Rakesh Sethi, BS, CAHP
Wellness Speaker/ Author/
Ayurvedic Practitioner
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Simple Secret to Health: You Are What You Digest
Health and wellness subject matter is my passion. In my years of practice I have discovered one simple secret you are what you digest! Your wellness plan must be designed around your unique mind body constitution by selecting foods, herbs, & spices that favor your uniqueness. Here the right eating to promote health takes on a whole new meaning. You can read more about my professional services and products on achieving true wellness at workplace and in your life.
One size doesn’t fit all so what may be healthy food for one person may not be so good for another. The old saying “you are what you eat” needs to alter a bit to “you are what you digest”. To have an optimum digestion, you must eat foods suitable to your body constitution. In Ayurvedic context- it is selecting and eating foods to suit your Physio-psychological (mind-body) constitution. The Ayurvedic intelligence stems from an age old proven Natural Medical system of Ayurveda. Ayurveda (ai-ur-veyda) is health management system. See more Ayurveda tips for good health in another article.
Here I am focusing on the physical body and how to keep it balanced and healthy. I’ve put together a free mini-course outlining simple ways to help you get started quickly. Everybody is built with unique Mind-body constitution. You must discover yours.
This FREE course is designed to teach you the essentials of Ayurvedic science; what is body constitution, how many different types are there, how to take a test to assess your body constitution. Right eating means not only selecting healthy foods but those healthy foods that are favorable for your unique body constitution digestive ability. So on this basis, you are what you digest.
In this FREE ‘Mini’ Course, You’ll Learn:
- The #1 most overlooked factor when it comes to preventive care and promoting health (balance) in body systems…
- 3 dominant energies that pulsate in every one of us and are present in different proportions…
- What makes you and every one else unique…
- What does balance means in a person and what is balance for one person may not be a balance for another person…
- How to determine and assess your own unique Mind-Body constitution
- One size doesn’t fit all. You must select suitable foods as per your Mind-Body constitution type- you are what you digest…
I would highly recommend you to take this first step to lifetime wellness. Right eating as per Ayurveda promotes optimum digestion which is a cornerstone of preventive care. This is a foundation for building and promoting health and true wellness naturally. Should you decide to access this free mini course, you will receive the first lesson immediately via email and followed by a new lesson everyday till the last lesson is delivered.
Be Well,
Rakesh Sethi, BS, CAHP
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Health Benefits of Ginger and How Much to Take Everyday
Most of us know of ginger but have you ever wondered about the health benefits of ginger? And I certainly hope many of you are already consuming daily in your diet. If you are not then after reading this article, you will be inspired to take it DAILY. For those who are already using it will find numerous health benefits of ginger in this article. Wellness coaches in USA are quickly learning about ginger and suggesting it to their clients. And why not, any person desiring right eating would take this to heart and develop recipes with it or order food with ginger. Ginger has been part of food & medicine in eastern cultures for thousands of years.
Almost anyone can take ginger and more than likely will have some benefit in some part of their body systems. Take a look at the following several health benefits of ginger:
- Increases circulation, supports heart health, generally benefits the cardiovascular system, and improves serum triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, & VLDL –cholesterol levels. It lowers blood fats, reduces LDL oxidation, (lower cholesterol without drugs) and prevents arterial plaque. Note the improvements were enhanced when the ginger was combined with garlic.
- Promotes digestion, cures upset stomach, reduces or eliminate motion sickness and nausea. Ginger facilitates in movement of food through the GI tract and helps in empting the stomach in less time. This is a great benefit for people feeling abdominal discomfort, flatulence, burping, and bloating.
- Reduces pain in arthritis, especially osteoarthritis, when used topically along with massaging cold & non lubricated joints with sesame oil
- Reduces phlegm in the lungs and comforts during colds
- Eliminates morning sickness in pregnant women just by taking 1000-1500mg of dry ginger
- Reduces or eliminates pain in joints and carpel tunnel simply by wrapping the area with strips of cooked fresh ginger and leaving it overnight
- Burns toxins in the GI tract and increases secretion of digestive juices. It is your daily detoxifier and digestive aid
As you can tell from the above listed health benefits of ginger, it is a very economical home remedy for common ailments plus keeps the body systems toxin free and prevents diseases from happening in the first place- excellent defense from a very tasty herb.
