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Don't worry about the people in your past; There's a reason they didn't make it to your future.
Doctor and Patient

Doctor and Patient

Many patients conclude their condition before the diagnosis. Everybody knows the term hereditary and this becomes an excuse for overweight, obesity or diabetes conditions. If we exercise regularly, minimum three days a week – 25 minutes each day, body will burn the calorie and the chance of developing various conditions is less. Ask your doctor or nutritionist or dietitian how to proceed with diet or exercise. Once you take that healthy path your body feels better inside out.


Author: Sumana Rao | Posted on: November 3, 2015
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Dieting is fun or isn't it?

Dieting is fun or is it?

People go on diet then they give up in the middle. There are so many nutrition jokes about diet planning. Dieting is hard but is worth. One should know which diet is good for one’s body. Dieting does not end in a day. Many diet plans go from one week to 30 days. Remember these funny words when you go on dieting…

  • It’s not the minutes spent at the table that put on weight, it is the seconds.
  • The biggest drawback to fasting for seven days is that it makes one weak.
  • The toughest part of a diet is not watching what you eat. It is watching what other people eat.
  • An excellent way to lose weight is by skipping … snacks and dessert.

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Past of eat is I ate too much and the future - What?

Past of Eat is I ate too much and the future – What?

Eating big portion during dinnertime, having dinner after 8 PM, staying up late, having too much desert may be risk factors in weight gain.  A recent study from Northwestern Medicine found that late sleepers consumed 248 more calories a day, mainly at dinner and later in the evening. They ate half as many fruits and vegetables, twice the fast food and drank more full-calorie sodas than those with earlier sleep times. The extra daily calories can mean a significant amount of weight gain – two pounds per month – if they are not balanced by more exercise.


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EGG PLANT & BABY POTATO IN TAMARIND SAUCE

EGG PLANT & BABY POTATO IN TAMARIND SAUCE

Small round Indian egg plants are cooked in delicious tamarind sauce combined with various spices is a delicacy of Indian cuisine. Spices stuffed in eggplant (turmeric, spices, salt, and onion) and cooked in tamarind sauce in oil is a good dish for roti, chapatti, parota and rice.

Similarly baby potatoes roasted in tamarind sauce and chilli powder with salt and other spices is a favorite dish of many. This is easy to prepare and the taste is slightly differs from regular potato curry because of slight tamarind taste.

Image: http://vegrecipes4u.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/eggplant-in-tamarind-sauce.jpg


Author: Sumana Rao | Posted on: October 28, 2015
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PULIYINJI & THOKKU

PULIYINJI & THOKKU

Puliyinji is nothing but tamarind and ginger chutney. It is a sweet and sour sauce made by simmering fried ginger (inji) in jaggery and tamarind (puli) sauce. Puliyinji is also known as Inji Curry in some regions of Kerala. Puliyinji can be refrigerated and stored for a long time. It is served as pickle. This aids digestive system and during festival it is a belief that eating puliyinji before and after meals helps in heavy food digestion.

Thokku is nothing but green (immature) tamarind fruit chutney. This is yummy chutney and can be mixed with rice or taken as side pickle with yogurt rice, roti or with sandwich bread. Main ingredients are raw tamarind, salt, green chillis, red chillis, little turmeric,  asafetida seasoned with mustard, curry leaves. It can be stored for longtime in refrigerator.

Image: http://kitchen-guru.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/inji-puli.jpg


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TAMARIND RASAM & TAMARIND SAUCE

TAMARIND RASAM & TAMARIND SAUCE

Rasam is Indian version of soup. Tamarind rasam has tamarind as main ingredient with asafetida, tomato (optional), turmeric, lentils, pepper, red & green chillis, cilantro or coriander leaves, salt and garlic (optional). It brings back the appetite during or after fever and is good for indigestion.

The base of tamarind sauce is the pulp of the tamarind fruit, either as a paste, as a juice, or as a concentrate. The flavor of tamarind sauce is both sweet and sour. In addition to being part of complex dishes, tamarind sauce can be used by itself as a dipping sauce for appetizers. One can add date, pepper and other spices to make tamarind sauce -sour, sweet and spicy. It goes well with Indian chats – pav bhaji, golgappa, puffed rice chats, samosas, pappad and other appetizers. It is a most common item on tables of Indian restaurant.


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SAAMBAR AND VATHA KOZHAMBU

SAMBAR AND VATHA KOZHAMBU

The main ingredient of both spicy dishes is tamarind. In sambar vegetables, lentils and spices are cooked in tamarind water along with turmeric. It is good for the digestive system and reduces accumulation of gas. Sambar is served with main dishes like rice, idlis, dosa etc.

Vatha kozhambu is a sour, spicy dish that has tamarind as main ingredient. It is a specialty of Tamil Nadu. For seasoning curry leaves, sundakkai (Turkey berry) and any other vegetables can be added. Vathal means sun dried vegetable. The sundakkai vathal have diuretic properties, and are used in bowel complaints and for reducing fever.


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TAMARIND JUICE

TAMARIND JUICE

Tamarind has tartaric acid and also some amount of sugar. If one feels nausea or vomiting drinking tamarind mild juice can help to get rid of the symptom. Also, tamarind juice -slightly concentrated acts as laxative. Two types of tamarind juices are – green (raw) fruit and brown pulp juices. Green tamarind juice is slightly sourer. One can add salt and jaljeera (cumin powder with salt, pepper etc) to the juice and drink.

Image: http://caribbeanpot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Tamarind-Juice-9.jpg


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