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Eat More, Weigh Less – Lose Weight Through Yummy Food

November 26, 2016 By Dr Achyuthan Eswar Leave a Comment

Eat More, Weight Less, Lose Weight | Naturopathy and Yoga PHC Lifestyle Clinic Dr. Achyuthan Eswar

“The key to lose weight is to enjoy your food, eat three course meals and eat as much as you want.” Tell this to anyone who has been struggling to lose weight, and they will laugh at you. Trust me, when I heard someone say this three years back, I laughed too. I weighed 81 kg then.

Would you believe me if I told you I tried doing exactly this, and lost 20 kgs? I weigh 61 kg now – without any dieting! And what’s more, we have helped hundreds of people lose weight easily and reach their ideal weight through PHC Lifestyle Clinic. In fact, weight loss is the easiest target to achieve. Read this article to find out how.

I’m sure you know at least 20 people who are overweight or obese. If you think you don’t, just go to the street and see how many people you can find who are at their ideal body weight! I’m sure you would find only a few.

On the other hand, have you ever seen a fat wild animal? For example, a fat giraffe? Or even a fat elephant? Of course, there are heavy animals like elephants and hippopotamuses, and animals that put on weight and then hibernate. But these animals are all built heavy, not fat. Have you seen animals that  are unnaturally fat? So fat they can’t run fast, they can’t bend, they can’t stand for long hours? There are no such animals in the wild.

We are the only obese animal on the planet
We are the only obese animal. Photo Credit: Erik Wienke

We are the only fat animals in the world. More people die from heart attacks and strokes than from HIV, accidents and cancer combined – and 95% of this is preventable. We have an epidemic of obese six month old children! The theme for the World Anti Obesity Day 2016, November 26th, is Stop Childhood Obesity. Health is the greatest gift we can give our children – and it begins in our kitchen. Sign up for a FREE 10 Day Food Challenge and kickstart your journey towards perfect health:

Start Your Delicious 10 Day Food Challenge!

Obese Baby
We have an Epidemic of Obese 6 Month Olds. Photo credit: Jonas Soderstrom

How do we solve this problem for ourselves and our families? The solution is simpler than you think.

Root Cause of Obesity

How do you remove weeds in a garden? You pull them out by their roots. If you dont, they grow right back. The solution to any problem is to remove the root cause of the problem.

Diets don’t work to lose weight. They don’t address the root cause of obesity. The fundamental basis of a diet is ‘I like this, but I’m not going to eat it!’. How long can one control cravings? This is impractical.

To remove the root cause of obesity, let us understand how food influences health.

Here’s the Formula to Lose Weight

The 5-step formula reaching our ideal weight is a ‘Whole Foods Plant Based Diet’:

Farm: Organically or naturally grown plants. No animals or animal products. Gluten free crops.
Factory: Unprocessed whole foods
Shop: Local and seasonal ingredients
Kitchen: Slow cooked in water
Dining: Three-course meals to be had in the following order: Fruits and raw vegetables, followed by cooked vegetables, then cooked pulses and cereals; two meals a day, when hungry, mindfully eaten with eyes closed, without distractions, and chewed to a paste.

Here are Tools to Eat More, Weight Less

To make things simpler, we have some tools for you. A sample meal, a powerful FREE online 10 day food challenge and a mouth watering recipe database!


Here’s a Three Course Traditional Indian Meal that can help you Lose Weight:

Whole Foods Plant Based Three Course Meal | PHC Lifestyle Clinic Naturopathy and Yoga Dr. Achyuthan Eswar
Whole Foods Plant Based Three Course Meal

This yummy spread is composed of Orange, Grapes, Watermelon, Guava, Red dragon fruit, Soaked raisins, Greens with Red Bell Pepper Sesame Sauce, Peanut Coconut Chutney, Green Gram Vegetable Dosa with Aloo Chaat and Soaked Almonds & Cashews. Yes, eating all these will help you reduce weight – simply because you are eating unprocessed plant foods!

Start Your 10 Day Food Challenge – Can You Eat More, Weigh Less?

