Health Tips from Dr. Khadar Vali

No Rice, Wheat, Meat, Eggs, Milk, and Sugar? Then what to eat?? I hear this often from people.
Take Charge of your Health...Try this.
"The Alternative (Real) Food"

1. Avoid Polished Rice and Wheat including Organic.
Alternative: Go for Siridhanya (Millets) Foxtail, Little, Kodo, Barnyard and Brown Top Millets for optimal health.
Note: Soak Millets for 4 hrs before cooking and use one type of Millet continuous 2 days for effective results. Healthy people can add Finger Millet, Sorghum and Pearl Millets to the above list.
Caution: Women in post-pregnancy stage(Lactating Mothers) should not consume Foxtail Millet for a period of one year after delivery as per Dr. Khadar. Continue having rest of the Millets and post lactating period include Foxtail Millet as well.

2. Avoid RO Water(Acidic and TDS less than 20).
Alternative: Go for Tap Water Stored in Copper Vessel.
Note: Use a basic candle water filter to remove physical impurities and shift the filtered water into a copper vessel to remove chemical and biological impurities (or clay pot where the copper sheet is immersed). Store it for more than 8 hours and use it by the next day.

3. Avoid Refined Oils ( Adulterated Sunflower, Palm oil, and Canola).
Alternative: Go for Organic Cold Pressed Oils (Coconut, Sesame/Gingelly, Groundnut, Mustard and Safflower). Ensure oils are in Glass or Steel containers only and No to plastic containers. Prefer oils extracted from traditional methods(Gana or Ghani or Wooden Pressed) rather machine extracted.

4. Avoid White Sugar( Refined and Chemically Processed).
Alternative: Go for Palm Jaggery.

5. Avoid Chemically Cultivated (Fertilizers, Insecticide, and Pesticides) vegetables and fruits including seedless fruits and GMO.
Alternative: Go for Organically cultivated (Chemical Free) fruits and vegetables.
Note: If you are unable to afford or find organic then take a bowl full of tamarind water and keep the fruits and vegetables in it for 30 minutes and wash it with fresh water for use. Avoid seedless fruits although grown organically.

6. Avoid Plastic especially in storing liquids (Never Allow your kids to drink water/ milk in plastic containers, don't use plastic tiffin boxes).
Alternative: Go for Copper, Steel or Clay containers.

7. Avoid Jersey Cow Milk(A1).
Alternative: Go for Desi Cow Milk(A2)
Note: It is advised to have buttermilk, curd, butter or ghee from desi cow milk and not direct consumption of Milk.

8. Avoid coffee (3 poisons in one glass - Coffee + Milk +Sugar).
Alternative: Go for Coconut Milk or Kashaya/ Decoction. Tulasi (Holy Basil), Lemon Grass, Rosemary, Curry Leaves, Betel Leaves, Pongamia, Peepal, Bilva, Ginger, Turmeric, etc.. with Organic Jaggery or Palm Jaggery added as a sweetener.

9. Avoid Microwave ovens, Teflon(Toxic) coated non-stick cookware including Aluminium Pressure Cookers.
Alternative: Go for Iron Casting, Steel and Clay cookwares.

10. Avoid Processed Salt.
Alternative : Use Sea Salt, Rock Salt/ Himalayan Pink Salt/ Saindhava lavana.

11. Avoid Eggs and Meat.
Alternative: Go for Organically cultivated Mushrooms. If it's not Organic then Please follow the process explained in cleaning vegetables with tamarind water above.

Herbal Decoctions, and Millets are The Food Of The Future