My Sattvik Plate

2023 has been declared by the UN as the International Year of the Millet.  Millets have been a part of our traditional Indian diets for centuries. Millets are not just tasty but are packed with health benefits and help address health issues like diabetes, cholesterol, and weight loss. Millet is a highly underrated yet easy-to-grow sustainable crop suitable for any arid soil. They can be easily grown in regions where other cereal crops, like wheat, struggle because of their resistance to difficult growing conditions. Millets on the other hand require little water and ground fertility making them a sustainable and earth-friendly crop . Millets are a powerhouse of nutrition and contain more dietary fibre, iron and calcium than wheat or rice.  Research had shown millets as good defence in the fight against diabetes. Millets have a low glycemic index, which means such foods have lesser impact on blood glucose levels than foods that are higher up in the index.   The Barnyard mi...

  Trigunas - Sattva, Rajas, Tamas are the three basic qualities of our existence. Sattva is clarity, awareness, intelligence, divinity, balance, stability.  Rajas is Passion, movement, attachment, ego, desire, enthusiasm. Tamas is interia, illusion, laziness, heaviness, inactivity, materialism.  The Trigunas are present in every person in different proportions. Without Tamas one would not sleep, without Rajas one would lack dynamism and without Sattva life would be uninspiring, lacking the higher human qualities.  The food we eat has enormous influence on us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Food that is fresh close to nature,  nourishing vegetarian and made with love promotes a clear mind and is Sattvik. A predominantly Rajasic diet that is high on spices, caffeine, garlic, eggs, meat, alcohol, food made in anger, fried food destroys the mind-body equilibrium, feeding the body at the expense of the mind.  Tamasic foods is highly processed,...