How much & how to take it?
Take up to 3000 mg of per day in ginger capsules. Fresh grated ginger is more effective but powder will work as well in your recipes. Or you can grate 1 teaspoon ginger and make 3 cups of tea and enjoy thru the day.
If you liked this article then biggest compliment you can give is by sharing it with others and spreading wellness. Always keep in mind Ayurveda health tips along with right eating offer preventive care and promote health and wellness naturally. Be Well!
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How to Make a Simple Miracle Drink w/ Carrots Health Benefits?
Simple Recipe: One Apple, One Carrot, One Potato equal in weight to carrot, and ¼ teaspoon fresh ginger
Thoroughly wash, chop with the skin intact into pieces, and put them into the juicer or high speed blender (like Blendtec or Vitamix) and immediately drink the juice. For more refreshing taste, you can add some lime or lemon. Besides being tasteful & refreshing, carrots health benefits are numerous:
- Prevents cancer cells to develop & restrain their growth (also see Cancer Preventing herb article)
- Prevent liver, kidney, pancreas disease and it can cure ulcer as well
- Strengthen the lungs, prevent heart attack, and high blood pressure
- Strengthen the immune system
- Good for the eyesight, eliminate red and tired eyes or dry eyes
- Helps to eliminate muscle aches & pain from physical exhaustion
- Detoxify, assist bowel movement & eliminate constipation. Therefore it will make skin healthy & LOOK more radiant. It is God-sent for acne problem (also see Cleanse/Detoxify article)
- Lessen menstrual pain
- Assist Hay Fever Sufferer from Hay Fever attack
- Very effective in accelerating weight loss (also see Weight Loss article)
Highly nutritious and absorbs easily! You will notice a difference in your energy and improvement in your immune system after 2-4 weeks of usage.
How Often and When to Get Most out of Carrots Health Benefits:
For best results, drink it twice per day. Once, first thing in the morning and then before your meal (use it as an appetizer). If you choose once per day, go with the first thing in the morning.
YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE! TRY IT- IT DOES NOT COST MUCH MONEY TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND WELLNESS NATURALLY (with this simple miracle drink of carrots health benefits)!
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Turmeric Health Benefits in Preventing Cancer and How to Use?
Turmeric health benefits are numerous and is considered one the most valuable cancer preventing foods and an herbal medicine. Turmeric brings strong medicinal antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, immune enhancing, and detoxifying properties. Just about half a teaspoon (2000mg) of turmeric consumed per day in the diet regularly could eliminate DNA damage characteristic of aiding cancer development. But preventing cancer is not all; there are many other significant turmeric health benefits in the following conditions:
1. Treats skin inflammation diseases like eczema, psoriasis as it is cooling herb, removes excessive heat and cleanses liver.
2. Treats indigestion, dyspepsia, suppresses inflammation in stomach, prevents & treats ulcerations of all kinds including gastritis & colitis (Irritable Bowl Syndrome).
3. Helps tremendously with the hemorrhoids pain & skin inflammation.
4. Helps curb bleeding & other fluid excesses and pulls in prolapsed tissues so it is good for “wet” macular degeneration plus works for other inflammatory conditions in the eye.
5. Turmeric is also a blood purifier. It is anti-diabetic and will help normalize blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
6. It is a mild menstrual regulator and the best spice for woman to move stagnant blood.
7. Turmeric is also known as a respiratory herb. It reduces cough and sinus congestion when gargled or consumed in boiled milk. Again its anti inflammatory properties reduce sore throat and combined with its anti bacterial properties it can be used to treat bronchitis. It is also good for asthma.
You can not afford to be without turmeric health benefits in your diet. By the way USA is the largest importer of Turmeric from India (largest producer of Turmeric). US uses Turmeric almost exclusively to add yellow color to mustard. Please do not start consuming excessive amount of mustard in your diet. I would recommend following ways to take in with your daily routine:
Half a teaspoon (2000mg) in tea or milk
or if easier, take 1-2 organic Turmeric capsules (500mg each) after lunch & dinner
Caution: Do NOT use if pregnant or have Bile duct blockage
If you are not using turmeric in your diet then you are missing numerous turmeric health benefits. I would suggest to get some new recipes start including as part of your cancer prevention foods diet. If you liked this article then biggest compliment you can give is by sharing the wellness with others and spread this awareness. Be Well!
