Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Rujuta Diwekar's Advice to Diabetics

*Rujuta Diwekar* is the highest paid *dietician* in India. She is the one who took care of *junior Ambani* to lose 108 kgs.
*Her advice to diabetics*:
1. *Eat fruits grown locally* ..... Banana, Grapes, Chikoo, Mangoes. All fruits have FRUCTOSE so it doesn't matter that you are eating a mango over an Apple. A Mango comes from Konkan and Apple from Kashmir. So Mango is more local to you.
*Eat all the above fruits in DIABETES as the FRUCTOSE* will eventually manage your SUGAR
  2. Choose Seed oils than Veggie oils. Like choose ground nut, mustard, coconut & til. *Don't choose chakachak packing oils*, like olive,  rice bran etc
*Go for kachchi ghani oils than refined oils*
  3. Rujuta spends max time in her talks talking about GHEE and its benefits.
*Eat GHEE daily*. How much GHEE we should eat depends on food. Few foods need more GHEE then eat more and vice versa. Eat ample *GHEE. It REDUCES cholesterol*.
  4. *Include COCONUT.* Either scraped coconut over food like poha, khandvi or chutney with idli and dosa
Coconut has *ZERO CHOLESTEROL* and it makes your WAIST SLIM
  5. *Don't eat oats, cereals for breakfast*. They are packaged food and we don't need them.  Also they are tasteless and boring and our day shouldn't start with boring stuff.
Breakfast should be poha, upma, idli, dosa, paratha
  6. Farhaan Akhtar's New ad of biscuits - fibre in every bite... Even ghar ka kachara has fibre, likewise oats have fibre. Don't chose them for fibre. *Instead of oats, eat poha, upma, idli, dosa*
  7. *No JUICES till you have teeth* in your mouth to chew veggies and fruits
  8. *SUGARCANE is the real DETOX* . Drink the juice fresh or eat the SUGARCANE
  9. For pcos, thyroid - do strength training and weight training and avoid all packaged food
10. *RICE - eat regular WHITE RICE. NO NEED of Brown rice.* Brown rice needs 5-6 whistles to cook and when it tires your pressure cooker, then why do you want to tire your tummy.
A white rice is hand pounded simple rice
*Rice* is not high is GI INDEX.  Rice has mediun GI index and by eating it with daal / dahi / kadhi we bring its GI index further down
If we take _ghee over this daal chawal then the GI INDEX is brought further down._
*B.* Rice has some rich minerals and you can eat it even three times a day
11. How much should we eat - *eat more if you are more hungry,* let your stomach be your guide and vice versa
12. We can *eat rice and chapati together* or only rice if you wish. It depends on your hunger. *Eat RICE in ALL THREE MEALS without any fear.*
13. Food shouldn't make you scared like eating rice and ghee. *Food should make you FEEL GOOD*
14. *NEVER* look at *CALORIES*. Look at *NUTRIENTS*
15. *No bread, biscuits, cakes, pizza, pasta*
16. Ask yourself is this the food my Nani & Dadi ate?  If yes then eat without fear.
17. Eat as per your season. *Eat pakoda, fafda, jalebi in monsoon*. Your hunger is as per season. Few seasons we need fried food so eat them.
18. When not to have chai - tea - don't drink tea as the first thing in morning or when you are hungry. Rest you can have it 2-3 times a day and with sugar
19. *NO GREEN tea plesse.* No green, yellow, purple, blue tea.
20. Eat *ALL* of your *TRADITIONAL* foods.
21. Strictly *NO* to packaged foods / drinks.
22. Exercise / Walk more to digest & stay healthy.
Regards,
_Rujuta Diwekar_

May Be




Maybe . . We were supposed to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one so that, when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Body Image Parable - Mermaid or a Whale?

A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was "This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?"



Thursday, January 12, 2017

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Lohri

Wishing all my friends here a Very Happy Lohri .... May we all always be Divinely Protected , guided an blessed 🙏🙏🙏

The Story an The Essence Of Lohri 😊 MUST READ
SUNDAR MUNDARIYE….HO!

