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Ayurveda and Food

In ayurveda, the ability to fully digest what we take in, absorbing what is nourishing and eliminating what is toxic, is considered the key to perfect health.

Check out the tips below to optimize your digestion and choose foods appropriate to your metabolic type.

Quick Reads

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Doshic Digestive Aids

An ayurvedic diet solution for digestion.

In Season: Rhubarb

Rhubarb has anticancer properties and can even help lower blood pressure.

In Season: Belgian Endive

Endive provides an excellent source of beta-carotene, folate, and heart-healthy potassium.

Go With the (Whole) Grain

Incorporate a few more whole grain varieties in your diet and reap the health and weight benefits.

The Cayenne Cure

Cayenne isn’t just spicy, it’s hot for health too.

Nourishing Body

Some Like it Hot

10 simple ways to strengthen digestion

In Ayurveda, the body is seen as a single integrated system in which all the parts work in tandem to create balance and health.

Nourishing Body

Ginger & Khichri

A Culture of Dairy

According to Ayurveda, dairy products, such as ghee (clarified butter) and freshly made yogurt, are important for one’s health.

Fresh Ideas for Vitality

Summer is a time of play and relaxation, when rejuvenation comes of its own accord.

Greens: The Food of Longevity

Incorporating greens into your diet provides numerous benefits including reduced risk of heart disease and cancer.

How hungry are you?

The most important principle in achieving your ideal weight is to gauge your healthiest state by personal measures, not by comparing yourself to others.

Digestive Fire of Agni

Read All About It

This section delves deep into the heart of the matter. Click below to read in-depth investigations, article features, cover stories, and the inspirational journeys of others facing this health challenge.

Hot Stuff

Peppers can fire up your health.

Nourishing Happiness

Adopting an ayurvedic diet, especially one geared towards sattvic foods, could have huge benefits on how you feel throughout the day.

Beauty From Within

Incorporate these four superfoods that feed your skin into your diet.

The Clear Skin Diet

Five foods to eat, and four to avoid, for a glowing complexion

Worth Their Salt

Here's 7 artisan varieties of salt that add flavor and a health boost to a range of mealsWorth Their Salt.

Rising to the Challenge

Thanks largely to lackluster diets and behind-the-desk lifestyles, diabetes has reached epidemic proportions.

Healing Foods—Chai for Your Dosha

Turn to Ayurvedic medicine to fight inflammation with a spiced tea that’s tailored to your body type.

Out with the Old In with the New

No need to make resolutions you’ll never keep. Instead ease into 2007 with this gentle winter cleanse that will clear out last year’s toxins and fortify your body, mind, and home for the year ahead.

Savor Your Flavors

The six-taste ticket to good health

Getting to Know You

Ayurveda’s nonjudgmental approach to identifying—and celebrating—different body and personality types can teach you how to embrace who you really are.

Start Your Day Warm and Healthy

Healthy warming breakfasts to start your day.

Food Pharmacy—A Hype-Free Look at Seven Healthy Foods

Sure they’re good for you, but here’s what you need to know before you eat them.

Seven Steps to Ideal Weight

Quantum physics tells us that when we go beyond the mask of matter, the universe is revealed to be energy and information.

Nourishing Body

Wholesome diet, healthy heart

Ask The Doctor

Everyone can use good advice. Below, we've gathered top queries and answers for you. Don't see the answer to your question? Email us and our team of experts with respond!

How to get enough antioxidants

Focus on food-based antioxidants to fight free radicals.

Detox from Chemo

An ayurvedic doctor answers this question: Over the past few years, I’ve had surgery and chemo for cancer. How can I restore my immune and hormonal systems?

Managing blood sugar levels

An ayurvedic doctor answers this question: If I don’t eat every few hours, I get lightheaded and grouchy. How can I steady my blood sugar?

An Ayurvedic Solution to Sinus Trouble

I have had a series of sinus infections, and my doctor says I have become resistant to the antibiotics used to treat the infection. How can ayurveda help?

Good Fruits for You

Ayurvedic based suggestions for healthy fruits for your body type.

Q&A with David Simon, MD-Eating Disorders

Promoting healthy eating habits at an eating disorder clinic.

Can diet reduce high blood pressure?

Questions about Ayurvedic help for high blood pressure.

Recipes

Isn't it wonderful that your food can be your "medicine"? All the recipes below include ingredients that act positively on your body for this condition. The bonus? Each one is delicious!

Web Exclusive—Cinnamon-Cacao Smoothie

Get more agave nectar in this delicious cinnamon-cacao smoothie.

Curried Chickpeas with Baby Spinach

Asthma fighting recipes using these five foods: Salmon, Spinach, Red Peppers, Strawberries, and Chickpeas.

Garlic Mustard Spinach

Chronic inflammation may lead to diseases such diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, and cancer. While the standard Western diet promotes inflammation, fruits, vegetables, beans, and other whole foods can reduce it.

Indian Spinach Soup

A healing soup to get you through the cold and flu season.

Pimentón

Using Pimentón, a smoked paprika from Spain, in a marinade.

Preserved Meyer Lemons

Lemons are delicious and sunny and high in vitamin C and versatile in the kitchen. Try this recipe for preserving meyer lemons.

Ginger Chews

Ginger chews are a tasty snack, dessert and digestion aid. Wrap them up in pretty boxes and they make a good gift too.

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