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'How an old Indian family recipe helped my grandad recover from his illness'

Aradhana Bhandari, 27, went back to her roots in a bid to help her grandfather's health

 
 
  • 06:00, 14 NOV 2021
  • UPDATED11:00, 14 NOV 2021

https://www.mylondon.news/news/health/how-old-indian-family-recipe-22125038

Oil pulling, golden lattes, turmeric masks and yoga have taken over the western world of health and beauty - with many forgetting their true origins.

The Indian ingredients and practices that have become mainstream due to their alleged health benefits, can in fact be traced back to 4th Century south Asia.

But more recently, 27-year-old Aradhana Bhandari opened up about how these ancient ingredients were the key to helping her grandfather's health get better.

His health was the wake-up call that led her to focus on becoming healthier herself.

Aradhana has created marinades
Aradhana has created marinades (Image: MyLondon)

She told MyLondon: "My Nana (grandad) became quite ill when I was in India before the pandemic.

 

"This is when we started looking at his food, we were concerned with how we could aid his recovery through food and started making little changes.

"Thankfully he's much better now - but it made me think that we all need to look at what we eat, because health is ongoing."

Aradhana also added that as 70 per cent of our immunity is from our gut - the spices used in Indian cooking can be really testing.

She then began to focus on herself and her own health, she did this by eating raw turmeric and said she noticed a lot of changes.

After a difficult year in her personal life, she decided to create recipes that would have health benefits.

"I wanted to create something that was connected to my culture and my roots, without preservatives," she said.

Aradhana then launched her own business, Kacchi London, with a range of vegan condiments and marinades using Indian ingredients and family recipes commonly used in ayurvedic healing throughout south Asia.

These are recipes and ingredients she had grown up with.

Speaking about her influences, she said her mum, who is from India, always made sure she was in touch with her roots despite Aradhana being brought up here.

She also discussed the fact that Indian ingredients and practices have increasingly become popular in the west, yet these were things knew about due to her heritage.

She said: "Yoga is so iconically Indian, people say namaste all the time forgetting where it comes from, I realised oil pulling is also part of it - these are things that go to the west and come back to us - oil pulling is so good for sensitive teeth, it's like magic."

Though curry leaf is currently less popular in the west, Aradhana used her childhood experience to create a recipe that would make it taste good, as well as give the same benefits she was told by her mother.

"My mother always said have curry leaf as it makes your hair grow," Aradhana added.

She created a powder that can be added to any food, with one person even adding it to their Katsu curry.


 
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A book I've read

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"That the average adult spends 50 to 70 percent of their day sitting is no surprise to anyone who works in an office environment. But few realize the health consequences they are suffering as a result of modernity's increasingly sedentary lifestyle, or the effects it has had on society at large. In Get Up! , health expert James A. Levine's original scientific research shows that today's chair-based world, where we no longer use our bodies as they evolved to be used, is having negative consequences on our health, and is a leading cause of diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. Over the decades, humans have moved from a primarily active lifestyle to one that is largely sedentary, and this change has reshaped every facet of our lives—from social interaction to classroom design. Levine shows how to throw off the shackles of inertia and reverse these negative trends through simple changes in our daily lives."

Get Up!: Why Your Chair is Killing You and What You Can Do About It by [James A. Levine]

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https://www.waldenu.edu/programs/health/resource/what-your-blood-type-says-about-you

Resource Articles //

What Your Blood Type Says About You: A Fun, Educational Look at Your Health and Personality

In honor of National Blood Donor Month, enjoy a bit of science and a drop of entertainment as we explore the implications of blood type.

Ketsueki-gata. It’s a term that may once have only been familiar to phlebotomists and vampires. But since the 1930s, ketsueki-gata has become a popular means of analyzing a person’s personality based on their blood type, thanks to Japanese professor Tokeji Furukawa. While there is no scientific proof tying blood types to personality types, Furukawa’s claims have been embraced in Japanese culture—much like astrology has been accepted in the U.S.*

From a Western health science perspective, the four primary blood types are differentiated from each other based on their antigens. Antigens are found on the surface of the red blood cells and help dictate how effectively our immune system works. The connection to immunology has had health education researchers making a correlation between personal health patterns and blood types for centuries.

What Your Blood Type Says About You: A Fun, Educational Look at Your Health and Personality

Though you’re not likely to ever study the blood-related personality types in a health science degree program, it is fun to decide for yourself whether ketsueki-gata principles apply to you. Here is a quick look at the pros and cons of our own hemoglobin, according to Western medicine and ketsueki-gata.

