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Raw vegetables, fruits and some discipline... it makes difference to your health
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"Make food your medicine and medicine your food," said Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine. I have an insatiable appetite for devouring precious advice from our elders wherever I go.
We keep hearing about vegetable juices, but do they really work? In Delhi, the eighty-year young, successful chartered accountant and his ever-smiling wife lead an active and fun-filled life. Anirudh Krishan Luthra (who also learnt a lot from his surgeon father and his doctor-uncles) points out that eating in a disciplined way (no snacking) and eating fruits, especially bananas and apples every morning, and plenty of vegetables are what give him his energy. "Eating raw vegetables will actually increase the electric potentials of your body's tissues, making cells function better, improving inner and extra-cellular exchange and imparting high levels of mental and physical vitality. Vegetable juices are even better," says Luthra. At which point, his wife Ved draws my attention to the fact that vegetables in the cabbage family contain a high level of natural carcinogen-inhibitors called "indoles". In fact, the cabbage is taken very seriously at the American National Cancer Institute. Cabbage juice is also proven to cure ulcers. Ved can vouch for this; she has cured her ulcers by drinking cabbage juice every single morning.
They also recommend a small glass of "pumpkin juice" daily on an empty stomach. "Nature's greatest antacid," they point out. "Should you have acidity, then drink a small glass of this everyday for 40 days and see it work wonders." I too get to sip on a short glass of "pumpkin juice" chilled with ice and enlivened with a squeeze of lemon.
They share with me the recipe of an easy-to-make digestive powder, they make regularly. Take equal portions of saunf, coriander seeds and sugar (mishri). Roast the saunf and the coriander seeds on a "tava" or flat pan. Then grind all three. Bottle in glass jars and eat after meals. Great for digestion! Yummy to taste!
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RASHMI UDAY SINGH
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