Food can heal most common ailments. It can improve our mood, activate our brain cells to perform better, retain information and help us to think sharp. It can cure insomnia and lull our agitated mind, make our joints more flexible, make us feel full of beans and youthful, improve our eyesight and retard the formation of cataract. It can increase hormone level, boost immunity, relax the taut nerves, soothe the pains and aches, and retard ageing. A small amount of garlic taken every day can provide immunity against many kinds of cancer; onion can lower blood cholesterol and regulate blood sugar. The lycopene in tomatoes can ward off cancer. Green tea can improve memory and delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Food affects not just our body but also the mind and the soul. The right food can bring peace to the mind and elevate the soul to a spiritual level. On the other hand, the wrong kind of food can trigger allergies, cause headaches and exacerbate the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. Wrong food is the main cause for heart disease. If you are one of those who think of food as sustenance only, think again. This book will help in dispelling most of the myths connected with food and help you in using food as a potent healer. It will also help you in controlling most of the lifestyle diseases that have sprung up in the last two decades. This book is meant to act as food for thought and activate the mind into selecting the right food for optimum benefit. It aims to help build an intelligent approach towards food selection and to equip you will food wisdom.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tanushree Podder
Tanushree Podder, a management graduate, has specialised in Labour Law and Human Resource. She has debbled in varied fields like beauty, education, Reiki, Vipassana, pranic healing and Yoga. Lately, she has been studying the various alternative therapies used in India and abroad. Tanushree has been writing for the past twenty-eight years. Her writings have been published in almost all leading newspapers and magazines in the country, some of which are The Times of India, the Hindustan Times, the Indian Express, the Deccan Herald, The Hindu, the Femina, the Week, the Outlook Traveller, the Eve's Weekly, the Savvy, the Society, the New Woman, the Woman's Era, the Health and Beauty, etc. She has been writing on diverse subjects ranging from travel, fiction, health and fitness, sprituality, beauty and relationships. She has worked for Larsen and Toubro Limited and Magna Publishing Co., besides setting up a woman's portal called evetimes. com in which she was an editor and content manager. She is also involved with India Development Foundation and Asha, which are two bodies that serve the society. Besides her involvement in social work, she is often invited to speak at various seminars on social issues. Tanushree has widely travelled all around the country with her husband who is an army officer and has contributed travelouges for various publications. She visited Switzerland and Malaysia on invitation of the respective tourism boards. She has written fourteen books on various subjects like alternative therapies, health, fitness, relationships, management and nutrition. Tanushree's interests vary from music to reading, traveling, and community work.
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