Health Benefits of Salad

Health Benefits of Salad

Salad is very common thing that we take on day to day basis, in different forms like either raw, or boiled or roasted. In our Country, It is prepared from fresh raw vegetable materials like cucumber, tomato, radish, beetroot, carrot and onion. Since the ingredients tend to be raw in nature and beside onion, many of them can be taken separately, hence it is not advisable to have Salad with main course of meal, but sadly today young generation does have minimal knowledge of our tradition.

If you are eyeing on controlling the weight, have this in below prescribed way for optimum benefits.

Eating Salad is very useful and have positive impact on our health, we all agree with this fact. Therefore, from fruits to vegetable and all sorts of sprouts are always in demand. However some people and specifically those great admirer of Salads are not able to provide optimum nutritional value of Salad to their health just because of the fact that they don't know the "Proper" way it should be taken. Let us take a high level glance of some facts that is helpful for our health and provide maximum benefits of having Salad.

Right Time to have Salad

Salad should always be taken before any meal, however 90 percent of us take it during  the meal or main course only, which is not able to provide optimum benefits that it brings to our health. Having salad during meal even causes indigestion sometimes.

Try to maintain the difference between Salad and Main Course

When you are feeling hungry or whatever time you have fixed for lunch or dinner, try to eat salad at-least half an hour before that time. After maintaining this thirty minutes window, or at-least 20 - 25 minutes in case you can't wait, have the main course. This will provide you the full nutritional value to your health and will help you control over eating as well.

It helps in keeping weight under bracket.
Salad, if taken in proper and routine manner, it not only helps in controlling the weight but keep our digestive system in order, helps in cleaning of stomach. It helps in preventing extra calories and fats to be accumulated in our body and saves us from overeating consequently which in turn help keep weight under control.

Ways to Prepare Salad

In normal matter of course, It is prepared in one of the two manner. First one being Raw material way in which we mix fruits and vegetable chopped in pieces and dress/sprinkle with some spices such as Chat masala, Jeera (Cumin) powder. While second way is to prepare after mild boiling, in which vegetables are boiled and water is filtered out and then salad is prepared, this way people believe that it helps in combating or sanitizing any germs or fungus that might be present with or within raw vegetables. Irrespective of the way it is prepared, we should avoid it with main course.

Why Salad should not overlap with Main course ?

Irrespective of the way Salad is prepared, it's nature is cold while nature of the food is warm. When we take warm and cold things together, our digestive system have to work a bit harder to digest the same. Since it requires more energy and time to digest both food, many times it compromises the entire process and hence leads to more trouble like overeating, not feeling hunger at right time, and change of eating schedule.

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Health Benefits of Ajwain :

Ajwain, also known as carom seeds, has been used as natural herb for curing the ailments of stomach and digestion related problem for a long time. If one is looking to reduce the fat, it is advised to intake water in the morning which has remain immersed with Ajwain overnight.

Fat/Fatty Lever/Obesity has been very common kind of problem. Almost everyone has sooner or later been impacted by this at-least once in a lifetime, be it after pregnancy or some other stage of life. Whereas some people choose Gym while some other chooses dieting in order to control the extra fat. But you will be surprised to know that home based remedies can help reduce the Obesity to a greater extent that too without wasting too much of time and sweat and Ajwain is one of the effective and tried and tested solution to curb this problem. It is available in almost all kitchen and it is full of medical advantage and health benefits. Ajwain not only provides relief from the stomach and body pain but is very effective in reducing the weight as well.

Ajwain is Ayurvedic Medicine/Herb :

Ajwain has been used as medicine to cure the ailments related to stomach and digestion from time immemorial. Ajwain in taste is bitter just like Neem or Bitter melon/bitter gourd known as Karela in Hindi. But despite being bitter in taste, it is full of medical benefits. It's not only helpful in curing many ailments but helps great in reducing the weight as well. Seeds of Ajwain is feature rich in Thymol which is a strong germicide, strong anti-bacterial and fungicide, anti spasmodic. Thymol is also used in antiseptic effect in toothpaste, flavor in cough drops, mouth washes, gargles and perfumery. Thymol in Ajwain help improve the digestive system by facilitating the release of gastric juices.

How Does Ajwain help in reducing Weight ?

