Mushrooms are popular weight-loss food. They are of four kinds – saprotrophic, mycorrhizal, parasitic, and endophytic. Botanically, the mushroom is a fungus’s fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body. There are said to be over 10000 varieties of mushrooms...
Let me clarify some fundamental facts. There are many regional preferences for cooking oils and their use in different parts of the world. The most consumed cooking oils in the world are palm oils (65.15 Million metric tons), Soybean oil (54.59 MMT), rapeseed oil...
Ayurveda and TCM philosophies emphasize more on preventive healing rather than treatment. They both focused on nutrition, food, and psychotherapeutic healing aspects. I looked at the diet recommendations for cancer prevention and post-treatment management as I...
Our body requires plenty of things for growth, sustenance, and well-being, such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, fiber, minerals, and phytochemicals. Our needs for nutrients vary with age, physical, and mental activity. When growth is the focus in the early stages of...
In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), diet is customized to individual lifestyle, body type, physical condition, age, and season. According to TCM, diabetes occurs when there is a deficiency of Yin and an excess of internal heat. They recommend consuming foods like...
Lutein and zeaxanthin are a class of carotenoids that help protect vision and prevent cellular damage. These are two subcategories of carotenoids, the other being carotenes. While carotenes are orange pigments, lutein and zeaxanthin are yellow pigments. This class of...