Rakesh Sethi
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Can Health Care Reform and Preventive Care Fix our System?
Our health care system is broken, probably an understatement. The cost we pay under this broken system is with both our health and our wallet. Are we getting our money’s worth? Perhaps yes, in disease management but not in preventive care and health management. With health care reform and preventive care included in our health plans, we can move towards managing health.
However, we live with a belief that health care system is responsible for managing our health. I believe this fundamental belief has to change.
In order for health care reform and preventive care to work, our health attitudes must shift to take on personal responsibility of managing our own health just as we manage our financial health. How we approach our health has to change?
Take the following approach:
- Take personal responsibility- you are your first health coach.
- Practice preventive care with right diet & life style suitable for your unique mind-body.
- If you are healthy you don’t need medicine. However to stay healthy, if you choose NOT to change your unhealthy diet and life style then you have NO use for medicine.
- Don’t make the problem worse by waiting and try to find a magic pill. There is none. Preventive care is the magic pill.
Unless we change our Health Attitudes, any health care reform changes we make to the health care system in United States will not work. Let me explain:
Let us suppose we have the following health care options under the health care insurance plans:
- Alternative medicine- natural preventive health care, for example Ayurveda, Acupuncture, Yoga, Meditation etc.
- Integrative approach- alternative combined with current medical model.
- Conventional medicine- current medical model
Without changing our health attitudes, we will continue to live as we live today and after becoming sick expect the medical system to “fix” us. This means we will continue to use the last option#3. Perhaps it is too late to use preventive care options 1 or 2. Note the costs are significantly less when we use options 1 & 2.
So it seems, even if we offer preventive care options under health insurance, people will not use it till we educate them to shift their health attitudes. So we need to do both: offer all 3 options under the health insurance plans and also change our health attitudes.
Let us also clarify on what is true preventive care?
Most of us think that having regular physicals, mammograms, & other check-ups is a preventive care. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG. These are just screening tools to see, if your preventive care practice is working or not. Preventive care is a step before this step.
Preventive care is selecting right foods, life style, exercising according to your unique mind-body constitution. We are all unique and one size does not fit all. So we must discover what foods & type of life style is more suitable for us. If we think of food as medicine, we perhaps will not need any other medicine.
Our current system catches people as they are just about to fall off a cliff and cost is just too high to “save” people at this juncture.
Place preventive care (included under health insurance) at the front end and we will have fewer people falling off the cliff. Savings will be tremendous to our medical system. It is our, for profit, health care system that will realize tremendous economic benefits. But I do not see them making big strides in this direction. Well, it is my health and I not going to wait for them while I pay with my health. I need to make my own health care reform by shifting my health attitudes today. This shift in personal health attitudes is an absolutely necessary step along with health care reform and preventive care to fix health care system in United States.
You can be an instrument of change. Share this article with others. This is our chance to change how we approach our health with combining true health care reform and preventive care. Contact me with your questions & feedback.
Be Well!
Rakesh Sethi
PS: First step in your health care reform and preventive care is to start Eating Right Foods as per your unique Mind-Body constitution. Learn this know-how in FREE “simple secrets to good health with right eating” mini course.
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Right Eating and Herbs Help You Lose Weight Naturally and Fast
You will discover here how to lose weight naturally and fast using natural and less expensive remedies you can practice at home. Before discussing the usual diet & exercise for losing weight, I want to introduce the term Body Constitution. This is an important intelligence that will help you understand what are your weight gain and weight loss tendencies and work with them.
You and everyone else is put together with their own unique body constitution. For our purpose, we need to discuss 3 different body constitution types but focus on the one that has the highest probability of gaining and trouble losing weight:
- One body constitution type typically light weight if gains weight can loose it quickly.
- The second body constitution typically medium weight, good muscles but does not gain weight easily.
- The third body constitution type typically large gains weight quickly in pounds but looses slowly in ounces.
