Ayurveda Health Newsletter
Issue 22 - December 2006
e-newsletter of Maharishi Ayurveda Products
- Seasonal Health Advice from Dr Donn Brennan - Balancing Kapha
- Introduction to the Doshas
- Global Health News
- Healthy Weight Management - the Ayurveda Approach
- Featured Book - Heart Health
- Food - What Makes Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Special?
- Two Ayurveda Health Articles – Eliminating Environmental Toxins and Tackling Obesity
1. Seasonal health advice from Dr Donn Brennan - Balancing Kapha
In January we move into the Kapha season. The cold, damp, heavy, dull weather increases the qualities of Kapha.
Because of this it is essential that we work to keep Kapha more balanced in the winter, especially after Christmas when we have tended to overeat and been lethargic.
READ MORE ABOUT BALANCING KAPHA
2. Silently behind the scenes: Understanding the three Doshas
Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, Ayurveda describes, are the operating principles (doshas) found everywhere in the Universe, including within the human physiology, at different times of day and during the yearly cycle of seasons.
For the human physiology, you can think of three different types of inner intelligence operating silently behind the scenes to maintain all the functions and structures of your body. READ MORE
3. Global Health News
These health and agriculture news items, collected from press reports around the world, are reported daily on the website www.globalgoodnews.com
USA: REPORT: Breast cancer rates down 7 per cent
In the US, breast cancer rates plunged an unprecedented 7 per cent in
2003, the year after millions of women stopped taking allopathic hormone
therapy when a study showed the pills raise the risk of tumours.
more
UK: STUDY: Smart children more likely to become vegetarians
A recent study published online by the British Medical Journal shows
that children with higher IQs are more likely to become vegetarians when
they mature into adults.
more
EU: RESEARCH: Research shows organic food and milk healthier
Recent EU-funded research has shown that organically grown food and
organic milk is higher in nutrition, and therefore healthier, than food
produced by non-organic methods.
more
INDIA: Organic food trend rising in Delhi
Having healthy, organic food delivered fresh to the doorstep is the
growing trend in New Delhi, India, where people are willing to pay more
for quality food to maintain their healthy lifestyles.
more
READ ALL THIS MONTH’S GOOD NEWS
4. The Ayurveda Approach - Healthy Weight Management
The Maharishi Ayurveda weight management programme emphasises bringing digestion and metabolism back to normal so that a comfortable weight is gained and maintained naturally, rather than counting calories. READ MORE
5. Featured Book – ‘Total Heart Health’
With heart health becoming an essential requirement in today’s fast-paced lifestyle, this timely book explains everything you should know about high blood pressure and heart disease, and presents a system of preventive medicine and health care called Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health.
Written in a highly readable style by one of America’s pioneering researchers, the groundbreaking results of more than 20 years and $20 million of government funded medical research are available to the public for the first time READ MORE
6. Intelligent Food - What Makes Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Special?
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture is distinguished above all else by live recitation of the Veda - the sounds of nature - by Vedic Pandits (traditional scholars), within range of the crops in the fields. READ MORE
7. Two Useful Ayurveda Health Articles – Eliminating Environmental Toxins and Tackling Obesity
Eliminating environmental toxins: Edge Life magazine reported how environmental toxins are becoming a fact of life for health, and how an Ayurveda purification therapy helps to solve the problem. READ MORE
Tackling obesity: With 15% of children in Britain and nearly a quarter of adults clinically obese, double that of a decade ago, how can Ayurveda address the problem? The India Post reports on a unique discovery READ MORE
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