Ajwain help in ousting of the toxic elements from body thus improving the metabolic system which consequently improves digestion. Beside this It helps body absorb and utilize the nutritional value of diet. It does not let the fats accumulation in body and burns the extras calories, thus reducing the overall weight. Ajwain is also feature rich in Vitamin and Calcium which provides required strength to bones during workout.

How to Consume Ajwain ?

Leave the Ajwain seeds to remain immersed in one glass of water in night, and in the morning, boil it for few seconds to make it Luke warm. If your forgot to put Ajwain in water overnight, you can also boil it for some seconds in morning as well. Now filter the Ajwain out from water using the same way we filter tea, and take this water in empty stomach, something very first in the morning.

For better result in timely bound manner, 25 gm. of Ajwain is said to be sufficient for mixing in one glass of water for whole night. Beside this, since there is no side effect of Ajwain provided that it is consumed in limited quantity, it can be consumed in daily diet (as spice or direct mix) as well if one dislike the bitterness of Ajwain water in the morning. If this activity is taken up on daily basis, you should notice the positive difference in 15 to 20 days.

Side effects of excessive use  vs.  Benefits of Regular use of Ajwain :

Ajwain, as said above, is a kind of ayurvedic medicine, and hence it should be consumed as medicine and not as a diet.If you want to loose wait, you will have to be regular and disciplined in the consumption of Ajwain, it's not going to show miracle over the night, and in normal matter of course, it takes time to show results, so you should be patient and keep calm and be regular. Consumption of Ajwain in excess can cause acidity or some sort of burning sensation in stomach. It is also not advised to consume during any stage of pregnancy.

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What things need to be taken care of during Chaitra ?

What is Chaitra/Chait/Choitro ?

• Chaitra is the first month  of the Hindu calendar. In the standard Hindu calendar and India's national civil calendar, It is the first month of the year.
• Chaitra or Chait is also the last month in the Nepali calendar (the Vikram Samvat), where it commences in mid-March
• It is the last month in the Bengali calendar, where it is called Choitro. 

Take care of these thigns during Chaitra : 

This year, i.e., 2020, It's started on 10th of March, It is not only marked as beginning of first month of new year, but from religious standpoint, it is regarded as auspicious and important. People says that It has been named Chaitra as it belongs to Chitra Nakshatra (Star). It is an end to Spring and beginning of Summer. We know that Hindu Culture and rituals have always shown the path of spirituality, the way we can lead our life and avoid lots of problem in day to day life. 

Lets discuss some activities that are advised either to be taken or debarred from being taken during this holy month :

1. In the modern era of double door fridge and electronic advancement, we tend to prefer to have foods which have been cooked a long back. There is significant difference between the time when it was prepared/cooked and the time when it is being consumed. There are many examples from our day to day life, fast food like Burger/Pizza/Sandwich/etc and from home meal like something cooked yesterday or day before yesterday. Sad to say, but we should avoid this as far as possible as advised by Hindu and various regional Calendar. If we look at this from scientific point of view, our health is said to deteriorate when we choose stale food over fresh one.
2. In the month of Chaitra, there is holy festival of Navratra, and hence we should gradually decrease consumption of newly produced grains. In many places across India, people do keep fast all 9 days of Navratri.
3. In this month, we should avoid Jaggery and all items that is made from it. It's  because Jaggery nature tends to be warm due to the say its its is prepared. 
4. Beside this, Chewing the few delicate Neem leaves is very helpful. It's is said to be the natural blood purifier and believed to cure many ailments. If we are not able to consume or chew it directly, we can mix or use the same in any vegetable that we love, for e.g., In Mithilanchal, there is popular variant of Neem leaves getting fried with Brinjal.
5. We should increase the intake of Liquid items, specially water so that body does not become dehydrated due to change in weather.
6. We should increase the intake of of Fruits in day to day consumption, like raw Fruits or Fruits salad.
7. Taking Grams in any form preferably germinated grams and sprouts are very fruitful.
8. In this month, we should avoid the alcohol and alcohol based product as it increase the acidity drastically. Consumption of non-veg is also discouraged.
9. Many people across India avoid the hair cutting or nail clipping during the festival season of Navratri.
10. In the first half of Chaitra, many people tend to avoid the use of Leather based items like belt, shoes, purse etc, simply because the marking of auspicious holy festival.

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