We have seen so many people lose weight effortlessly, we challenge you to try it! Join us for a 10 Day Food Challenge. Click the button below to sign up right away and effortlessly reach your ideal weight:

Start Your Delicious 10 Day Food Challenge!

Diabetes Reversal Through Food | PHC Lifestyle Clinic Be Your Own Doc Naturopathy and Yoga
Three Course Whole Foods Plants Based Meal

Join us for a workshop on Healing With Food

We conduct a life transforming one day workshop on Healing With Food. Hundreds of people have participated in this workshop and transformed their health effortlessly.

Healing With Food Workshop | PHC Lifestyle Clinic Naturopathy And Yoga Dr. Achyuthan Eswar

Here is what the Healing With Food workshop can do for you:

  1. We give you age old traditions and customs backed by logical and scientific explanations.
  2. We offer you tons of rare and forgotten traditional recipes.
  3. We show you how to lose weight by eating to your heart’s content.
  4. We show you how never to crave.
  5. We can make your friends and family envy you for the food that you eat.
  6. We help you get in touch with your intuition and listen to what your body tells you.
  7. We give you powerful tools to de-link your emotions from your eating, working on the root cause of bad eating habits like binging.
  8. We teach you practices like mindful eating, hunger awareness and others that make it easy for you to help your body attain a normal weight with ease.

Click the button below to join us for the next workshop:

Healing With Food Workshop – Register Now

Delicious Recipe Database

Also, check out our recipe database! We call it the Diet Fruitfully Project and it has many mouth watering, yummy recipes, from jowar roti to massoppu saaru to guacomole to sorghum dumplings in lentil soup! Click the button below to access the recipes:

DietFruitfully Project – Recipe Database

And here’s the link for the FREE 10 Day Food Challenge again, just in case. Hope you enjoy eating yummy foods and watching those extra kilos shed off effortlessly! 🙂

Start Your Delicious 10 Day Food Challenge!

Filed Under: Blog, Diseases, Mindful Eating, Nutrition, Obesity, Processed Food, Public Health, World Health Days Tagged With: eat more weigh less, lose weight, obesity, world anti obesity day

Did you know you can reverse diabetes?

November 14, 2016 By Dr Achyuthan Eswar Leave a Comment

Food is one of the four imbalanced factors that lies at the root cause of diabetes. Here’s the food that works to set this right! 

I’m certain that you know at least 10 people who are diabetic. It is then possible for you to imagine a diabetes-free world? We have accepted that ‘after a certain age’ diabetes is normal. What’s new, however, is that people in their 20s are diabetic and so are children!

If you are diabetic, you have probably experienced a slow increase in weight, fluctuating sugar levels, worsening lab reports, increasing doses of medicine and insulin, and complications like kidney damage, retinal damage, nerve damage, etc. Unfortunately, while doctors prescribe drugs to control diabetes and tell you to take care of ‘exercise and diet’, most don’t have the time to tell you exactly how to do this.

Diabetes Reversal Through Whole Foods Plant Based Diet | PHC Lifestyle Clinic Be Your Own Doc Naturopathy and YogaReversing diabetes

Naturopathy and yoga can help you reduce weight in just a few days, stabilise blood sugar levels and reduce the need for medications and insulin. Even complications will improve if you remove the root causes of the disease. We have helped many diabetics, including doctors, reduce or eliminate their medications, even go off insulin, all while eating delicious oranges and mangoes! You can achieve this too, with the right tools.

Register for Disease Reversal Workshop

Remove the Root Cause of Disease

Imagine driving on a highway. You suddenly hear a loud bang from the engine. What would you do? Immediately stop the car and figure out what happened, correct? Would you instead turn up your music volume and pretend you didn’t hear the noise? Unlikely. We are tuned to get to the root cause of our problems and solve them. We pull out weeds by their roots, not trim their leaves so they can grow back!
The root cause of diabetes lies in imbalances in four spheres of our life — food, mind, lifestyle, and environment.
Diet don’t work. Understanding how food influences health does. The 5-step formula for reversing diabetes through food is a ‘Whole Foods Plant Based Diet’.

