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 …

How does it feel?

Every single day, I have someone or the other asking me about how I can live off of salads. I simply reply, I’m used to it. They question why I eat salads, they say it’s unnecessary, say health isn’t such a big deal. Well, every time someone speaks about such things, I never preach to them about health or about …

Weight Loss

The main reason 90% of people get into healthy eating or diets is for weight loss. They are not aware of what they feel like because it’s so normal to feel drowsy and low on energy. After they do get into health,  most people never actually track everything to the tee. They eat healthy sometimes and eat junk other times, …

Milk: Acid or Alkaline

Milk is Acidic A big thing in vegetarian diets is whether or not milk and dairy products fall into the vegetarian category. But today, that’s not our focus. We’re looking at it from another perspective, from the perspective of an alkaline lifestyle. Before we go further into details, we need to understand that when we speak about milk or about …

Breathing & it’s effect on Digestion

Hey guys, Although breathing isn’t exactly alkaline or acidic, it has a very important role to play in digestion and in the alkaline lifestyle. Let me take you through some facts about breathing and let’s look at where most people stand in case of breathing. Breathing is the process of taking in oxygen, well, it’s more than that, but we …

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 …

Cucumbers: The Alkaline Food

Continuing with the theme of the month of alkaline recipes, the veggie* for this week is the cucumber. Alkaline inside and out, cucumbers make for awesome alkaline foods. They are light, fill your tummy and they are alkaline, what more could you ask for? Well, before you say ‘taste’, let me accept the fact that cucumbers don’t taste all that …

Tomatoes Alkaline Possibilities

With the beginning of a new month, let’s go deeper into specific fruits and veggies that we can use every single day in some form or another.It’s never possible to continuously create new recipes and try new veggies, we need to find something that works and repeat it over time. For the first week of May, let’s pick tomatoes, tomatoes are everywhere, …

Forced Cheating

The title maybe surprising, perhaps even curious, but I was forced to eat some foods that I shouldn’t be eating during the last 2 weeks. I had my wisdom teeth extracted, I thought it was a simple procedure, but it involved a general surgeon, and him pulling out my teeth and the consequences, well, eat cold ice cream or curd …

Impact of An Alkaline Diet on Daily Life

A thought dawned on me the other day, I asked myself ‘Why eat Alkaline?’, I found that this is a very important question that most of us have. A question that you must have answered in some way which led to starting or continuing the diet. Let’s look at why we eat alkaline and why we should continue to eat …