Food Ways: An Indian's holistic perspective on nutrition & health
Authors : Powar, A.
Published Year : 2007
Pages : pp. 450
Rs.750.00
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Dr. Anna Powar is an Indian who has formed her ideas, beliefs and practice by living and working in many different cultures - the US, Turkey, most of Europe and Africa.
"Health and Nutrition" starts with a fast overview of how life evolved on earth from the first unicellular organisms up to the most complex multi cellular organism of all: the human being.
In Part I dr. Powar takes us through the biochemical complexities of enzymes, co-enzymes, the Krebs Cycle, hormones and the DNA blueprint, by talking about buses, bus lines, ring roads, traffic jams, and road maintenance. All the various vitamins are explained using these catchy metaphores.
Part II of "Health & Nutrition" illustrates the problems posed by various "nocuous agents", such as pollution, microorganisms and fast changing life styles. In this context, Minerals, Vitamins, Antioxidants are not "supplements" but vital players in the maintenance of health.Ever since human beings evolved into oxygen-burning creatures, the urgent question was how to get oxygen where it is needed & how to protect the body from the damages oxygen produces (i.e. free radicals/antioxidants). This has led medical science to re-evaluate the traditional knowledge of various peoples who have developed their own distinctive "antioxidants'. Ideally, the last part of dr. Powar's "Health & Nutrition" is devoted to the spiritual aspects of the maintenance of health.
Dr. Powar lays emphasis on striving to always keep in balance body, mind and spirit. Integrating the newer disciplines such as psychoanalysis, the older practices of yoga and meditation with sound nutrition, is a vital challenge which a contemporary nutritionist must accept in the interest of our fellow human beings
"Health and Nutrition" starts with a fast overview of how life evolved on earth from the first unicellular organisms up to the most complex multi cellular organism of all: the human being.
In Part I dr. Powar takes us through the biochemical complexities of enzymes, co-enzymes, the Krebs Cycle, hormones and the DNA blueprint, by talking about buses, bus lines, ring roads, traffic jams, and road maintenance. All the various vitamins are explained using these catchy metaphores.
Part II of "Health & Nutrition" illustrates the problems posed by various "nocuous agents", such as pollution, microorganisms and fast changing life styles. In this context, Minerals, Vitamins, Antioxidants are not "supplements" but vital players in the maintenance of health.Ever since human beings evolved into oxygen-burning creatures, the urgent question was how to get oxygen where it is needed & how to protect the body from the damages oxygen produces (i.e. free radicals/antioxidants). This has led medical science to re-evaluate the traditional knowledge of various peoples who have developed their own distinctive "antioxidants'. Ideally, the last part of dr. Powar's "Health & Nutrition" is devoted to the spiritual aspects of the maintenance of health.
Dr. Powar lays emphasis on striving to always keep in balance body, mind and spirit. Integrating the newer disciplines such as psychoanalysis, the older practices of yoga and meditation with sound nutrition, is a vital challenge which a contemporary nutritionist must accept in the interest of our fellow human beings
