A culinary guide to eating well the healthy way. Ayurveda, a holistic science, has a distinct food culture which stresses the underlying unity among the three principal humours in the body-vata, pitta and kapha. The humours, responsible for all the physical and mental functions, are derived from the five elements of nature-ether, air, fire, water and earth. Our food in the form of various rasas or tastes is also made from these five elements. A balance has to be struck between the five elements of the body and the five elements of the body and the five elements of the food we eat. Eating Right the Natural Way: Ayurvedic Recipes for a Healthy Life explores these and dwells on the relationship between an individual’s constitution and factors like food, climate and stress. It shows how vital it is to eat the correct combination of food products to achieve balance in the body and rejuvenate it. Eating Right the Natural Way: Ayurvedic Recipes for a Healthy Life stresses that food cooked according to the Ayurvedic way is neither insipid nor boring. By planning meals intelligently, and with the judicious addition of specific herbs and spices, one can eat anything and everything and yet not compromise on nutrition. Informative and accessible, the book contains a wealth of recipes, from beverages to main course to desserts. Together with traditional recipes, the author has included many others that she has improvised and perfected over the years: Paprika, Broccoli and Ginger Rice, Endive Salad with Nuts, Mixed Herb Chutney and Chena Mithai, to name only a few. Based on Ayurvedic principles, the recipes are meant not only to delight the palate but also to create a sense of harmony in the body.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vinod Verma
Dr. Vinod Verma assimilated yoga and Ayurveda from her father and grandmother. She earned a Ph.D. in Reproduction Biology from Panjab University, Chandigarh and a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of Paris (old Sorbonne). She got her training in Neurobiology from the prestigious National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, and worked at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, Germany. At the peak of career with a pharmaceutical company in Germany, Dr. Verma realized that the modern Western approach to health is fragmented, illogical and uni-dimentional (non-holistic). The mental and spiritual aspects are lacking and all our resources are put in curing diseases rather than trying to stay healthy. She returned to her traditional past, studied Patanjali and other texts on yoga and learnt the scriptural tradition of Ayurveda from her Ayurvedic guru, Acharya Priya Vrat Sharma. A Scientific Exposition of Patanjali’s Yogasutras was her first book that she began writing in 1986 and after years of research, this book was published in 1996. She has written seven more books on yoga, Ayurveda and Women’s health and these books are published in different languages of the world. Dr. Verma founded The New Way Health Organisation in 1986 to spread the message of holistic health care and spiritual living. She is totally dedicated to revive the spiritual tradition of yoga and integrate it with Ayurveda for health and healing. She hosts seminars, lectures and workshops and has been interviewed on TV and radio programmes all over the world. She has made a film on Ayurveda in collaboration with German television and this film has been shown in 130 languages in 100 different countries. She has also numerous scientific papers published in international journals.
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