You Are What You Eat: Its about how your body responds physically, mentally and spiritually to your food habits
Book Specification
| Item Code: | IDF802 |
| Author: | Tanushree Podder |
| Publisher: | PUSTAK MAHAL |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2010 |
| ISBN: | 9788122307726 |
| Pages: | 180 (B/W Figures:32) |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 8.5" X 5.5" |
| Weight | 250 gm |
Book Description
Did you know that food could heal cure elevate moods improve memory make the brain sharper provide us with potent energy and fill us with vigour.
Food has been discovered to be the greatest natural pharmacy that is available to human beings.
The right food can help us perform to our peak capacity while the wrong food can lead us towards disease and ill health.
The ordinary cabbage and cauliflower could ward off the possibility of cancer, tomatoes can effectively take care of free radicals in today's environment and carrots can provide you with the essential beta-carotene to fight off many diseases. It is surprising how effectively food can alleviate most of our common ailments.
The mysteries of the power of food and the secrets of food elements have been unraveled so that you can use food for other benefits rather than just appeasing hunger.
About the Author:
She is a management graduate has specialized in Labour Laws and HR. Her thirst for knowledge led her to make forays into varied fields like beauty, Education, Vipassana, Pranic Healing and Yoga.
She is a freelance journalist who has for the past twenty years written more than 1000 articles and short stories for a range of national dailies and magazines on various subjects like human relationship, health, humour etc.
Her other books which have been well appreciated are: over 1000 Household Hints, Indian Cuisine, Beauty Solutions, Fit an Fine in Body & Mind, The Magic of Massage, Secrets of Happiness, Smart Memory, Youthful Forever and the Secret of Marital Bliss
| Preface | 7 | |
| 1 | The Role of Food in our Body | 9 |
| Food Philosophies | 10 | |
| Some Macrobiotic Lifestyle Suggestion | 16 | |
| Change Your Menu as Per the Season | 19 | |
| The Ayurvedic Philosophy | 22 | |
| Tibetan Dietary Therapy | 27 | |
| Traditional Chinese Diet Therapy | 28 | |
| The Increasing Shift Towards Vegetarianism | 32 | |
| Healthful Soy | 35 | |
| 2 | Foods That Heal | 39 |
| Juice Power | 48 | |
| Recent research on Food Power | 50 | |
| The Healing Power | 57 | |
| 3 | Foods That Can Make Us More Intelligent | 71 |
| Memory And The Brain | 72 | |
| What Are free Radicals | 73 | |
| Memory Food | 84 | |
| 4 | Foods That Elevate Our Moods | 86 |
| Dealing with Depression | 89 | |
| Foods That De-stress | 91 | |
| 5 | Unhealthy Food | 94 |
| Food and Allergy | 121 | |
| 6 | The Anti-ageing food Plan | 123 |
| An Anti-ageing secret | 125 | |
| The 12 top Anti-ageing Foods | 130 | |
| 7 | The Yin And Yang Of Food | 135 |
| Foods to be Avoided | 139 | |
| Special Diets | 140 | |
| Low Triglyceride Diet | 140 | |
| Low Cholesterol Diet | 141 | |
| Five Foods for Better Health | 145 | |
| Five Energy-draining Habits | 147 | |
| Fruitful Facts | 148 | |
| Food for Vitality and Vigour | 154 | |
| Aphordisiac Foods | 165 | |
| Table 1 | 173 | |
| Table 2 | 174 | |
| Table 3 | 175 |
