Help with Joyful Belly Written by Joseph Immel, Asheville, NC

About Joyful Belly

Joyful Belly makes it easy to create and follow your Ayurvedic diet. Using a simple, one-page form, you can enter the doshas, qualities, and tastes that are in your diet. Our database creates a grocery list and personal recipe book for your specific diet.

Joyful Belly makes Ayurvedic diets easier for clients and practitioners. Joyful Belly is not only a food encyclopedia; it is more personal and has more variety than you can get in a generic cookbook. You can research any ingredient, enter your favorite home recipes for an automated Ayurvedic analysis, ask questions, and get Ayurvedic help and advice from our staff at a very low cost. Try us out!

Joyful Belly offers several subscription options: free, premium, and practitioner. Our free account includes ingredients only. Our premium account includes recipes, a diet, and a discounted personal assessment. Practitioner accounts are designed so that practitioners can create diets for their clients, which means less time explaining recipes and more time healing during a consultation. Ask your practitioner to recommend a Joyful Belly diet.

"A chef begins with a wish. Through meditation and contemplation, the wish is purified. In this way, food becomes enjoyable and healthy for body, mind, and spirit. Every new recipe is a quest. Eating is the one activity that brings every being on the planet in touch with their health and wishes every day." - Joseph

Introduction to Ayurveda

The practice of Ayurveda began in ancient India more than 5,000 years ago. It teaches that health, wealth, and happiness come from balance. The first and most important tool for balance is a good diet, which is the foundation for emotional and physical health. Ayurveda contains a very sophisticated knowledge of the effects of food, around which we've organized this website. Find out more.

Recipes, Ingredients & Spices

Ayurveda harnesses the power of food to heal. Food can make us light or heavy, dry or oily, hot or cold, etc. We call these properties of food digestive effects. Western medicine uses the nutritional effects of food, but Ayurveda goes beyond that in believing that good digestion is the first step to good nutrition. Every recipe, ingredient, and spice on Joyful Belly is keyed by digestive effect. Find out more.

About Diets on Joyful Belly

Ayurvedic diets use dosha, guna, and taste to describe the types of foods that are healthy and unhealthy for a person. Joyful Belly is designed to help newcomers to Ayurveda keep track of all these qualities. We also provide advanced practitioners with fresh, new recipes to introduce variety into their own diets. Joyful Belly makes searching for recipes, ingredients, and spices easy (for the beginner and the expert) because we can match food to your diet using the technology built into the website. Find out more.

About the search tool

The search box is a powerful research tool that can access our entire food encyclopedia. Find out why your practitioner told you to drink pomegranate juice or avoid wheat. There are multiple filters you can add to refine your search. For example: conservative eaters, filter recipes for the Western palate; adventurous, spice-loving people, filter for Indian recipes. You can use the search tool to compare ingredients and doshas side-by-side as well as use it to learn more about Ayurveda. Click here for a step-by-step guide to the Search Tool.

List of references in this article

Introduction to an Ayurvedic Diet

Recipes, Ingredients and Spices

Creating Diets on Joyful Belly

The Search Tool

 

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