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Salicornia, the Green Salt Superfood

Salicornia, the Green Salt Superfood

Green salt is obtained from a plant called Salicornia. Salicornia or glasswort is herb that is rich in nutrients tastes like vegetable. It generally grows near sea and its taste comes from the mineral ingredients it contains. Salicornia belongs to same family as Quinoa and Amaranthus, has antioxidant, anti-tumor and antihypertensive properties.

Salicornia being halophyte has ability to tolerate and grown in salt water environment.

Stems of Salicornia is boiled for making salt.

Do you know? Every part of the plant from stem to root, leaves, seeds have huge benefit and value. For many centuries Salicornia is used as food, fodder, medicine and to rehabilitate wasteland in coastal areas. It can be eaten raw in salads, or steamed, sautéed, stir fried or boiled.

Image Reference: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salicornia_europaea_MS_0802.JPG (CC by 2.5)

Author: HealthyLife | Posted on: August 23, 2022
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Pokemon Go

Pokémon Go App helping in Reducing Depression!

(Pokémon Go, the new iOS and Android game that’s sending people outside in droves. Pokémon Go is a free-to-play, location-based augmented reality game developed and published by Niantic. In July 2016 it was released in few countries. In this game, players use a mobile device’s GPS capability to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual creatures, called Pokémon, who appear on the screen as if they were in the same real-world location as the player. Pokémon Go is free to play, so all one has to do is press “download” to begin installing the game onto iPhone or Android device. Since the app was released last month, millions of people have begun exercising regularly and interacting with others – Healthylife.werindia.com).

By Amanda Froelich@www.trueactivist.com

If you live in the city and have taken a stroll downtown during the evenings, chances are you’ve come across hoards of teenagers and adults sitting together, staring at their phones. At first glance, it’d be easy to dismiss the groups as indulged millennials wasting their time, but the Pokémon Go app is actually being credited with helping reduce social anxiety and depression amongst those who play it.

Science Alert relays that since the app came out last month, a good percent of the population has begun regularly exercising as they walk around to play the virtual game. In addition, the app has spurred people to actually interact with each other, helping to reduce social anxiety in individuals who play it.

It should be noted that established methods of reducing depression exist, and they include being in nature, exercising, interacting with others in the same mindset, and enjoying one’s time.  However, it’s Pokémon Go which seems to be inspiring people to experience all simultaneously.

Psychologist John M. Grohol reported on PsychCentral that there has been an increase of social media users expressing reduced feelings of depression and anxiety since playing the app.

The game – which is now more popular than Tinder and is likely to overtake Twitter – has one advantage over other apps, according to the psychologist: it inspires people to get out of their houses and get active. This can be incredibly difficult for those who have social anxiety or suffer from depression.

Don’t just take his word for it, however. Following are some tweets by people who credit the app for benefiting their mental afflictions:

Because of the game’s popularity, animal shelters have begun asking players to walk dogs while ‘hatching eggs’ or seeking out virtual creatures. You can read more about that here.

And, if you’re still confused on what Pokémon Go is, the video below explains:

Regardless of your thoughts on peoples’ overuse of technology, it might be agreed that society functions best when people are happy and healthy, and Pokémon Go seems to be helping make that a reality.

Read More: http://www.trueactivist.com

Author: HealthyLife | Posted on: August 12, 2022
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Tiranga Pulao

Basmati Tiranga Pulao Rice

On India’s Independence day, celebrate our traditions with Basmati Tiranga Pulao rice.  Basmati rice has unique fragrance and is lighter on digestive system. The recipe calls for all good ingredients – Tomato (with lycopene), Spinach (with iron), turmeric (with curcumin) and clarified butter that reduces inflammation. All good ingredients together gives unique color and taste to this absolutely delicious Tiranga pulao.

Ingredients:  

For orange rice

  1. Clarified butter/ ghee – 2 Tbs
  2. Cumin – ¼ tsp
  3. Ginger paste – 1 tsp
  4. Tomato puree (crushed tomato) – ¼ cup
  5. Turmeric – ½ tsp
  6. Chilli powder – ½ tsp
  7. Red chilli paste 1 teaspoon
  8. Salt to taste
  9. Basmati rice – soaked 1 cup

For green rice

  1. Clarified butter/ ghee -2 Tbs
  2. Cumin – ¼ tsp
  3. Ginger paste – 1 tsp
  4. Green chilli paste – 1 tsp
  5. Spinach puree – ½ cup
  6. Green peas – ¼ cup
  7. Salt to taste
  8. Basmati rice – Soaked 1 cup

