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Greetings!
Desire for green! We want to see it, we want to walk in it, we want to honor the earth by being "green", and if we want radiant health, we should eat green! The green that greets us in the spring grasses, flower stems, and early garden treats is a vibrant, luxurious, radiant green. Do your eyes just dance like mine when you see your grass bounce to new life with the unbelievably attracting shade of spring green? With the long winter this year, we are probably extremely hungry for green...and green is just right for us at this Kapha time of the year. Kapha nature is cool and wet...just right for producing spring greens.
We need eat foods that have all of the 6 tastes in Ayurveda for balanced daily nutrition. The tastes are sweet, sour, salty, pungent, astringent, and bitter. We have left the Vata season of the three S's--sweet sour and salty, and now it is time to balance by focusing more on PAB--the pungent, astringent, and bitter tastes. The bitter taste is especially healing and is often missing from our typical diet. The bitter taste is available to us in all sorts of greens--turnip, collard, swiss chard, and spinach for example. So cultivate the greens into your diet this spring and in an earth-friendly lifestyle to find balance with nature leading to personal health and health of our dear planet. Live with radiant intention and be well, Rhonda |
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Hunger-How It Works
It's right there-on the tip of your tongue. Ayurveda recognizes six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent, and astringent. Including all six tastes in every meal provides a natural guide map to proper nutrition and also provides us with the feeling of satisfaction in eating. Our taste buds identify tastes of course, but they do more, they unlock the nutritive value of food and provide an initial spark for the digestive process.
The human brain sends hunger signals when it becomes aware of the need for energy and information. As we eat, our taste buds send messages to the brain informing it if we have ingested foods that provide the energy and information we need.
The six tastes provide coded information to our nervous systems of a meal's nutritional content. If we eat foods that correspond to each of these tastes throughout the day, our meals will provide diverse nourishment that leaves us feeling satiated. If we do not have all 6 tastes in our diet, the brain receives signals calling for more food because our body's nutritional needs are not satisfied. So, we keep eating and take in too many calories even though we remain malnourished.
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Six Tastes: Yum and Ahhh
Including all 6 ta  stes in a meal offers balanced nutrition and also helps you to send and receive the signals to indicate when you are satiated---thus important for maintaining proper weight. Favor the bitter taste this spring and eat cooked greens often. They provide a natural way to detox from the winter. Here are examples of foods containing each of the six tastes: - Sweet ~ whole grains, starchy vegetables (peas, lentils, corn, potatoes), dairy, meat, chicken, fish, sugar, honey, molasses
- Sour ~ citrus fruits, berries, plums, tomatoes, pickled foods, vinegar, alcohol, cheese, and yogurt
- Salty ~ soy sauce, seaweed, salted meats, fish, and any food to which table salt has been added
- Bitter ~ bitter greens, endive, chicory, spinach, kale, romaine lettuce, leafy greens, celery, broccoli, sprouts, beets
- Pungent ~ peppers, chilies, onions, garlic, cayenne, black pepper, cloves, ginger, mustard, salsa
- Astringent ~ lentils, dried beans, green apples, grape skins, cauliflower, figs, pomegranates, tea
Travel here for more on the 6 tastes
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Leafy Greens for the Spring:
Leafy greens are rich in calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, vitamin A, vitamin K, vitamin B1, B2, and anti-oxidants. They contain nutritious juices that keep our systems hydrated and therefore also purify the subtle shrota channels. Leafy greens are rich in prana. These dynamo greens help balance pitta and kapha. If you need to balance vata eat your gree  ns sauteed in a little oil or ghee. Leafy greens contain antioxidants that help to prevent aging and disease.It is best to keep the leaf part whole when cooking. Tough stems should be sliced into bite- sized slices and cooked longer. Some Ayurveds recommend eating leafy greens every day for great skin and good health.
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Rhonda Egidio, Ph. D. is an Ayurvedic Practitioner with great passion for sharing the wisdom of Ayurveda and the simple yet effective practices that can make important upgrades to our digestion and overall radiant health. For more info visit: http://RadiantLifeAyurveda.com
Ayurveda Basics May 4 8:30-11:30am, $25, flyer, registration. From the registration page link, go to the workshops tab.
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Personal Ayurveda Assessment
Rhonda Egidio Ph.D., provides Ayurvedic assessments of primary health  concerns, diet, sleep and lifestyle and offers Ayurvedic recommendations. Check out assessment and session options. Rhonda Egidio, 269-345-2991
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You can use all parts of the dandelion for your health--the the leaves, blossoms,and the roots. It's arrival in spring is when it is most needed.
Eat dandelions to cleanse the liver and gall bladder. You can steam the leaves lightly with mint to improve digestibility, make a tea from the leaves, or eat the yellow flower.
Visit Joyful Belly for more on the charm of dandelions. Also go to their recipe search area and do a search on dandelions for fab recipes for teas and foods.
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Chard Leaves Stuffed With Rice and Herbs
OK--you can just steam your greens maybe add a little ghee--but want to try something simply spectacular? Check out this recipe from Martha Rose Shulman author of "The Very Best Recipes for Your Health"
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Ayurveda information shared here is for general educational purposes and is not intended to substitute for medical or psychological advice. Please consult with a qualified medical professional in these matters.
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