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 [...]
STEPS YOU CAN TAKE RIGHT NOW TO IMPROVE DIGESTION Improving digestion can be very simple. With the tweak of a few minor lifestyle practices, you can be on your way to better digestion immediately! In Ayurveda, digestion is the key to optimal health. All health starts in the digestive tract. All disease [...]
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 [...]