 White rice

  1. Clarified butter/ ghee – 2 Tbs
  2. Cumin – ¼ tsp
  3. Salt to taste
  4. Basmati rice – soaked 1 cup

 Method:

  1. In a pan take 2 Tbs of ghee and heat in medium heat. Wash Basmati rice and drain the water.
  2. Heat clarified butter in two different pans on medium heat. Add cumin to both pan and saute until seeds gives roasted flavor
  3. Orange rice- In one pan add ginger paste, red chili powder, tomato puree and chilli paste and saute. Add required amount of basmati rice and mix. Now, add one cup of water, little salt and close the lid and cook the rice.
  4. Green rice -In second pan add green chilli paste, ginger paste, turmeric, salt and mix well. Add basmati rice, green peas and mix well again. Add 3/4 cup of water and close the lid. When water starts boiling add spinach puree, mix well and cover the lid. Let the rice cook.
  5. White rice – Heat ghee in a pan, add cumin seeds and saute. Add washed Basmati rice and mix well. Add water and cover the lid, let the rice cook.
  6. In a plate spread green color rice to an inch layer. Spread white rice on top of green rice followed by layer of orange rice. On top, you can decorate using few cashew and finely chopped cilantro.
  7. Serve hot tiranga pulao rice with raita, chutney or any other side dishes of your choice.

Recipe: www.werindia.com

Image: Google

 

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Hare pose, shashankasana

Hare Pose Shashankasana

If you are new to yoga and would like to do inversion poses like shirasasana, you need hours of practices to get there. In the beginning learning basic poses are critical to get into advanced poses. Shashankasana, rabbit pose is beginners pose that involves a bit of inversion. It is a sitting forward bend pose where top of the head touches the floor/mat. Shashankasana is good for relaxing and calming the mind. It helps to reduce abdomen, stretches shoulders, arms and reduces lower back pain. It is also a recommended pose to to improve function of digestive system – Healthy Life

LEVEL :Beginner

Anatomy: Abdomen|Biceps|Lower Back|Neck|Triceps

Pose Type: Forward Fold|Seated

Sanskrit: Shshankasana, Shshanka= Rabbit, asana=pose

Benefits

  • Stretches the spine
  • Soothes the mind and releases tension
  • Activates the digestive system
  • Stretches the arms and shoulders
  • Releases lower back tension or stiffness

Contraindications

How To

  1. Take a seat with your hips resting on your heels
  2. Inhale to prepare
  3. Exhale, rest your hands on your heels or your ankles with your palms facing inward, thumbs down
  4. Inhale once more, and begin to round your spine and bring the crown of your head to rest down on your mat directly in front of your knees
  5. Tuck your chin towards your chest and feel the opening of the back of your neck
  6. To fully arrive in Shashankasana, lift your hips away from your heels and rest your hips above your knees or slightly behind them
  7. Rest here for a few rounds of breath

Modify or Replace

  • Place a blanket underneath your knees or ankles for added support
  • Rest your hands closer to your knees, higher on your calves, if your shoulders feel strained or your neck feels overextended

Sequencing Tips

Before:

After:

  • Balasana (Child pose)
  • Seed Pose (Balasana, variation)

Teaching Cues

  • Engage your shoulder blades, or scapula, and draw your shoulders away from your ears
  • Keep your elbows towards your side bodies
  • Find length through your side bodies with every inhale
  • Tuck your tailbone under to maintain length through your spine

Variations

  • Keep your hips resting on your heels and lessen the intensity of sensation in your legs

Watch Out For

  • Putting too much weight on the crown of your head
  • Slouching your shoulders towards your ears

This article and image is reproduced here with prior permission from beyogi.com. For more poses visit beyogi.com

Author: HealthyLife | Posted on: August 8, 2022
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Ways to use avocado to get health benefits

Ways to use avocado to get health benefits

Avocado comes in different shapes Pear shape to round shape and, color of avocados also varies.

Hass avocado also known as Alligator pears with its nubby skin is most popular variety. Inside green or dark green skin it contains yellowish green flesh.

Avocados are highly nutritious and rich in Vitamin K, folate, potassium Vitamin C, B5 & B6 and E.

In addition, it also contains Magnesium, iron, zinc, phosphorous, vitamin A.

One medium sized avocado supplies 160 calories with 2 grams of protein, 15 grams of fat and, rest of it carb and 3 grams fiber.

Fact is even though it is high in fatty acid content it supplies low level of cholesterol.

