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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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Is Meat Cooked with High Heat 🔥Cancerous ?!

It’s summer BBQ season! Just make sure you know the healthiest and most Ayurvedic way to prepare your grillables. Ayurvedic Cooking Principles, the National Cancer Institute, and Meat As you head out for that summer BBQ , a quick reminder that in Ayurveda all foods should be cooked gently on low heat. And now modern Western science backs up this ancient practice . The National Cancer Institute  at the National Institutes of Health has reported on the risks of cooking meat at high temperatures. This is because when meat from the muscle of beef, pork, fish, and poultry are cooked using high temperatures, cancer -causing heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are formed. HCAs and PAHs have been found to be mutagenic , meaning they cause changes in DNA that may increase the risk of cancer . The Science Behind Cooking Meat The National Cancer Institute suggests that cooking time, the type and temperature of heat used, the type of meat, and the method ...
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6 Ways to Access Pitta’s Gifts this Summer 🌞 (Banyan Botanicals)

As summer arrives, the fire element increases around us and within us. The air is warm, the sun is shining bright, and energy is high. This is the season of pitta dosha. Pitta is responsible for focus, determination, passion, discernment, organization, and confidence.  These energies promote excellent follow through, enabling us to get things done and to do them well.  When pitta is burning bright and balanced, we have access to all the tools within that allow us to vision, strategize, and generate, while orienting toward solutions and creating systems with relative ease. Think about how the smallest spark can quickly burst into a flame—this is how the element of fire within can transform an idea into an action.  Pitta brings light, helping us see clearly what needs to happen, which is why qualities like focus and organization become more readily available under the influence of this element.  The generative and transformative powers of fire are especial...
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Ayurveda & Grief : 5 Self-CareTips To Help Your Heart Feel Lighter 💝

Navigating loss and coming out the other side isn’t an easy journey. Here are 5 self-care Ayurvedic tips to help your heart feel lighter. Grief  and bereavement are natural in the course of life; whether it is because of a death, chronic illness, losing a job, divorce, moving, or any other loss...   Currently, the world was grappling with a tough pandemic and our collective grief will take a while to heal. The bereavement of  loved ones dying  may be harder because we can’t comfort them in person, have proper funeral rituals and physical social support systems. People are also grieving the loss of their  way of life , loss of livelihood, illness, or caretaking of the sick. The  stages of grief  have been documented but grief is not a linear process and affects everyone differently. It is not considered an illness per se but  prolonged grief  can trigger depression, anxiety, trauma, and impact physical health and  immunity .   T...
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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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