It is the third body constitution type that has inherent tendency to be bigger & heavier than the other two types. The standard medical height & weight guidelines do not apply to this third body type. However, if you fall in the third type, no worries; this in itself does not place you at higher health risk. But because of the inherent body tendencies, you will need to be more vigilant about weight gain, especially as you get up in the years. Typical health risks for this body type are diabetes, high BP, and high Cholesterol.
How to Lose Weight Naturally and Fast Techniques?
Before starting, I want you to ask yourself at what weight you feel full of energy, vivacious, and good about yourself. This is the optimum weight for you and you should try to maintain yourself within + or – 4 pounds of this weight. Follow the do’s & don’t’s of lose weight naturally and fast guidelines that can be easily used at home.
1. Don’t’s- what to avoid?
- Ice cold drinks with or before meal (No sodas)
- Raw vegetables, salads etc. as a meal or in large proportions
- Heavy fried foods and red meats (do not eat anything doesn’t come out in 24 hours or less)
- Cheese, Sweets, ice cream, & sugary temptations
- Alcohol (If you must small glass of wine 1-2 times a week)
- Overeating
2. Do’s- what to eat?
- Warm cooked foods
- Oats, Barley, Quinoa, Basmati Rice, & Millets (No other grains)
- Fish, Chicken in moderation, substitute legumes (rich in protein) for meat
- All vegetables especially include Bitter Guard (Bitter Melon) 2-3 times per week. Download recipes from internet for cooking Bitter Guard. Add ginger in almost every meal to your taste. Add pinch of red pepper to your taste, if you can tolerate.
- Only sunflower seeds (avoid all other nuts)
- Berries, grapefruit, pomegranate, apples
- Use light oils like sunflower
- Drink 2-3 cups of Ginger tea per day
- Do mindful eating & listen to your body when full. Make the middle meal your biggest meal of the day.
- Keep Fast once per week with only one light meal in the middle of the day
3. Yoga Postures (optional but will additionally help you lose weight naturally and fast)
Pranayama, Sun Salutation, Most forward or backward bend poses, Cobra, Downward Dog, Upward Dog, and Shoulder Stand poses. Start slowly if you are not doing any exercises then increase frequency & intensity. If you are doing some other form of exercise, just continue that. Do exercise 3 to 4 times per week.
4. Herbal Supplements
After dinner & lunch take 1000mg of Triphala and 1000mg of Guggulu.
Imagine in 4 short weeks you would lose weight naturally and fast, improve your health, appearance, live at your suitable weight, and cleanse your body of toxins.
NOTE: After reaching your suitable weight, continue maintaining with taking Triphala but stop taking Guggulu.
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Health Is Wealth: Realign Before its Too Late
When asked, what is your most important asset? Almost everyone often responds a house, a business, a car, or some other form of property or some say a relationship. Most responses revolve around money & material possessions. But truly, when mentioned, almost everyone agrees the most important asset we have is our health. The importance placed on these material forms of assets symbolizes that we have somewhere along line forgotten our true wealth, and unconsciously, we are spending our biggest asset, health, to gain wealth.
“Health Is Wealth” Cannot Be Taken for Granted
For many of us, we take our health for granted and have forgotten about our body. Keeping this body healthy is our first and foremost responsibility. The old proverb- “Health is Wealth” is so true. A body without health cannot function at its best to produce good relationships, wealth, and happiness.
Your Body is Your Primary “Vehicle” Not Your Car
We only get this one body for a lifetime- cars, houses, and things can be replaced. Our body is an irreplaceable “vehicle” for our lifetime. Let’s take good care of its health and well being. Keep your body fit to go through life’s journey. We are not machines. Our body is warm, alive, and natural. Then what can we expect from our body when we stuff it with frozen, dead, and synthetically processed food?
Time to Shift Health Fundamentals is Now
Take a look around you. The results are more than visible in our society with increase in chronic illnesses such as obesity, diabetes, anxiety disorders, depression, and fatal illness like cancer. Is the picture becoming clear? I hope it inspires you to shift your health attitudes.
How much more evidence we need to change our health fundamentals before it is too late? It is time to look from a different perspective and return to the health basics. The fundamental change is to treat and nurture our body with love and patience.
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