Recipe Cinnamon Milk

Milk is one of the most misunderstood fluid these days. Milk remains an offering to the gods for an answer to our prayers, but when it comes to milk as an offering to our stomach, a certain hesitation takes over. Many fitness enthusiasts I meet automatically mark that they have an allergy to it on …

Recipe Ashwagandha Milk

Stress is a silent killer that is now rooted deep into our systems, and what makes it dangerous is that we are almost always unaware of it. Sometimes it’s the stress to achieve, or it’s the stress to retain or the stress of coping with a loss. No matter where we are in life, there’s no room for com…

Recipe Coconut Water

This desi drink is something I thought I would never need to defend until I started my practice in Delhi. The number of people who called it fattening was rather shocking. Once a lady almost cried after a 20-minute-long fact check comparing sugar-free frozen yoghurt to coconut water. There are 39 c…

Recipe Coriander Seeds Water

This one is a dieter’s delight, a morning ritual for instant weight loss. Those numbers can govern our mood, energy and self-worth. Now there goes an error in judgement; our body weight is a limited measure to evaluate fitness. But there’s still something to the kilos that makes us take desperate m…

Recipe Mulberry Juice

Every time we hear the word ‘berry’, our mind automatically goes ‘healthy’, so it should come as no surprise that mulberry makes it to the superfood list. This sounds very foreign, but it is more commonly known as shahtoot in India. It is a desi super fruit that can give any exotic berry a run for …

Wheatgrass Juice

Popping up everywhere, from fancy juice bars to your neighbourhood park, wheatgrass juice is an old player in the world of natural health. It comes from the freshly sprouted leaves of the wheat plant that are usually harvested in 7–10 days, after sprouting. It is traditionally sown in India as khet…

Bael Juice

Bael juice is a summer solace that can rescue us from the scorching sun. The cooling effect of this hard-shelled fruit is not just restricted to heat relief for the body but is believed to bring calmness to the mind. It’s known as Shiva’s (the hot-tempered deity) favourite fruit, so much so that wo…

Watermelon Juice

Pharmacies have never looked so colourful and friendly before, thanks to a new rage for skin care and nutraceutical products. If you have been distracted by those tempting claims, you might have stumbled upon a whole array of functional extracts that go beyond the regular vitamin, mineral and prote…

Buttermilk

When we think weight loss, we think of restriction and cutting out the calories. Then begins the game of willpower; some people might also think of gaining weight as a lack of discipline or just a simple culmination of bad choices. But if you think about it, how free is our free will? Aren’t our ch…

Jamun Juice

Indian blackberry or jamun is a purplish mix of sweet and sour with a tinge of astringent-like taste and numerous health benefits. They say get busy living or get busy dying; well, we are busy for sure, but with a mix of both. We cannot let go of habits that are slowly killing us so we have the hop…