Farm: Organically or naturally grown plants. No animals or animal products. Gluten free crops.
Factory: Unprocessed whole foods
Shop: Local and seasonal ingredients
Kitchen: Slow cooked in water
Dining: Three-course meals to be had in the following order: Fruits and raw vegetables, followed by cooked vegetables, then cooked pulses and cereals; two meals a day, when hungry, mindfully eaten with eyes closed, without distractions and chewed to a paste.

To make things simpler, we have some tools for you. A sample meal, a comprehensive kitchen replacement chart and healing recipes. We also have a comprehensive FREE online program to help you start reversing diabetes today. Click the button below to sign up:

Yes, I want to Reverse Diabetes Now


Here’s a Meal that can help Reverse Diabetes through Food

Diabetes Reversal Through Food | PHC Lifestyle Clinic Be Your Own Doc Naturopathy and Yoga
Three Course Whole Foods Plants Based Meal

Many doctors advise diabetics not to consume fruits, while in fact, fruits have tremendous potential to reverse diabetes. Research conducted at Harvard Medical School have shown that fruits prevent and reverse diabetes. Their guidelines include daily fruit consumption. Fruits and cereals like millets and rice have sugars. Add fruits at the beginning of every meal and reduce cereals at the end to balance it out. Vegetables, especially green leafy veggies, and nuts are important too!

Check out the chart below. Many of us use the ingredients on the left column of the chart. Replace these with the ones on the right. Follow these recipes to easily prepare meals that heal. Our recipes show how traditional food can be easily prepared to enable healing and health. Visit www.dietfruitfully.com for all our healing recipes. Bon Appetit!

Kitchen Replacement Charts

Click the links in the table below to access our healing recipes:

Diabetes Causing Food/ IngredientCan Replace WithBest Possible Alternative
Meat, cheese, paneer, eggsNut cheeses, jhunka vadaWhole Nuts
Raw milk, boiled milk, pasteurised milk, toned milk, double-toned milk, fortified milk, low fat milk, slim milk, flavoured milkCoconut mylk, almond mylk, groundnut mylk, sesame mylk, green gram mylk, rice
mylk (mylk is milk from plants)
Whole Nuts
Curds, Buttermilk, wheyButtermilk: coconut mylk + lemon + salt
Curds: Boil peanut mylk, add lemon & salt
Same
Ghee, butter, refined oilsUnrefined oils – coconut, sesame/gingelly/til, mustard, groundnutWhole Nuts & seeds – coconut, til, mustard,groundnuts
Polished / white rice & flourUnpolished rice – brown rice, red rice & brown / red rice flourMillets – bajra, jowar, ragi, foxtail millet, etc. – & flour
Whole wheat flour, maidamillet flours – ragi flour, bajra flour, jowar four, etcSame
Broken wheat daliya, barley, rye, oatsMillets or millet rava – pearl millet, foxtail millet, kodo millet, bajra, jowar, etcSame
White sugar, refined light brown jaggeryUnrefined black jaggeryDate paste, raisin paste, sugarcane juice
Iodised saltUnrefined rock salt, black saltReduce salt to a minimum. herbs & spices like turmeric and coriander are salty
Baking soda–avoid
Edible coloursPlants like Turmeric, saffron, beetroot, & garciniaSame
VinegarLemon juice, orange, grapes
Pickled vegetablesMarinated vegetablesFresh vegetable salad (ex: radish, amla, green pepper and lemon!)
Ready made batter, paste, masalaFreshly ground batter, paste, masalaSame
CreamFruit pulp, nut paste, peanut mylkSame
Flavors/essenceNatural flavors (ex: whole vanilla pod, not essence) and spicesSame
Packaged sauceFreshly made saucesSame

Want to sign for a FREE comprehensive program on reversing disease and preserve health through food? Click the button below:

Yes, I don’t want to become diabetic


Recipes for Reversing Diabetes

Cooked Vegetables:

Vale bajji ambat / Basala soppu saaru / Malabar spinach curry

Thai curry

Massoppu Saaru / Greens Lentil Curry or Soup

 

Cooked Cereals:

