Health is Wealth

What is pranayama? Pranayama is a healthy breathing exercise to enhance the vital energy. Pranayama is composed of two words, Prana and ayama. Prana means vayu, the living energy flowing in the body and ayama means control. Pranayama means controlling the process of inhalation and exhalation. Practising pranayama regularly keeps the entire body healthy. Guidliness for doing pranayama: Ø Pranayama should be practiced in empty stomach. So, early morning is the best time to do pranayama. But it can also be practiced 3 to 4 hours after having any food. Ø The place where we are going to do pranayama must be clean, calm and should have ample supply of air. It can also be open space. Doing pranayama near water body is more effective. Ø While doing pranayama, we shouldn’t sit on a bare floor. We must sit on a yoga mat or spread a blanket on the floor and sit. If you are a senior citizen and if you can’t fold your legs and sit on the floor, you can sit in a chair and do. Ø ...

Unniappam: I have tasted unniappam as temple prashadam. Later I found that making this sweet recipe is very easy. Recently I became a fan of Kuzhipaniyaram recipes and started making kuzhipaniyaram every week. This is one of my small steps in my healthy recipe journey. This unniappam is 100% safe and sweet recipe. I shared this unni appam with my neighbours and got excellent feedback.         There are different methods of making unniappam. But as I already said I always prefer simple and easy way of cooking and this method is simple and easy but very tasty. Let’s see how I made it. Also view: Wheatflour laddoo Ingredients: ·          A kuzhipaniyaram pan ·         1 cup raw rice (we get 14 nos) ·         1 cup shredded jaggery. ·         1 ripe banana ·       ...

Being depressed can make us inactive. But there are  lot of ways to keep ourselves active and overcome depression. Changing our lifestyle, physical activity and also the way of thinking helps us to come out of depression Here I have shared with you 6 simple steps that may help you to keep yourself active and stress free and also to overcome depression Also view: simple 5 healthy habits to be followed Positive thinking: Get up early morning and visualize in your mind how you want your life to be. Imagine the way of life you want. Think and imagine everything is good in your life. You are healthy and happy. Be thankful that you are healthy. Plan your day. List out the work you are going to do on that day. This habit will make you to do the work even though you feel lazy to do it. Later it becomes a habit and you will find it easier to do it every day. Exercise Regularly: After visualization, go for a walk. Slowly increase your walking time. Don’t go for 30 min...

Corriander is a leaf with good nutrients. It is very aromatic and even a small pinch of coriander leaf can change the aroma and flavor of the entire recipe. It is often available in bunch and I try to preserve it fresh. But though I follow many tricks to keep it fresh, it lasts maximum 1 week and begin to rot and will have to dispose it. So what I do is, I make coriander chutney when I came to know about its excellent nutrition benefits. I also add coriander leaves in detoxifying juices. It keeps us healthy. I made this by sauting it with onion, green chillies and coconut. This is an excellent side dish for dosa and also for porridges. I had it with rasam rice. Let’s see how I made it. Also view: Protein Dosa Ingredients (serves 2 nos) ·         2 cups of chopped coriander leaves . ·         ½ cup chopped onion. ·         4 garlic cloves ·    ...

Methi Chapathi: It is a north Indian recipe. It is easy and simple to make. I prepare this methi roti on week end days. Methi is already a healthy leafy vegetable. I have posted a methi side dish in this blog. If you want, you can check it out  here . In this methi chapathi, I have sauted the methi leaves in oil first and then mixed with wheat flour and have made the chappathi. But some people also add the leaves raw. As I sauted the leaves before adding to the wheat flour, it released nice aroma while making the chapathi .It came out very well and tasty. It is an easy way of adding leafy vegetables into our diet. We can have this methi chapathi with curd and pickle. But since it is week end, I had enough time so I paired it with aloo matar sabzi. It’s a heavy and healthy breakfast. Also View: Methileaves side dish Ingredients: ·         Methi leaves 1 cup ·         wheat flour 2 cups(my cu...