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Do you know which foods are best to eat in winter? Or are winter foods making you wonder what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? The winter foods dilemma lies in the fact that food is available to us both in and out of season. We can go to the grocery store and find fresh berries in the dead of winter . . . and root vegetables in the heat of the summer. In modern society, the idea of eating seasonally has completely fallen by the wayside. The way you eat decides not only the state of your physical...

Very broadly defined, medicine can be anything from a spice in your kitchen cabinet to the antiperspirant deodorant in your bathroom drawer. A medicine is an agent capable of producing biological responses within the body. Responses may be desirable or undesirable. When a medicine produces a desirable response, it is deemed therapeutic. In the United States, when we think of a medicine, pharmaceutical drugs come to mind. The kind that is administered by our physician at the doctor's office. And for good reason . . . in the US, we spend a large portion of our health expenditures on prescription...

The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist. It lies behind and to the left of your breast bone . . . and pumps about 6 quarts of blood 12,000 miles per day. Your heart works tirelessly, propelling life through various blood vessels, arteries and veins of the body. In Sanskrit, the word for faith is shradh. It is derived from the root hrd coming from hrdaya, meaning heart. Faith is an abstract concept. Where, physiologically, is faith? In the bones? In the spleen? With the study of Sanskrit, we learn that faith is rooted in the heart....

Headaches are no fun! The symptoms of a headache can range from dull to sharp, from debilitating to mild, from long-lasting to short lived. With the help of Ayurvedic philosophy, we look to understand the nature of the beast by classifying headaches in 3 broad categories.   Take a look at common symptoms associated with vata, pitta, and kapha type headaches along with some helpful remedies to address the underlying issue. 1. The vata-type headache Vata type headaches generally occur in the back of the head. They radiate pain through the neck and shoulders. This type of headache is likely due...