Neer dosa / Thin rice crepes

Foxtail Millet Vegetable Pulao

Ragi Mudde / Ragi Balls (Finger Millet)

Kumbalkai Kottige Kadubus / Pumpkin Dumpling

Jolada roti or Bhakri / Jowar or Sorghum bread

Side Dishes:

Shenga chutney / Peanut dip

Vendakkai Sambar without Tamarind / Ladies Finger Sambar / Bhindi Sambar

 

Sweets & Desserts:

Shepi Kadubu / Sabbakki Soppu Kadubu / Dill Kadubu

Methi payasa / Menthe Paez / Fenugreek Rice Kanji

Soups & Snacks:

Carrot soup

Jhunka Vade / Gram Flour Cutlet

Mixture (Deepavali / Diwali Special)

 

Plant-based Mylks:

Green Gram Mylk / Moonga Udhak (Vegan Plant Based Milk)

Sesame Mylk / Tila Udhak / Ellu Neeru (Vegan Milk)

Peanut Mylk (Vegan Plant Based Milk)

Want to sign for a FREE comprehensive program on reversing disease and preserve health through food? Click the button below:

Yes, I want to be Healthy Without Medications

This article by Dr. Achyuthan Eswar and Prathima Kharvi from PHC Lifestyle Clinic was first published in DNA India. Here’s the original article:

Reverse Diabetes Through Food | PHC Lifestyle Clinic Be Your Own Doc Naturopathy and Yoga

Filed Under: Blog, Diabetes Mellitus, Diseases, Nutrition, World Health Days Tagged With: diabetes, diabetes prevention, diabetes reversal, nutrition, reversing diabetes, vegan, whole foods plant based

Would you share your smoke with a kid? World No Tobacco Day 2016

May 31, 2016 By Dr Achyuthan Eswar Leave a Comment

This is perhaps one of the best Anti Smoking Ads ever made. Would you share your smoke with a kid? 🙂

Today is World No Tobacco Day.

Why do you smoke?
To be a part of your ‘gang’.
To overcome a pain.
To forget a problem that’s difficult to solve.
To smudge over a broken heart.

Once you start smoking to ‘take control’ of your life, the tobacco takes control of you. You begin to depend on it to deal with the smallest of issues.

No smoker likes the way he or she feels after finishing a long smoking session. Here’s how you feel after smoking:
Irritated
Constipated
Breathless
Not hungry
Lethargic
Sleepy
Tired
This isn’t what the ads told you. This isn’t what your friends told you. This isn’t what you want either. So you smoke again, You feel good for an hour or two. Then you fall into the pits of depression again.

After a while, you’re addicted. You can’t think straight without a smoke. Scared of withdrawal symptoms, you don’t stop smoking. Until…

“Your scan shows a large cancerous growth in your lungs. I’m afraid you have only a few months to live”, or…
“Your son / daughter has suffered a massive heart attack. We have just finished our surgery, but I’m afraid it wasn’t successful”…

 

World No Tobacco Day 2016
Credit: NHS, UK

If you smoke, get in touch with the nearest Alcoholics Anonymous group or a psychologist you trust, take help to stop smoking. Naturopathy and Yoga have amazing tools to help quit smoking.

If you know someone who smokes, show them this video. Take them on a no-smoking holiday. Show them how much you love them and need them, help them overcome their issues.

If you know someone who does not currently smoke, take their help to get others to stop smoking, so that they never fall into the trap themselves.

Let’s make today’s World No Tobacco Day, Happy No Tobacco Day! 🙂

Video credit: Thai Health Promotion Foundation

Filed Under: Addictions, Blog, Public Health, World Health Days

Where’s Mom? – The question dads are most frequently asked. Happy Mothers Day.

May 10, 2015 By Dr Achyuthan Eswar 1 Comment

On Mothers Day, “I gave birth to you” is by far the most powerful statement anyone could make. “I washed your butt” is probably the second most.

Some years back, I wondered at the futility of being a man. All alone on this planet, there was really nothing I could do. Perhaps that one advantage women have over men led man to project an overpowering, strong image of himself from ancient times.

