate, political freedom, gender equality and job security. What constitutes a good life for you? Wealth, health, education, designation, qualification, relationships, perhaps? No doubt these par...
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Natural Home Remedies For Minor Burns 🔥

Natural Home remedies for Burns The use of natural remedies given below can be highly effective in managing such minor burns. These remedies are aimed at promoting healing of the damaged skin tissues and minimizing pain. Raw Potato Raw potato can be used to treat minor skin burns. It possesses soothing properties, which help in providing relief from the burning sensation caused by burns. It also acts as an anti-inflammatory agent and reduces redness and inflammation of the skin. It can also reduce the chances of having blisters. Research has proved the beneficial effect of raw potato in the management of minor burns. The histological examination of the burnt area and clinical studies made on the comparable burn wounds treated with either peel of boiled potato affixed to gauze bandages or just gauze dressings showed that the patients treated with raw potato had a faster rate of recovery from the symptoms. It was found that the usage of the potato peel dressing eliminated or reduced desi...
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Spring Detox Smoothie

When spring arrives, I can't help but think about cleaning up my eating habits. After all, spring detox is a thing (along with spring cleaning, which technically is a detox for your home). That's why I’m sharing with you a smoothie packed with nutrients your body will love. Drink it in the morning and you'll give your body a much-needed boost of energy to get you through the day. Ingredient Breakdown: Why Each One Matters  Before I get to the actual recipe, I'd like to shine the spotlight on each individual ingredient used in this smoothie. You'll quickly see why this is a great spring detox smoothie worth drinking. Green Tea Not only is  green tea tasty to drink on its own, but it's also full of health benefits. It's high in antioxidants and contains a large amount of catechins, polyphenolic compounds that are thought to exert numerous protective effects, ...
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Ayurveda for Moving into Spring 🌺

     According to Ayurveda, one of the keys to maintaining health is to practice ritucharya—seasonal routines. Adjusting our daily self-care rituals to seasonal changes helps us maintain balance and reminds us that we are a part of the natural world. Spring is ruled by the kapha dosha , whose qualities are heavy, cool, soft, dense, stable, solid, and cloudy. To adjust for the season , consider the following practices: Wake with the sunrise . One of the best practices to minimize the heavy quality of kapha in the mind and body is to wake with the sun (around 5:30 am this time of year). Dawn is ruled by vata and is light, clear, and subtle. Get moving. When kapha is dominant in the day, the muscles are strongest between 6:00 and 10:00 am. Get outside for a brisk walk or do some vigorous yoga to melt away excess kapha. Kapalabhati pranayama is a great way to stoke the fires of digestion. Eat lighter foods. In the winter months, we naturally gravitate to...
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