Indian Super Foods - by Rujuta Diwekar

Change the way you eat.

An enlightening book. I realized the way to stay fit is to eat what your body knows and wants and not your mouths and brain tells you to. I was very insecure of my inability to adapt to the ancient-made-modern healthy foods like millets instead of rice or cereals/oats instead of breakfast and many more. Sometimes I would wonder if there is anything on earth fit for human consumption anymore!

But that is the ‘fear’ the so called scientific research and social pressure implants in you. Fear is not real, modern eating need not be real for you. Rice is my soul food, I can’t survive without it probably, because that is what I have been eating since 26 years yet hale and healthy. 

Not just rice, Rujuta talks about ghee, kokum, banana, cashew, ambadi, coconut, aliv, jackfruit and sugar. 

To summarize, eat your gene food- which you have been eating since birth, eat a complete meal- consisting carbs-proteins-fat-nutrients etc, workout regularly- need not be high intensity but regular and normal, eat local grown fruits and veggies, more the distance and time between farm and your mouth- more the loss of nutrients from foods, chuck crash diets, make food a lifestyle more than a diet of short term and many many more.  

Oh you must read the book, you will change the way you eat. And just to make sure you get full knowledge of what she is saying, also read her another book ‘don’t lose your mind, lose your weight’. Or there is a chance of misunderstanding. 

Don’t look at me like that… I’m not on any fitness goals. I like to read that is all! ;)

So happy reading and happy eating! 

The book gets 5/5.