Rice is the most important cereal grain in the diet of more than half of the human race. It is used especially in the wettest parts of the world. It has never found much favour in the United States but
You ask about food values. Data on this point are being rapidly gathered here and elsewhere in India, and I hope that at no very distant period an authoritative book or pamphlet giving the chemical composition, vitamin potency, etc. of
I dealt with rice. Let us now take up wheat. It is the second most important article of diet, if not the first. From the nutritive standpoint, it is the king of cereals. By itself, it is more perfect than
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was undoubtedly one of the wisest men ever to roam the earth and even had great insight as far as food was concerned. In his book Key to Health he said: “Whilst it is true that man
There are two major kinds of pains: physical and mental. Both are caused by vikriti or imbalance at physical and mental levels. Mental pain can give rise to physical and vice versa. The constant imbalance gives rise to the formation
A lot of people reach for energy bars when they want a quick boost of strength during the day. Regular energy bars tend to spike your blood sugar levels, leading to a false high that’s followed by an energy crash.
The masculine energy has been ruling the world and the feminine energy has been yielding to its dominance. This has been the number one dis-order in the world and there seems to be no hope of any balance. We see
Charaka said The root cause of the derangement of all is unrighteousness or adharmsa. That arises from misdeeds from a previous life or this life, but the source of both is pragya aparadha (intellectual error) [unrighteousness]… When the heads of
One friend has asked, “There is so much corruption, so much bribery, so much favoritism going on in the present capitalism! Do you support this as well? This bribery, this corruption, this favoritism is not because of capitalism. Its causes
The Bhagavad Gita lays a lot of emphasis on the impact of gunas on the human mind. It says,“karmanah sukrtasyāhuh sāttvikah nirmalah phalam, rajasas tu phalam duhkham ajñānam tamasah phalam”. (Chapter 14, Shloka 16) “They say that the fruit of
