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Spring - Mid-February - Mid May The spring is a watery season of warming temperatures. Snow melts making the rivers full and muddy. Warm temperatures encourage tender young sprouts and sweet sap to run in the vasculature of maple...

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Joyful Belly makes it easy to create and follow your Ayurvedic diet. 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 recipe, ingredient, or symptom. You ca

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Next time you are hungry, this ancient technique will help you decide how much to eat: Place your two hands together and make the shape of a bowl or cup. Limit your portion size to this volume, approximately 2/3's the size of your stomach. Ideally, you'd

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Heavy is one of the eight important healing qualities of nature in Ayurveda. Heaviness describes an important experience that our bodies need for health. This quality also frequently shows up in our bodies to communicate illness. Heavy is the opposite of

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What's Your Dosha?

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The best weight loss program will improve your relationship with your body and food. When you make choices that cause you to gain weight, your body communicates distress signs. Through Ayurveda, you discover how to listen & respond more mindfully to your

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If you like being alert in the morning, you may want to think twice about that heavy, late dinner. A heavy, late night meal will (more often than not) sit in your digestive tract throughout the night, stagnant and undigested, till the next morning.

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Ayurveda's Secret to Weight Loss Weight loss can seem like a constant fight against your own body. You can't trust your instincts, and may even feel like your own body betrayed you, leading you to weight problems. Fighting your unr

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Modern desserts have introduced a new level of sweet and gooey goodness to the food chain. Refined flours, refined sugars and corn syrup were non-existant one hundred and fifty years ago. The resulting exponential increase in consumption of sugar complete

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Hot Climate "Hot" is anything that causes an increase in temperature or causes sweating. The body radiates heat from the blood through sweat. When the weather is hot, the blood vessels on the surface of the skin

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Take the Ayurvedic approach this holiday with this 7-step healthy baking protocol that will allow you to indulge in your favorite cookies and desserts without provoking Kapha, bogging down your circulation or causing excessive mucus and weight gain.

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Your Body in Winter Early winter starts in late November and lasts through mid January. As the days grow shorter, they grow colder as well. As your body prepares for the drop in temperatures, you find yourself craving heavier foods

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Eating out at a restaurant, especially on those days where you are too tired and don't feel like cooking, can be tempting. You enjoy a hot plate of tasty food with little sweat, planning, or effort. While it may feel like a treat to be served, restaurant

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Sweet taste includes nourishing foods like carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Sweet taste doesn't necessarily mean sugary, but also includes anything that tastes nourishing (i.e. builds muscle or fat tissue). Before refined sugars, brea

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Rich foods and holiday libations may be difficult to avoid during this festive season, or anytime you gather with friends and loved ones. Food is often the centerpiece of social occasions, and an important part of relationship building. It's important to

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What is Kapha? Kapha dosha is characterized by growth of tissue. Hence it is anabolic.

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Gooey foods are slimy, smooth, and sticky. Gooey foods increase mucous and sometimes even resemble it. Sugar and all foods with a sweet taste are gooey because they create more mucous. Mucous, Yellow Sputum, & Runn

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https://www.joyfulbelly.com/Ayurveda/article/How-to-Cook-Delicious-Soups-for-Healing-Immunity/134 Links to some specific soup recipes on JB https://www.joyfulbelly.com/Ayurveda/recipes/preparation/Soup https://www.joyfulbelly.com/Ayurveda/herbal-acti

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Ayurveda described the three necessary ingredients for vitality over 5,000 years ago. Balancing these vital forces is the key to your longevity, rejuvenation, and resiliency, as well as successful, happy living. They include a healthy body (ojas), intelli

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Lunch Eat the biggest meal of the day during lunch. Lunch is the warmest time of the day when digestion is strongest. Food eaten during lunch has a chance to get digested before bedtime. If you must cheat on your diet, cheat during

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To digest food the stomach turns everything we eat into a sauce. Making sauce from dried oatmeal takes alot of juice. Where does your stomach get the juice? Quite literally the stomach sucks the juice from your blood. That's why, in Ayurveda, granola bars