It is waste of money and ‘good’ taste to cook these leaves or tubers. The vitamins contained in these vegetables are wholly or partially lost in cooking. Take up any modern text-book on food or vitamins, and you would find
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
In a small Italian town, hundreds of years ago, a small business owner owed a large sum of money to a loan-shark. The loan-shark was a very old, unattractive looking guy that just so happened to fancy the business owner’s
Organic food is safer, more nutritious, and often better tasting than non-organic food. And organic production is better for the environment and kinder to animals. For the last some decades we have been hearing a lot about the benefits of
Meditation is not a business transaction or a mere set of procedures. It is a partnership with the Divine. Techniques done mechanically, without love or devotion may inhibit our receptivity. When we meditate and throughout our day, we should offer
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.