Health Implications Associated With Blood Types*

BLOOD TYPE PROS CONS

A

Mosquitos are less attracted to you than to other blood types

20% higher change of developing stomach cancer compared with types O and B

5% increased risk of heart disease compared with type

B

Type B has 50,000 times the number of strains of friendly bacteria than A or O types 11% increased risk of heart disease than type O

AB or B women have a raised risk of developing ovarian cancer

AB

Type AB+ is the universal plasma donor 23% increased risk of heart disease compared with type O

Pregnant women are at an increased risk for developing preeclampsia

O

Type O can donate red blood cells to anyone

Lower risk for pancreatic cancer

Lower risk of dying from malaria
More likely to get ulcers

Higher risk of rupturing an Achilles tendon

Mosquitos are highly attracted to you

 

Ketsueki-Gata Personalities Associated With Blood Types*

BLOOD TYPE PROS CONS

A

Earnest, creative, sensible, reserved, patient, and responsible

Stubborn and tense

B

Passionate, active nature, creative, and strong

Selfish, irresponsible, unforgiving, and erratic

AB

Cool, controlled, rational, and adaptable

Critical, indecisive, forgetful, and irresponsible

O

Confident, self-determined, strong-willed, and intuitive

Self-centered, cold, unpredictable, and a potential workaholic

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Loosing weight is tough. After Covid illness, I lost 15 kilos. I’m now back on fasting and no sugar to shed at least 10 kilos. 

with all new trend of marketing fat people in fashion industry and confirming to folks that being fat is ok and now acceptable to society. im strongly against this and I believe we all should be fit. 

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7 hours ago, S1ngh said:

Loosing weight is tough. After Covid illness, I lost 15 kilos. I’m now back on fasting and no sugar to shed at least 10 kilos. 

with all new trend of marketing fat people in fashion industry and confirming to folks that being fat is ok and now acceptable to society. im strongly against this and I believe we all should be fit. 

Bro, remember all carbohydrates are broken down into glucose (some fruit based ones into fructose), through the digestion process. So just cutting down sugar may not make that much of a difference. You might have to cut down on carbs in general. 

Also, I don't think the good fats, like from nuts, make you fat at all (unless consumed by the balti load).    

You doing any exercise? 

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15 hours ago, dallysingh101 said:

Bro, remember all carbohydrates are broken down into glucose (some fruit based ones into fructose), through the digestion process. So just cutting down sugar may not make that much of a difference. You might have to cut down on carbs in general. 

Also, I don't think the good fats, like from nuts, make you fat at all (unless consumed by the balti load).    

You doing any exercise? 

No exercise at all. 10 hrs+ job leaves less time and no energy left for exercise. 

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/nov/14/i-used-to-hate-exercise-but-with-support-from-my-parents-i-am-now-jumping-for-joy

 

I used to hate exercise, but with support from my parents, I’m now jumping for joy

 

Minreet Kaur skipping in the park with her parents, who are both in their 70s, skipping and hula-hoopingReady for action: Minreet Kaur exercising in the park with her parents, who are both in their 70s Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer

I was turning 40 and very unfit. Now my super-healthy parents, both in their 70s, have inspired me to exercise and I love it
 
Minreet Kaur
Sun 14 Nov 2021 13.00 GMT

 

 

It’s Saturday morning and I’m standing in the middle of Osterley Park, west London, between my mum and dad, getting ready for the weekly parkrun. My dad is jogging on the spot, my mum is doing the same. I am thinking how do I get out of this? Both of them are full of energy, encouraging me to get warmed up. All I want is a chocolate and nice masala chai – my favourite spicy tea. I hear the countdown, getting nervous now, and off we go. My dad has sped ahead and with his hand he signals to me to keep up. Behind me is my mum. I can’t go anywhere, they are both watching me and I will have to finish this run stuck between them. Finally, we get to the finishing line and I’m shattered. My dad can do a 5km in 33 minutes. I can barely do it in 45. My mum and I walk and run together.

Later on my dad will encourage me to do some skipping, and Mum will get me hula-hooping. This, along with their nutritional advice, has been my daily routine for the past six months. Who needs expensive personal trainers when I can turn to Mum and Dad?

....

The Kaur regime

 I start every morning with 10 minutes of sit-ups on an empty stomach. I skip for three minutes, then have one glass of water and then, an hour later, one black coffee.

 I exercise for 30 minutes each day. I make sure at least 10 minutes of my activity increases my heart rate.

If I want to build on this, I try another 10 minutes of sit-ups before bed.

 Our family’s 80:20 ratio means that we believe 80% of keeping fit is down to a healthy diet. The remaining 20% is down to exercise.

 Wherever possible we stick to raw food – spinach, broccoli, red pepper, cauliflower, carrots – otherwise we only lightly cook things like sweet potatoes.

 I treat myself to dark chocolate but avoid milk chocolate.

We cut out frying and instead we brush food with olive or avocado oil and roast or grill it.

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