Vegetarian Guide

Coconut Water contains organic compounds possessing healthy growth promoting properties that have been known to help:

1. Keep the body cool and at the proper temperature.
2.  Orally re-hydrate your body, it is an all natural isotonic beverage.
3.  Carry nutrients and oxygen to cells.
4.  Naturally replenish your body’s fluids after exercising.
5.  Raise your metabolism.
6.  Promote weight loss.
7.  Boost your immune system.
8.  Detoxify and fight viruses.
9.  Cleanse your digestive tract.
10.  Control diabetes.
11.  Aid your body in fighting viruses that cause the flu and others.
12. Balance your PH and reduce risk of cancer.
13. Treat kidney and urethral stones.
14.  Boost poor circulation

Ladies Finger or Okra benefits

1. Okra is a rich source of many nutrients, including fiber, vitamin B6 and folic acid.
2. The superior fiber found in okra helps to stabilize blood sugar as it curbs the rate at which sugar is absorbed from the intestinal tract.
3. Okra’s mucilage not only binds cholesterol but bile acid carrying toxins dumped into it by the filtering liver.
4. The okra fibre, absorbing water and ensuring bulk in stools, help prevent constipation. Fiber in general is helpful for this but okra is one of the best, along with ground flax seed and psyllium.
5. Further contributing to the health of the intestinal tract, okra fiber (as well as flax and psyllium) has no equal among fibers for feeding the good bacteria (probiotics).
6. To retain most of okra’s nutrients and self-digesting enzymes!, it should be cooked as little as possible. Some eat it raw.

From the research of Ms. Sylvia Zook, PH.D (nutrition), University of Illinois

Indian style Chick Pea recipe substitute for meat protein and popcorn during movies.

Recipe for 4 people consumption.

Ingredients:
50 gm dry chick peas
Some curry leaves for aroma
1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
3 dried chillies
2 teaspoons cooking oil
salt to taste

Method:

Soak the chick peas for 4-5 hours before hand in water. Boil the chick peas in hot water for 30 minutes and check the texture. If the chick peas are still hard, boil the chick peas till it is soft and edible. Add in the required salt amount to add taste to the chick pea. Once the chick pea is soft and edible, drain off the hot water and leave it aside in a bowl. Heat the pan slightly and add in the 2 teaspoons cooking oil. Add in the mustard seeds,chillies and curry leaves into the pan and stir. After the ingredients have released the aroma smell, add in the chick peas and stir the ingredients. Finally after 5 minutes, the chick pea is ready to be consumed.

Suggestion:

You may add in 1 chopped big onion to add taste to the chick pea.

Healthy Vegetable Soup remedy for mild wind and bloated feelings

Recipe for 4 people consumption.

Ingredients:
2 carrots cut into round pieces
2 red tomatoes sliced
1 big onion sliced
4 garlic pieces crushed
1/4 chinese soup cabbage chopped randomly 
1 handful sliced soup ginger
1 tablespoon pounded pepper
2 teaspoons cooking oil
salt to taste
6 medium soup bowls of water

Method:

Heat the soup pan slightly and add in the 2 teaspoons cooking oil.  Fry garlic and onion till golden colour, after that, add in the ginger and tomato. After the ingredients has released the aroma smell, add in the water and stir the ingredients. Add in the carrot and let the soup to boil for 15 minutes. Then add in the chopped chinese cabbage and stir. Let it boil for 5 minutes and add the salt and pepper into the soup. Finally after 5 minutes, the soup is ready to be consumed.

Suggestion:

You may add in potatoes and chinese taufu into the vegetable soup.