Mothers can do anything | Dr. Achyuthan Eswar Naturopathy and YogaNo matter how much the world seems to be run by men, at home, it is the mother who decides how her child grows up. It is the mother who decides what her child eats, what her child learns, what her child grows up to – or not to be. Well, not just her child, but everyone else in the house as well.

For some months now, I’ve been thinking of the best way to maximise the number of people I can help this lifetime. I think I have the answer. Mothers.

A patient who came in recently has been taking a daily dose of turmeric for a severe allergy that she suffers from. When I asked her what prompted her to take the turmeric powder, she said ‘Amma told me’. I smiled, remembering the number of times my sisters and I have given the same explanation when asked why we were doing something. It came naturally to us to simply listen to what amma said implicitly, because we subconsciously knew that she knew best.

There is an urgent, pressing question that dads all over the world are being asked by their kids right now: Where's Mom? Happy Mothers Day | Dr. Achyuthan Eswar Naturopathy and Yoga

Some months back, Janani (my green-connect-expert sister) and I were wandering a few streets away from the office, when we spotted a jamun tree laden with dark purple, very ripe jamuns, many of which had fallen and smashed themselves on the road and under the wheels that drove by, unheeding. We could not resist ourselves – we picked up a chunk of dried coconut fiber lying by the side of the road, and began throwing it at the tree, collecting as many jamuns as we could. Suddenly, a voice behind us shouted, “Hey, what are you doing? I don’t think you should be throwing that in a public space. Someone could get hurt”. We turned around to see a mother with her child, walking on the road.

We explained to her that we were just trying to get some jamuns to eat and were doing it in a safe way, but she refused to budge until we left the place. We walked to the office, nursing our wounded egos, and promptly went to amma’s room and stood behind her for about ten seconds until we realised what we had done, unconsciously! Running to amma seemed like the natural response to the situation, we did not even think about it. After we realised it, we smiled at each other and sauntered off, feeling good inside.

Super Moms on Mothers' Day May 10 2015 | Dr. Achyuthan Eswar Naturopathy and Yoga

I think I’ve finally understood, a healthcare revolution can only be brought about by mobilising people who really care – Mothers. Mothers hold the health of their family in their hands. Traditions and practices that we were following in India until very recently were focussed towards health. Every mother knew how to keep herself and her family healthy. Unfortunately, today, many families have lost this knowledge, because of many reasons. If I can help them learn the best way to keep their children’s and their families’ health safe, then I can help improve the health of generations to come.

Imagine a world where every mother knows exactly how to keep her child healthy. Almost no one would fall ill because of their lifestyle. Because, admit it: if amma told you to do it, YOU’D DO IT!

Happy Mothers Day. 🙂


If you are a mother, and you’d love to be a part of the revolution; If you wish to ensure the health of your children by making sure that he or she has the best tools to keep them healthy physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and spiritually as they grow up, do get in touch with us for details of our Healthy Family Program, encompassing:

  • Personalised Natural Nutrition program for each member
  • Nature Connect program: Connect the Nature inside to the Nature outside. Experience what it is like to be truly connected.
  • Child Connect program: Learn to talk to kids in a way that they learn, not fight.
  • Simplified Kundalini Yoga meditation and introspection program for teenagers and adults
  • Yogic Games program for children

Get in Touch

Looking forward to hearing from you! 🙂

Be Blessed

Dr. Achyuthan Eswar

Physician – Naturopathy, Yoga and Acupuncture

Filed Under: Blog, Love and People, World Health Days

Asthma and Me – How I’m Symptom-Free with Naturopathy & Yoga

May 6, 2015 By Dr Achyuthan Eswar 2 Comments

Ankita Desai, Bengaluru

World Asthma Day is on May 5, 2015. I’d like to share with you my decades-long struggle with asthma and how I finally got rid of my symptoms.

In 1992, I contracted chicken pox. While I was still recovering from it, I contracted pneumonia. And since then, I started having asthma attacks especially during every seasonal change.

I hail from Gujarat, where season changes are very distinct unlike Bangalore. Every seasonal change brought with itself cold, cough and fever. That was followed by bouts of wheezing and breathlessness. I remember spending sleepless nights trying to catch some sleep in a sitting position.

