The belief in Ayurveda is 'We are what we eat'.
Good diet is of prime importance to health. It not only helps to maintain the body's vitality, but also has a great effect on the well-being of the mind. According to Ayurveda, a truly healthy human being is the one who has a strong body a sound mind and equally sound soul.
The food we eat is also medicinal and helps us to feel strong and grounded. Wholesome and natural unprocessed foods are the best nourishment we can offer ourselves. It is ironic how something as obvious as nutrition has become overlooked in the health care systems and how in the name of convenience, our fast paced society has given way to fast foods, microwaves, quick fix medicines and eating on the run.
Fortunately, there is a growing focus in the importanceof nutrition and its role in maintaining good health.
A calorie not just a calorie when it comes to your health
Although food provide us with energy, but they do much more than that. The foods you include in your diet also play a critical role in controlling inflammation levels, balancing blood sugar, regulating cardiovascular health (including blood pressure and cholesterol levels), helping the digestive organs to process and eliminate waste and much, much more.
Perhaps more than anything else in our lives, the foods we regularly eat help determine whether or not we will become ill or remain healthy into older age. Vegetables, fruit, meat, oils or grains all the foods contain influential substances including antioxidants, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, fibre and much more.
The principles behind food as medicine is based on fact that our genes play a role in development or prevention of a disease and a poor diet can be a serious risk factor for many diseases. Also, the toxic chemicals and deficient nutrients in low-quality foods have an effect on human gene expressions. Although each person is different in terms of how much their genes / health are impacted by their diet but a healthy and a personalized diet can be used to prevent, mitigate or cure chronic diseases. Nutrient deficiencies and toxicity from a poor diet are linked to nearly all modern health conditions.
Nourishing yourself correctly is the first and primary way to achieve good health. This has a positive impact on many levels of the body and beyond. This help in developing a healthy mind and energetic body, increases longevity and enhance the quality of life.
Forhealth and longevity in Ayurveda, India’s ancient science of life, food plays a prominent role in promoting health and is therefore considered a medicine. From an Ayurvedic perspective, one of the important key to maintain optimal health and to support the healing process, is to help the body eliminate toxins to re-establish constitutional balance. To achieve this, Ayurveda emphasizes the importance of proper nutrition through proper herbal nutrition,food choices, food combinations, cooking methods - all based on the specific needs of the individual and any current imbalance of the doshasor bio-energies.
Diet is one of the most important Ayurvedic tools for achieving this balance. Therefore a good diet is of prime importance. It not only helps to maintain the body's health and vitality, but also has a great effect on the well-being of the mind. Thus, eating right helps to alleviate the Obesity and other disorders.
Ayurveda classifies various types of food like vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, etc. on the basis of their energies and the effect that they have on the body and mind. This can help us in choosing the foods that are good for your individual constitution, while avoiding the ones that are likely to be harmful to you.
Diet should be given maximum importance in healthy as well as diseased status. We believe that if proper diet is followed, medicine is not needed, and if proper diet is not observed, medicines are not that helpful.
What we do?
At our clinic we are effectively managing and treating various diseases and medical conditions as Digestive Disorders, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease, Cholesterol Imbalances, PCOD /PCOS, Insulin resistance, IBS, Thyroid Disorders, Post Angioplasty, post Coronary Artery Bypass, Fatty Liver, Liver Cirrhosis, Renal Failure, Post Kidney Transplant management, post Hysterectomy issues and we do help in diets related for Pregnancy or Post Pregnancy or Lactating mothers.
The response of the weight loss is evident in terms of weight drop and loss in measurements but for the health issues, we encourage to get some of the investigations to be done or to be repeated after certain time interval so that the improvements can be marked and monitored.
In Diabetes the HbA1c is repeated, for Hypertension a regular monitoring of BP shows the improvement, for Dyslipidemia or Hypercholesterolemia – subsequent Lipid Profiles will show the improvement. Similarly for PCOD / PCOS / Hyperinsulinemia or Insulin resistance by repeating the blood tests and repeating the ultrasonography in PCOD / PCOS marks the improvement.
At our clinic the diets are planned only after a roper evaluation based on various parameters and we do take into account your previous weight loss endeavors, medical history, family history of diseases and medical issues you have faced or are facing.
We are Ayurveda Doctors and very keen learners and proponents of modern advances in field of nutrition and health. We look at the imbalances in the body. These imbalances can slow the metabolic activities and can lead you to various disorders. Once we address these imbalances with the help of herbs or food groups, your metabolism gets better and you gain health. The diet plans and the herbs recommended, help to correct the irregularities at the elemental nature of the body, help to correct the metabolism and help to improve health.Along with the diet plans, we may recommend you some common traditionally known natural herbs / herbal preparations to improvise the internal health condition.
We are Ayurveda Doctors by profession so your health is foremost importance to us. The diets have to achieve much more than that meet eyes. If you are not nutritionally compromised, you feel better, more energetic and lighter from within and your metabolism is better.
In our program we will be telling you how to maintain the delicate balance of body and to eat in accordance. You don't have to learn rocket science for this. It’s related to simple things in every day’s diet pattern.
What’s the benefit of this program?
The major culprit lies in the food which you are eating or choosing. Here, we are empowering you and we are helping you to understand the effect / response / interaction of food and herbs to your body. Once you know the effect of food and what foods are 'good' for you, we are sure that you will be able to maintain your health for years to come.