Health benefits of avocado are:

  1. Good for eye health
  2. Reduces heart conditions,
  3. Prevents bad breath
  4. Good nutrition for healthy skin
  5. It helps to control Vit K deficiency abnormal bleeding
  6. Reduces morning sickness in pregnancy
  7. Good for digestion and metabolism
  8. Protects liver and regulates indigestion
  9. Prevents osteoporosis

How to use avocado?

  1. Avocado with lemon juice: Add little paprika, lemon juice and balsamic vinegar to half cut avocado and scoop and eat.
  2. Avocado spread: To about 50g Avocado add 1/8 tsp salt, 1 tsp lemon juice and mash the flesh. Lightly toast the bread and spread mashed avocado. This is a replacement for butter.
  3. Avocado and tomato salsa: To one ripe fresh avocado add chopped 2 small tomatoes, ½ cup finely chopped onion, 1 chopped green chilli, 2 chopped garlic cloves, 2 Tbsp chopped cilantro. Mix all ingredients add little lemon juice. Chill for an hour and serve with bread or nachos
  4. Prepare guacamole: See the recipe here. Serve fresh cut vegetables with guacamole.
  5. Avocado dipping sauce: To one fresh avocado flesh, add ½ cup yogurt, ¼ cup fresh basil leaves, 2 Tbsp lemon juice and little salt. In a blender puree avocado with other ingredients. Transfer to a bowl and serve as a dip with fritters or chips.
  6. Avocado and mango topper: Dice two avocados and add 1 ripe mango, 1 cup tomato, ¼ cup chopped cilantro, 2 Tbsp onion, 1 Tbsp green chilli, 1Tbsp lime juice, ½ tsp salt and ¼ tsp black pepper. In a bowl combine all ingredients and serve.
  7. As baby food: Avocado makes a great food for babies. Soft and creamy texture and mild taste is well suited for babies. Puree ripe avocado in a processor and milk to get creaminess.
  8. Avocado cucumber soup: Puree 12 ounce cucumber and, add 2 chopped Hass avocado, green chilli, little sugar and lemon juice. Blend the mix and add 2 cups water, 1 cup coconut milk and process until smooth. Transfer to bowl and season with salt and coarse pepper. One can add little ginger and cumin seeds to enhance taste.
  9. Avocado dip on spicy potato: Boil potato and remove skin. Cut boiled potato into round shape and season with mustard, red chilli powder (1 tsp), asafetida (pinch) turmeric, few chopped garlic cloves (6-8) and salt. Place avocado dip on potato and serve!
  10. Grilled avocado: Cut an avocado into half, remove seed. Apply lemon juice on avocado half and brush olive oil. Place the cut side down in grill and cook for couple of minutes. Season with pepper and salt.

Grandma’s Remedies: www.healthylife.werindia.com

Image credit: Image by Julie Henriksen from Pixabay (Free for commercial use)

Author: HealthyLife | Posted on: August 2, 2022
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Standing Split Pose

Standing Split Pose

(Urdhva Prasarita Eka Padasana or standing split pose has many benefits. Strengthens the whole lower body. It lengthens the muscles of the legs, particularly the calves and hamstrings, builds stability in the pelvis and hips and opens the hip flexors. It also calms the brain Stimulates the liver and kidneys Stretches the hamstrings, calves, and thighs Strengthens the thighs, knees, and ankles Stretches the back of the leg, the front thigh and groin -WerIndia)

Urdhva Prasarita Eka Padasana

Pose Type: Forward Bend, Hip Opener, Inversion, Standing

Sanskrit: Urdhva Prasarita Eka Padasana (OORD-vah pra-sa-REE-tah eh-KAH pah-DAHS-anna)

urdhva = upward / prasarita = spread / eka = one / pada = foot

BENEFITS

• Lengthens the hamstring of the standing leg
• Strengthens the quadriceps of the standing leg
• Strengthens glutes, hamstrings and quadriceps on lifted leg
• Improves balance and stability while improving strength in both hip joints
• Releases tension in the cervical spine

CONTRAINDICATIONS

• fki
• Migraine
• Low back pathologies
• Ankle, knee, or hip injury
• Shoulder injury (if taking hands behind back)

HOW TO

1. Start in Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward-Facing Dog).

2. Inhale, look between your hands, and step your right foot forward.

3. Exhale, press through your right foot to extend your knee, and hinge forward through your hips. elevate your left leg upward, reaching through the toes to extend the knee.

4. Inhale, allow your spine to lengthen, and reach through your lifted leg.

5. Exhale and draw the abdominals inward. Begin to round the upper spine and draw your crown toward your toes. Release the hands to the thigh, shin, ankle, or floor. Feel free to keep a microbend at the knee.

