I love routines!! I have always been a schedule oriented person. I may have been born that way. Or perhaps it was my mother who ingrained it into us with a routine oriented lifestyle. I'm not sure. I just know that routines seem to make life function so much more easily. When [...]
I LOVE THIS Ayurvedic proverb. It perfectly captures my personal experience. My whole life I loved to cook and I was definitely a foodie. But the choices I was making did not fit my body’s needs. I struggled with weight issues, gas, bloating, discomfort and crippling stomach aches. I was also diagnosed with [...]
I never realized that my tongue could give me a peak into what is happening inside my digestive tract. Some characteristics that tell you about your tongue include: Width Length Color (pale vs pink vs other non pink colors) Inflammation Red dots Cracks and their placement Coating (including its thickness and location) Shaking or [...]
I get asked a lot for dietary recommendations. Our western philosophy has taught us to count calories, fat, carbohydrates and protein as a means of losing weight, building muscle or achieving short term physical goals. I believe this misses the point. If we are eating properly for our constitution and addressing digestive imbalances, our [...]
Ariella's favorite new request at the dinner table…sriracha. This girl is spicy and she LOVES spicy food. Pungent taste is what we recognize as spicy or food with a kick. Of course, there are degrees and variances in pungency. Pungent taste is stimulating. It increases circulation and is warming. It thins [...]
My husband has a salt phobia. Like sugar...society has a phobia of salt because restaurant and processed foods are SO overly salted and the salt used is cheap, unhealthy table salt. That said, mineral salt...like the other 5 tastes/rasas has its place in our diet (in moderation). SALTY taste stimulates secretions. It is a [...]
I always took sour taste for granted. I guess I didn’t really care for it much and so I barely used it in my cooking. It’s valuable to incorporate all 6 tastes into our diet. Not only does it make food taste better, it also creates more balance in many aspects of our [...]
I feel like the word sweet has been demonized beyond measure. All the processed foods and sweets around us have equated the word sweet with obesity, diabetes, and almost every other health ailment possible. People are afraid of fruit. No one wants to eats carbs. But the sweet taste is very important in our [...]
Every food we consume has multiple tastes and qualities which encompass medicinal value. Our taste buds are trained to recognize whether or not we enjoy the flavor of a food when it enters our mouth. Western food philosophy has taught us to count calories and look at the fat, carbohydrate and protein content [...]
Food combining is a critical component of well being. When foods are combined with other foods that require different digestive enzymes, the body has a harder time digesting those foods. And if the body cannot digest and break down the foods we eat, it cannot nourish our bodily tissues. Those foods turn into toxins instead [...]