I was given prescriptions for bronchodilators for long term effect, inhalers for immediate relief and cod liver oil capsules to improve my immunity in general. I still have the first Cipla spacer that helped improve the medication intake of inhalers.

As I grew up, the frequency of attacks remained as-is, but with proper medication, things were under better control.

In the meantime, I also identified that close encounters with dust and pollen triggered severe sneezing – almost like a case of flu. With this, anti-histamine prescriptions like Allegra and Citrizine made their way into my medicine box.

The year 1998 was special as I did not fall ill even once. The only thing that was done differently in this year was of daily consumption of 1 small spoon of turmeric in a glass of milk. It was because I was in 10th Standard and could not have afforded to fall ill.

In 2005, I moved to Bangalore. Initially the weather worked wonders for my health. No cold and no sneezing. It felt so different and free!

But by 2006, I started falling ill once again every 2 months – the cold, cough and fever were back. I consulted a general physician and he prescribed some medicine to be taken in courses. But it did not help much. The moment the course was over, it continued to fall ill.

In the meantime, I had got my first full health checkup done. Eosinophil count was high and lung capacity was low. I was recommended a consultation with pulmonologist. He prescribed certain tablets whose dosage had to be gradually tapered and then sustain with. I did not follow the prescription, tried to manage with some ayurvedic medicines I knew of and continued to fall ill.

By end of 2007, my condition had worsened so much that I could barely walk without gasping for breath. I consulted the pulmonologist once again. With a lot of concern in his voice, he told me that “By knowingly not taking care of your condition, what you have done is no less than committing suicide”. His words shook me up and from then on I followed the prescription with regular follow-ups, dosage regulations and self-monitoring through peak flow meter. Nasal spray, Inhaler and aero-spacers became my constant companions. I was doing good but regular medication was still needed.

In June 2014 it was in this state that I met Dr Achyuthan and discussed with him about asthma. His recommendations to start off with were:

  1. Every meal should have one bowl of fruit (First 1/3 of meal has to be fruits – preferably citrus fruits)
  2. One meal a day as only fruits – preferably breakfast
  3. Usage of more vegetables from gourd family
  4. Usage of more green leafy vegetables
  5. Avoid extra usage of oil and spices.
  6. Have juice (without sugar meals if hungry
  7. Things to avoid:
    1. Milk and Milk based products
    2. Wheat and wheat based products
    3. Sugar in any form – even in processed food
  8. Enema – every day

I could not follow his recommendations very well until end of 2014. But I had started making minor changes like reducing usage of oil, sugar, milk and milk products. I start seeing minor benefits. I wasn’t falling ill as often as before.

From January 2015, I started following his recommendations at least by 90% – except for the enema part! That took some time to start. And the magic unfolded not only for me to see, but for others in my family and among my friends as well.

From February till today, after I began the program to heal myself:

  1. I haven’t got cold, cough or fever. Not even one sneeze. Yippie!!
  2. I am able to do dusting without severe sneezing. It feels good to be able to work like normal people.
  3. My nose remains open most of the time. Because of this, my sense of smell seems to have returned!
  4. Despite the weather changes that we are seeing in Bangalore for some time now, touch wood – I haven’t fall ill even once.
  5. My cravings for sweets has miraculously vanished.
  6. I started enjoying eating fruits. They are much simpler to eat, digest and one feels so much more energetic.
  7. I don’t remember the last time I had to use the inhaler. And I feel confident of stepping out without carrying my inhaler.
  8. Water intake has stabilized, which has an explicit effect on better bowel movements.

All of these wonderful things happened to me only by change in my food habits. I now plan to combine it with regular exercise to get much better and faster benefits. I was so deeply impacted by what I learnt that I presented a short talk at the toastmaster’s club to show everyone how they can be healthy by eating right. Watch it here:

If I had to advise myself 20 years ago, I would recommend the following:

  1. Avoid extra usage of oil and spices – Food tastes equally good without them.
  2. Avoid milk and milk based products
  3. Avoid sugar
  4. Eat as much fruits as possible
  5. Regularly exercise
  6. Be your own doctor; listen and act to your body tells you – it knows what is good for you.