6. Hold this pose for up to 5-10 slow breaths.

7. To exit, inhale and draw your hands to your hips while extending the spine. Press through your feet to rise to Tadasana (Mountain pose). Exhale and release your arms to your sides or into Uttanasana (Standing Forward Fold).

MODIFY OR REPLACE

• Feel free to keep a slight bend in the knee to avoid hyperextension.
• Place hands at the thigh, hips, or heart center.
SEQUENCING TIPS

Before:

1. Virabhadrasana III (Warrior 3)
2. Trikonasana (Triangle pose)
3. Parsvottonasana (Pyramid pose)
4. Uttanasana (Standing Forward Bend)

After:

1. Ardha Chandrasana (Balancing Half Moon)
2. Standing Forward Bend

TEACHING CUES

  • Keep the upper and lower spine extended and, if choosing to round, only round the upper spine.
  • Keep hips stacked equally side by side, engaging the front of the thighs.
  • Hinge first at the hips and keep the abdominals drawn up and in toward the spine.
  • On each inhale, feel your chest expand and spine lengthen. On each exhale, hinge deeper and send the toes upward

VARIATIONS

  • Place arms in Reverse Namaskar.
  • Clasp elbows or fingers behind the back.
  • Reach down for the ankle.

WATCH OUT FOR

  • Rounding the low back instead of hinging at the hips
  • Rotating the standing knee inward instead of straight ahead
  •  Hips angled to one side instead of stacked side by side

This article and image is published here with permission from https://beyogi.com/

Author: HealthyLife | Posted on: August 1, 2022
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Eat more food

Avoid CRAP and Eat more FOOD

CRAP:

Carbonated drinks: Whether you drink diet soda or regular soda it effects your life. Study shows that people who drank a regular soda every day for six months saw a 132 to 142 percent increase in liver fat, a 117 to 221 percent jump in skeletal fat, and about a 30 percent increase in both triglyceride blood fats and other organ fat. Their consumption also led to an 11 percent increase in cholesterol, compared with the people who drank other beverages such as water or milk. Other effects of soda: Accelerated aging, diet soda belly, coloring agents can be cancer agents, BPA liner inside the metal that avoids reaction with acid is also harmful. Moreover artificial sweetener as an ingredient that does not break down causes water pollution.

Refined sugar: Since sugar contains no beneficial nutrients, it is not necessary to eat any at all, and yet the typical American consumes between 120 and 150 pounds each year. Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides only that which nutritionists describe as “empty” or “naked” calories. It lacks the natural minerals which are present in the sugar beet or cane. In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it drains and leaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demand its digestion, detoxification and elimination makes upon one’s entire system. Use sugar sparingly.

Artificial sweeteners: By offering the taste of sweetness without any calories, artificial sweeteners seem like they could be one answer to effective weight loss. Artificial sweeteners may play another trick, too. Research suggests that they may prevent us from associating sweetness with caloric intake. As a result, we may crave more sweets, tend to choose sweet food over nutritious food, and gain weight. Next time before using splenda, aspertame and other artificial sweeteners think twice.

Processed Foods: Chemically processed foods are not good for the body. What do they do to body? They are generally high in sucrose and fructose content, high in tran-fat, make us overeating, supply artificial ingredients, addiction to junk food, high in refined carbohydrates, low in fiber, low in nutrients, reduces metabolic rate & sits in the system for long time. Solution: Prepare fresh food at home & avoid processed food.

Eat more FOOD:

Fruits & veggies: Eat more varieties of fruits and vegetables. Eat fruits that are meant for season and have varieties. Consume veggies in the form of salad. Fruits are rich with anti-oxidants, minerals and vitamins. Vegetables are also good for health in various ways. Both reduce heart risks as they supply low calories.

Organic lean protein: Proteins are building blocks of our body. Go with organic proteins whenever you find them. Soy proteins, organic milk, fish, organic eggs and chicken are some examples for organic lean proteins.

Omega -3-fats: our bodies cannot make omega-3 fats. Omega-3 fatty acids are polyunsaturated fatty acids that are essential nutrients for health. We need omega-3 fatty acids for numerous normal body functions, such as controlling blood clotting and building cell membranes in the brain.  Where we get them? Flax seeds, olive oil,  fish oil, tofu, soybean etc.

Drink water: Our life depends on water. Drink plenty of water. Adults need 16 cups of water everyday. What are the benefits? Water helps in body’s fluid balance, electrolyte balance, weight control, skin health, kidney function, muscle strength,  productivity, acts as sickness fighter and it is a brain booster.

Image :www.werindia.com

Author: HealthyLife | Posted on: July 29, 2022
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