As I learn more and more about the food system in the United States, the more I become afraid of it.  Doing research for a paper recently, I found out that about 70% of all packaged foods sold in America have at least some genetically engineered components.  For those of you unfamiliar with GM (genetically [...]

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Most people know Gandhi as the leading Indian freedom fighter and the man responsible for securing Indian independence. However, Gandhi was also a prolific writer and thinker. He expressed his views in many fields.

One of Gandhi’s favorite subjects was diet and nutrition. Throughout his lifetime he experimented with a variety of diets. He tried meat-eating, [...]

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One of the ways that I keep my diet balanced is by eating a portion of fermented foods daily.  Most traditional cultures include some fermented foods in their diets, because of their contribution to a healthy body and their extremely long shelf life.  Dishes and drinks, such as sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, cheese, kefir, and pickles, [...]

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Ask your average South Asian what their favorite frozen dessert is, and the answer invariably comes back as kulfi.  Kulfi is a dessert thats been made in India for hundreds of years, and comes in a variety of flavors from cardamom to pistachio to mango.  I have wonderful memories of my grandma bringing fresh batches [...]

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Sheetali pranayama is a breathing technique to reduce heat in the body.  It is often referred to as the “Cooling Breath”.  Using the cooling tendencies of the tongue, sheetali pranayama only allows cool, relaxed breaths to enter the body.  These breaths have the effect of lowering the temperature of the body, as well as cooling [...]

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How the international policies that govern the way we grow and trade food are leading to starvation, obesity, poverty, environmental pollution, and injustice.

There are millions of starving people struggling in regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We’ve all known this for years. The usual explanation is that there are simply too many people and [...]

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I just thought I’d post up a few pictures of the postures I demonstrate in the videos to make them as clear as possible.
Upright Sitting Posture
This posture is for those who have trouble sitting in any of the other postures.  Notice that I am not resting my back against the backrest, but am sitting away [...]

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