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🤔 Have you ever had times in your life when you

🤔 Have you ever had times in your life when you’ve felt tired, sluggish and lacking in energy? According to Ayurveda, these problems are caused by imbalance in your digestive system. ⁠
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In Ayurveda, your digestion is compared to a real fire. Quite simply, how you look after a real fire can be applied to your digestion. If your digestive fire burns too much or too little, it will lead to imbalance.⁠
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So how do you make sure your digestion is functioning well, and you feel full of energy? In this series of posts, we will look at 8 principles to you improve your digestive health!⁠
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Principle 2: Choose Easily Digestible Foods⁠
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Have you ever tried to light a fire with wet wood or the wrong materials? Your fire probably didn’t get started! The same goes for your body. If you fill the body with very heavy and hard to digest foods, your fire will dampen and may extinguish.⁠
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For example, if you eat a meal full of fried foods and then a heavy cheesecake for dessert, this is heavy and relatively hard to digest. This is likely to dampen your digestive fire, which can lead to indigestion, poorly formed stools and general fatigue and lethargy. It can also lead to inflammation.⁠
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Symptoms of inflammation include:⁠
▪️⁠ Muscular pain anywhere in the body⁠
▪️⁠ Glandular swellings⁠
▪️⁠ Skin reactions⁠
▪️⁠ Respiratory changes⁠
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⭐ What To Do⁠
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Avoid heavy and hard to digest foods, especially in the evening when your digestive fire is naturally lower and in the summer when you need less calories.⁠
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If you are going to indulge in heavy foods then take some precautionary measures to increase the digestive fire. For example, eat some chopped raw ginger or drink a digestive aid tea, such as peppermint or ginger tea, afterwards.⁠
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Include warming spices like pepper, ginger, fresh green herbs and turmeric in your cooking. These spices will help your digestive system digest the meal.⁠
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For more information, visit the link in my linkin.bio!⁠

🤔 Have you ever had times in your life when you

🤔 Have you ever had times in your life when you’ve felt tired, sluggish and lacking in energy? According to Ayurveda, these problems are caused by imbalance in your digestive system. ⁠
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In Ayurveda, your digestion is compared to a real fire. Quite simply, how you look after a real fire can be applied to your digestion. If your digestive fire burns too much or too little, it will lead to imbalance.⁠
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So how do you make sure your digestion is functioning well, and you feel full of energy? In this series of posts, we will look at 8 principles to you improve your digestive health!⁠
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Principle 1: Understand Time Of Day And Seasonal Influence⁠
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When you light a real fire, you know what and how much to put onto it to keep it alight. Paper and cardboard burn quickly, but wood and logs burn for longer. If you put a heavy log straight onto a weak fire, the log is unlikely to burn; if you put cardboard onto a roaring fire, it will be burnt in seconds!⁠
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Our digestive fire has its own tempo: it is at medium heat in the morning, high heat at lunchtime and low heat at night.⁠
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Our digestive fire also varies by season. In summer our bodies need less calories but in winter we need more calories.⁠
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⭐ What To Do⁠
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As your digestive fire is lowest in the evening, avoid eating heavy meals with lots of calories. Instead choose a lighter meal, such as a soup, and easy to digest foods like a vegetable stir-fry or minestrone broth. You will wake up feeling more refreshed in the morning and hungry for breakfast.⁠
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Eat foods that grow in season. This helps your body naturally match the food to the level of its digestive fire.⁠
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In summer, the hotter weather and external heat means the body doesn’t need to produce as much energy to keep warm. Eat salads, lighter grains like couscous and basmati rice, as well as sweet soft fruits like plums, strawberries and peaches.⁠
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In the cold months, it is best to eat soups, stews and well-seasoned tasty foods. Butter beans and aduki beans, meat and fish, and grains, such as oats and wheat, can be enjoyed.⁠
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For more information, visit the link in my linkin.bio!⁠
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Sunshine in a bowl 🥰 These heavenly black curr

Sunshine in a bowl 🥰

These heavenly black currants have drunk up the summer sun and are bursting with sour sweet flavours.

These little gems are brimming with health benefits especially for the immune system.

I will be enjoying some fresh as that is the best way to absorb their array of health benefits. With the remaining I am going to make a new health tonic recipe with them. Will let you know how it goes.....💜💜💜

I never learned properly how to paint or draw but

I never learned properly how to paint or draw but love messing around with the children and seeing what we create.

I love how quiet children of all ages become when we become immersed in colour and leave self critique at the door.

Judgement can be such a party pooper.....

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❔ Did you know poor posture usually correlates w

❔ Did you know poor posture usually correlates with poor breathing patterns? ⁠
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Drop your shoulders, lift your chest, allow the natural curve in the spine to be present, relax the buttocks, jaw and facial muscles and just breathe.⁠
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For more information about improving your breathing technique, visit the link in my linkin.bio!⁠
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📷 Original illustration by Verywell Health

😋 Quick to Cook Lunch Recipe Idea!⁠ ⁠ Panca

😋 Quick to Cook Lunch Recipe Idea!⁠
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Pancakes are such a versatile food. They can be made with every type of grain flour, with or without eggs, eaten savoury or sweet. They are quick and easy to make, and store well too!⁠
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Ingredients:⁠
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◾ Buckwheat Pancake Recipe⁠
◾ 50g buckwheat flour⁠
◾ 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda⁠
◾ 100ml water⁠
◾ 1tbs yoghurt⁠
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◾ 50g buckwheat flour⁠
◾ 1 egg⁠
◾ 50ml water⁠
◾ Ghee for cooking⁠
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Method⁠
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1) Combine the ingredients. ⁠
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2) Heat a frying pan for a minute or two. The heating appliance should be turned up to 3/4 of its hottest setting. To test if the pan is hot enough, splash a few droplets of water onto the pan and see if they jump and fizz.⁠
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3) Add a touch of ghee to the pan, leave for a few seconds to get hot, and then pour in half a ladle of batter. Lift the pan and tip from side to side encouraging the batter to thinly cover the base of the pan. ⁠
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4) Bubbles will form in the pancake and the edges will start to lift up slightly from the base of the pan. This indicates it is ready to turn. Turn the pancake over and finish cooking it on the other side. It only takes a few moments before it is ready.⁠
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Top Tip! The eggless pancakes can be a little prone to sticking to the pan. Make sure that your pan is well seasoned (unless it is a non-stick pan) and is heated to a high temperature first before adding the ghee.⁠
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