Terrific Turmeric
Like the orange of the rising sun everyday, the one ingredient that was de-facto spice in the kitchen growing up, was turmeric. I don’t think I have seen my mom cooking any curry, soup or dal without...
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Magnesium Magic
Are you feeling anxious for no reason? Stressed? Have trouble sleeping? It’s likely that you are not getting enough youth preserving magnesium in your diet and possibly depleting its store in the body under stress. Even small...
The master antioxidant
The subject of food and nutrition came up recently at a gathering, as it usually does, and it was comforting to know that most people know and understand the value of nutrients such as vitamins and minerals....
Sweet potatoes or Yam?
Here is a fact that my daughter will immediately call “bizarre”. Sweet potatoes are not potatoes and Yam is not sweet potato! In fact all of these similar looking tubers are very different, Yam was brought to...
Teaching our kids to grow up unhealthy?
If you are a parent like me with kids in public schools, most of our attention to schooling lies in academics, grades and social development. But, one aspect of public schools that always gets a solid “F”,...
The Mandatory Mineral: Calcium
Do you truly understand the immense power calcium has to help keep you young? No matter what age you are at right now, it is never too late to start getting more calcium into your diet. As...
Potassium: Shifting the balance
Considering you live in a city, have a busy life, don’t worry too much about what kind of junk you consume on a daily basis, chances are that you have a heavy load of sodium in your...
You are what you eat!
What you put into your mouth everyday, starting from the time you were born to your entire lifetime, has a profound and lost last effect on your health, longevity, quality of aging and even your mind. Just...
Are Bananas Berries?
Botanically speaking strawberries and raspberries aren’t really berries. They form out of a single flower with more than one ovary. True berries are fruits stemming from one flower with one ovary and typically have several seeds, like...
Get this Vitamin from wherever you can
Unless you are depressed and suicidal or an idiot, you want to live a long life with great health. But what do you do? You give up on the most important aspect to make that happen and...
A tale of two tickets
Like a lot of other people, I have traveled a lot. But like everything else in the world, you get what you pay for. This is understandable, we live in a capitalistic society. However, I wonder if...
37.2 trillion cells, one spirit
Why is that most of striking realizations occur in bathrooms? This morning, it was in front of a mirror. As I looked at the corner of my eyes, I think I noticed a faint hint of a wrinkle. Then...
And Einstein again said, “I told you so”
The world is understandably excited about the breakthrough d iscovery of gravitational waves announced on Thursday. I couldn’t help but visualize this fan fare as Einstein looking down at us with a smirk on his face “I told you...
