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Aches & Pains? – Use the balm of diet
Did you know that the right diet could be the best way to relieve the pains permanently? Watch some of our participants share how it’s helped them.
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Mixed Vegetable Salad with Coconut Mustard Dressing
A dressing can do wonders to a salad. Find out how by whipping up this easy yet delicious salad, which is nutritious and filling too.
Ingredients
- 2 medium-sized unpeeled cucumbers
- 1 small 2” x 4” pc unpeeled yellow pumpkin (kaddu)
- 1 green bell pepper (green capsicum)
- 1 yellow bell pepper (yellow capsicum)
- 1 red bell pepper (red capsicum)
- 1 large or 2 small unpeeled carrots, chopped into small cubes
- 1 medium-sized unpeeled white radish (optional), chopped into small cubes
- 2 medium-sized zucchini, chopped into small cubes
- 15-20 tender ivy gourd (tindora/ tendli), diced thin and diagonally
- 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh coriander leaves, for the garnish
For the Dressing
- 1½ cups grated fresh coconut
- 1¼ tbsp ground mustard (rai)
- ¼ tsp black pepper (kali mirch) powder
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp unrefined salt
Method
Mix all vegetables together in a bowl.
For the dressing, grind together coconut, mustard, pepper powder, lemon juice and salt to a smooth paste. Mix the dressing with the vegetables. Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves and serve.
Serves 8
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Aches and Pains
Here are a few tips to help heal those aches and pains.
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1. Check your posture
Slumping and slouching while walking or sitting, uncomfortable desks, chairs, or soft beds need to be looked into. Sometimes props such as neck collars or waist belts and bands can help.
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2. Rest
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If a part is painful check if the pain increases or decreases while moving. If the pain increases, avoid those movements that cause the pain. Especially after an injury, allow the part to heal.
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3. Exercise
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If the pain is not worse with movement, physiotherapy can help. So can gentle stretches and yoga. It’s best to do this with the help of an expert. Avoiding movement for too long can result in disuse atrophy of the muscles leading to lower mobility. For weight bearing joints sometimes exercise in water helps..
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4. Check vitamin D levels
Low vitamin D levels can affect both muscles and bones. Vitamin D is essential for calcium metabolism. Check vitamin D levels annually at least, and supplement with the advice of a doctor. Excess vitamin D is as harmful as the lack of it is.
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5. Check vitamin B12 levels
Vitamin B 12 deficiency can result in frozen shoulders or other neurological problems resulting in pain.
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6. Improve the circulation to the part
This can be done by opening up those arteries through a low fat high fibre diet which makes the blood thinner and helps dissolve the intra-arterial plaque. Smoking should be avoided.
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7. Minimise the free radicals and maximise the anti-oxidants
Free radicals increase the inflammatory quotient in the arteries and antioxidants decrease them. Avoid all animal products to minimise the free radicals. At the same time increase plant-based foods that are full of antioxidants that have the opposite effect.
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8. Avoid chemicals in food
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Many chemicals increase the inflammatory response. These chemicals may be found in foods grown with pesticides, packaged foods that contain preservatives, refined foods such as oils and sugar which contain the chemicals used to refine them. Always choose high quality nutrient dense foods.
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9. Avoid chemicals in personal care products
Medicines, toothpaste, soaps, shampoos, hair dyes, lotions, perfumes, cosmetics, deodorants, hand-sanitizers etc. can all be a source of chemicals entering our body adding to inflammation quotient of the body
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10. Avoid chemicals in home care products
Air fresheners, mosquito repellents, incense, detergents, fabric softeners, surface cleaners, may enter our body through inhalation or touch.
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11. Weight loss
Weight loss often helps in pains of the weight bearing joints. A whole plant based diet is the first step to healthy weight loss.
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12. Avoid acid yielding foods
Avoid acid yielding foods like tea, coffee, colas, alcohol and all high proteins like meat, fish, eggs and dairy as they leach calcium from the body. Have more alkaline foods like fruits and vegetables.
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13. Minimise medications
Minimise medications and maximise on nutrition to reap long term benefits rather than short term gains.
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