He was so healthy, how could it happen?

I have a friend named Shashank.  He looks like a college student even though he has left college 10 years ago. For years, I kept observing Shashank’s eating habits. He seemed to follow no principles of health whatsoever, he ate out frequently, he went to parties, he did all the things that would give me 10 extra kilos around my …

Is The Alkaline Diet Vegan?

Whenever I address a gathering about the Alkaline Diet, someone in the audience almost always asks me this question, “Is the Alkaline Diet Vegan?”. The answer to which is slightly more complicated than Yes or No. Why? This is because of how you categorize the alkaline diet. If you look at it as a diet, then yes, it is vegan …

Is Lethargy Holding You Back From Exploring Your Passions?

We’ve all been there, back from office, just drop dead onto the couch, feeling like “Let me sleep like a log”. Have you ever had that experience? Chances are, you have and more importantly, that is the reason you are not working on your passions. Imagine if Einstein had just relaxed on the couch, what would he have achieved? Today, …

Is the Alkaline Diet, really a Diet?

Sometimes people are confused with what a diet is, they think that a diet is a temporary thing where you eat certain foods for certain period of time for a desired result like weight loss. Now, while this may be the perceived definition of a diet, a diet is the food you eat. Period. That’s it, if you eat rotis …

Alkalinity Enriched Life

Continuing on from last week’s post, I want to write more on this topic of Healthier, and how eating alkaline or following even a couple of alkaline practices can keep you in far better health than average normal people. Consider this, average normal people, eat whatever they’ve been eating traditionally, occasionally they try out some new foods, and reject most …

Health Fanatic Vs Healthy Person

The title may confuse you a bit, probably because you may think they are the same thing.Well, to clearly demarcate the territories of the people mentioned above, I’ve written this post. Let me first describe each of the above people and later get into what are the pros and cons. Firstly, a health fanatic is a person who puts paramount …

Support System

The challenge that most people have(myself included) is that nobody will support your diet, or your exercise, or anything new. Let me give you an example , you want to eat clean, but your roommates(family/friends) probably don’t want to change their eating habits and want you to follow the same habits as before so it doesn’t create differences. They may …

Habits, Food Habits

Reflecting on my habit of eating a salad every single day without fail, I thought “What is it that makes me eat this salad every day?”, the first answer was, “Because my mom made it.”, but after a little more thought, it dawned on me that I put things in perspective a long time before I actually ate that meal. …

Alkaline Bananas: A Superb Snack

Woah!, I was just looking at the calendar to see how many days are left in May and I saw another whole week. 5 Fridays in this May, that means 5 posts. As you know, I keep alkaline eating easy, I don’t go into complex exotic recipes involving half a dozen fruits half of which you won’t find in India …

Apple: The Alkaline Fruit

Continuing strong with our articles about specific alkaline foods, the fruit for today is Apple. After having discussed 2 veggies over the past 2 weeks, I find that a fruit is the necessary sweet required to maintain the balance. Apples are amazing fruits, I like many things about them. Firstly  that they are sweet, secondly that they have almost no …