HEALTHY FOOD FOR HEALTHY MIND AND BODY!

I love food.Who does not? But more imporantly i am very picky about what i eat. I am very cautious about the chemicals that we consume daily in our food?Solution, i try to cook as healthy as i can. I avoid can or processed food. I try to add in herbs and spices in my daily cooking.

I would like to share simple tips that i do when I prepare my family's meal.Every morning my husband and i would drink fruit juice to remove toxic and excess elements from our body. The combination of fruits that I blend are green apple, celery, orange, beetroot,capsicum and cucumber. Alternative days i also drink black grapes juices as well as bittergourd which is good to remove excess sugar in our blood.

I also cook healthy food for my baby. My baby is 1 1/2 years old. Everyday when i prepare her porridge, i try to add some herbs in her meal. My mom told me that we should try to add spices and herbs so that the baby's body gets adjusted to different kind of foods. Everdyday i would add herbs like pennywort leaves also known as 'valarai' in tamil, joyweed leaves or 'ponangani' in tamil and holy basil 'tulasi' in my baby's porridge. I notice that my baby is very alert and her memory power is excellent.

I come from a conservative ceylonese background. Since when i was a toodler, good eating habits has been taught to me and my siblings.My late grandma was an avid reader on herbs and plants. She used to explain to us the importance of cooking different kind of vegetables as well benefits of spices and herbs. I have been also studying and experiencing the benefits of these herbs. This herbs has also numerous healing abilities and has the power to cure various disease. A lot of experiment is still being conducted on herbs and spices to cure incurable disease. One can also achieve to have a healthy mind free from worries and stress-free life when you consume these herbs and plants.How? These herbs have powerful elements that combines with the elements in our body and thus the chemical reaction heals the particular disease.

My siblings and i use to eat all these spices, vegetables and herbs when we were young and we now continue to introduce them to our children. We too enjoy eating these herbs.It is important for us to eat fresh healthy herbs, spices and vegetales to have a healthy mind. When i was doing my final professional degree, i used to consume lots of pennywort leaves which is also sold in the form of juices at our local indian grocery shops. I just hope everyone will also gain plenty of benefits from consuming these herbs.