Ankita Desai Bengaluru | Dr Achyuthan Eswar Naturopathy and YogaThe author, Ankita Desai, is a software engineer at Infosys, Bengaluru, and is no more an asthma patient. She is an avid gardener and loves to speak. 

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Filed Under: Autoimmune, Blog, Diseases, Guest Blogs, World Health Days

World Health Day 2015: What did you eat today?

April 7, 2015 By Dr Achyuthan Eswar 1 Comment

Food Safety is the slogan for this year’s WHO World Health Day.

What did you eat today?

Last year, I had just finished a short fast for health reasons, a few after which some friends called me out to restaurant for dinner. We decided to eat in one of the best restaurants in Ujire – which, by the way, is not as big as you can imagine, in the small town. We sat down, poking jokes at each other and laughing over silly things, as friends do.

The waiter came, and everyone ordered what they wanted. I had initially told my friends that I would not be eating anything, but some of them were very insistent, so I asked the waiter if they had any soup without sugar. He said no, but he could get a bowl specially for me. I asked if he could get it without any added MSG, he said no, that isn’t possible, because the stock is already prepared (I was on good terms with this waiter, you see, otherwise there’s no way he would be so open!)

My friends had ordered gobi manchurian, fried rice, some side dishes and ice cream desserts. I asked if they had any starters without added colours. He said no. I asked if they had any rice items without sauces and MSG added to it (Unpolished rice was out of the question in this small town, nobody knew what it was, unfortunately. But that’s a blog for another day) and he said only jeera rice, ghee rice and curd rice! Well, dairy was unacceptable too, so I couldn’t eat any of the side dishes that were ordered, forget about the desserts.

I asked him how long back the fruits had been cut to make the fruit salads on the menu (none of which were avalable without sugar, by the way). He smiled and asked me if I really wanted to know, and I said no.

WHO World Health Day 2015 | What did you eat today? | Dr. Achyuthan Eswar Naturopathy and Yoga

What are we eating? Tasty food? Or chemical concoctions designed to kill us? Antioxidants, fiber, vitamins and minerals? Or Preservatives, colours, flavours and additives designed to make disgusting food look and taste nice, and then cause cancer and a host of other diseases?

If you’ve fasted anytime, you’d know what I’m talking about when I say it is impossible to enjoy the taste of heavily spiced food as well as processed food after a fast. It just tastes horrible. After a fast, you can only enjoy natural food – fruits, nuts and some vegetables.

The official WHO World Health Day 2015 infographic sums up every place where our food can get tampered with:

WHO World Health Day Infographic April 7 2015 | Dr. Achyuthan Eswar Naturopathy and Yoga

As we walked out after dinner, the young man mixing up some chaats in the pushcart outside the restaurant wiped his running nose on the sleeve of shirt, and a bead of sweat fell from his forehead into the vessel he was mixing it in. A friend once told me, the chaats just wouldn’t taste as good without the sweat and dirt in it.

What are we eating?

Take a packet of food from any shop. Any processed food, your favourite packet of chips, or chocolate, or a soft drink. Read the ingredients on it. There was a time when I couldn’t pronounce half of them. I quickly learnt, though. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, they say.

Dr. Patch Adams, founder of the famous Gesundheit! Institute said, “People are not interested in food, they’re not interested in health, they’re not interested in happiness. They’re interested in hair, they’re interested in clothes, in cars, in boots.” You deserve the best, your body deserves the best. That’s why we buy all these things, don’t we? What about the food we eat? Shouldn’t that also be the best?

I met a Frenchman today, a good friend of my parents. He said something that summed up what we’re doing to ourselves: “Good food has become a luxury”. Let us stop settling for third-grade, empty food. Let us start eating what we deserve – the best food on the planet. Eat Natural. #foodsafety

Join us for a healthy eating workshop to learn more about how you can heal yourself and be healthy.

 

Be Blessed

Dr. Achyuthan Eswar

Naturopathy, Yoga and Acupuncture Physician

Filed Under: Blog, Nutrition, World Health Days

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