There is a large tract of semi-arid terrain lying between the rivers Chenab and Ravi called the Saandal Bar. (It   now falls in the districts of Sheikhupura and Faislabad.) The people of this area were known to provide the stiffest opposition to the Muslim marauders.
They never paid any taxes;  rather,  they openly defied the authorities and indulged in looting the royal caravans and treasures.  'Saandal', a warlord of Bhatti Rajput clan led these tribals.

Prince Jahangir, the heir apparent, fired with zeal to prove his prowess carried out campaigns to consolidate the Mughal authority in the region. He captured and executed Saandal and his son,Farid. Their skins were peeled off and hung at the Delhi gate of the Fort of Lahore to instill a sense of fear amongst the rebels.

However, the son of Farid, Abdullah or Dullah as he is fondly called,  remained unfazed and continued his defiant activities. Dullah earned notoriety in the eyes of authorities. He, like Robin Hood,   looted wealthy landlords and Imperial officers and distributed the booty amongst the poor. He came to be regarded as a father figure for the distressed and oppressed. and became a living embodiment of the chivalrous and secular, socio-cultural character of the region.

Dullah was the contemporary of yet another Super Human, Poet Divine, Sri Guru Arjan Dev, the Fifth Sikh Guru, who sacrificed his life at the altar of humanity at Lahore.

It is believed that Dullah had restored the prestige of an innocent girl whose modesty was outraged by a Mughal general. Dullah had adopted this girl as his daughter and arranged her marriage in the Jungles of 'Saandal Bar'. As there was no priest nearby to chant the Vedic Hymns and solemnise the marriage Dullah had lit a bonfire and composed an impromtu song: Sundari Mundariye…… The bride and the groom were asked to take pheras of the bonfire as Dullah sang this hilarious song.

The 'ho's are in chorus…..


Sunder mundriye ho!         ( Oh, you pretty lass)
Tera kaun vicaharaa ho!    (Who is your protector, you  pitiable one? )
Dullah Bhatti walla ho!    (There's this man called Dullah, from Village Bhatti)
Dullhe di dhee vyayae ho!  (Dullah's  getting her married as his own daughter)
Ser shakkar payee  ho!               (He gave 1 kg sugar!)
Kudi da laal pathaka ho!            (The girls is wearing a red suit!)
Kudi da saalu paatta ho!                        (But her shawl is torn!)
Saalu kaun samete    ho  !                       (Who will stitch her shawl?)
Chacha gaali dese   ho!                        (Her Uncle will scold her)
Chacha choori kutti ho!             (The uncle made choori{a Punjabi dish}!)
zamidara lutti        ho!                (The landlords ate it!)
Zamindaar sudhaye ho!        (Dullah gave the landlords lots more to eat!)
Ginn-ginn bhole aaye   ho!         (Lots of innocent guys came)
Ek bhola reh gaya!                                 (One innocent boy got left behind)
Sipahee pakad ke lai gaya!         (The police arrested him!)
Sipahee ne mari itt!                   (The policeman hit him with a brick!)
Phannve ro te phannve pit!        (Now, you may cry or howl!)
Sanoo de de lohri te teri jeeve jodi!        (Give us our Lohri  & may you live long as a couple!)


Til (Sesame seeds) and Rorhi (a form of sweet jaggery in Punjabi) are meant to keep the body warm. These two terms Til+ Rorhi combined to form Tilrorhi, which eventually was corrupted

Monday, January 9, 2017

You start dying slowly - By Pablo Neruda


You start dying slowly
if you do not travel,
if you do not read, 
If you do not listen to the sounds of life,
If you do not appreciate yourself.

You start dying slowly
When you kill your self-esteem;
When you do not let others help you.

You start dying slowly
If you become a slave of your habits,
Walking everyday on the same paths…
If you do not change your routine,
If you do not wear different colours
Or you do not speak to those you don’t know.

You start dying slowly
If you avoid to feel passion
And their turbulent emotions;
Those which make your eyes glisten
And your heart beat fast.

Friday, January 6, 2017

Buddhist Tales : Peace of Mind

Once Buddha was traveling with a few of his followers.
While they were passing a lake, Buddha told one of his disciples,
"I am thirsty.
Do get me some water from the lake."
The disciple walked up to the lake.
At that moment,
a bullock cart started crossing through the lake.
As a result,
The water became very muddy and turbid.
The disciple thought,
"How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink?"