Food & Health
Ellu Neeru
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Amratha Panaka
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Why this Cola-veri?
Written by Bhoomi Admin
For every half litre bottle of carbonated soft drink (CSD) purchased, your water footprint on the earth (the amount of water depleted) is up to 300 litres of water.
Today, 50 Indian villages suffer from severe shortage and contamination of groundwater, because of soft drink production.
It takes 442 litres of water to manufacture a one litre plastic CSD bottle.
Up to…
A Garrulous Gastronaut’s Guide
Written by Pushpi Bagchi
As urban Indians, we are spoilt for choice when it comes to the variety of food available to us in our neighbourhood supermarkets – be it fresh, processed, or packaged. The growing tendency to consume convenience foods or hire full-time cooks in our urban households is estranging us from our food.Most of us do not consider the larger impact of our food choices, and urban…
Salt to TasteIt is of the oldest known and used spices, and the African and European explorers were known to have traded an ounce of salt for an ounce of gold, and salt was literally worth its weight in gold. Unfortunately, we are today paying heavily for it – excess salt intake is related to many degenerative diseases like high blood pressure, heart disease etc.…
In modern times, we favor factory and industrial processing, which gives us the convenience of a quick meal. Processing destroys the nutrients in food rather than increasing them, and makes our food more difficult to digest. Furthermore, industrial processing depends upon products that have a negative impact on our health, such as sugar, white flour, processed and hydrogenated oils, additives, colorants, synthetic vitamins and an…
Fruits are amongst the healthiest, most delicious and natural foods that we can have. Our ancestors having eaten raw foods for almost two million years, our bodies have evolved to make best use of fruits, reminding us of our intricate yet simple and direct connection with the Earth.Human beings are the only creatures on earth who cook their foods. But nature has provided all the…
Food is the input of life force to sustain life, and it is only with awareness and love that we can we bring about an ecological balance in our bodiesThe principles for good digestion have been worked out by the Navadarshanam team, based on the teachings of the late Swami Sahajananda, who in turn learnt them from the famous naturopath, the late Laxman Sharma of…
Seed monopoly, patenting and arm-twisting by large transnational corporations in cahoots with government policies are engendering a new colonialism where we are losing our right to food sovereignty. The fact that 6 TNCs are controlling 60 to 80% of seeds, grain processing and trade in food crops is definitely leading to the disempowerment of the farmer as well as the city-dweller.Several scientists and thinkers today…
Milk, which was considered the perfect food, has now fallen from its pedestal.In India, the land of Krishna, the cowherd-God, milk is sacred. Milk is used for worship in temples and as offering at prayer time in homes. Milk is equally venerated in other countries – notably the US and Holland, where the per capita consumption is the highest in the world.We have been coaxed…
The correlation between hunger and economic growth is robustly positive - the greater the economic growth, the greater the number of people going to bed hungry. This challenges the widely held view that economic growth pulls the poor out of poverty and hunger.Hunger is keeping pace with economic growth. At a time when the economy is growing at an average of 7 to 8%, hunger…
A four-day cooking workshop at Navadarshanam in Bangalore emphasizes that healthy food can be quite deliciousIt’s only when we are pushed into a corner do we wake up and decide that we have to change. Just like any other urbanite pressed for time, I have always eaten food for its taste and presentation rather than for the nutrients present in it; if it looked and…
In this era of oil, technology and information, all of us are busy all the time. There is so much to do, so many demands from within and without, and we need all the comforts and entertainment we can get to avoid falling off the treadmill of daily work. It is also an era of specialization and division of labour. Engineers know little of social…