Friday, September 26, 2008

RECIPE FOR LONG & HEALTHY LIFE


When I hear of people who are relatively young , complaining of Sugar, blood pressure and such and when I hear even middle aged people complaining of prostrate
Problem in addition to the above, I suspect that there is something wrong with their diet.
And in actuality, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEIR DIET.

I am fortunate enough to have spent my childhood in a remote village in Gujarat India, where we had people who lived long.
They were people who lived off the land and had simple lifestyles.
The only fruits they had were what grew locally which were Berries, Palm Date fruits, and Bananas. Oranges were used only when someone was bed ridden. Apples were a luxury meant only for rich and were simply never available.

Their diet was simple fare of Wheat bread (Rotis), Millet bread, Lentils, fresh vegetables and thin buttermilk.

So what made them healthy and long living? Why did they not suffer from Blood pressure or Diabetes or prostrate problems?
Why they did not have heart problems or Cholesterol?

On the face of it, many factors can be said to be responsible for their happiness.
But at the bottom, I found that these people were lovers of Green/Red peppers or what we called as Mirchis or Marchas (Chillies).

My grandfather lived to see 96 summers. He never fell sick and never ever took any injection in his life. He would consume 1 tsp of fiery chilli powder every single day along with his curry or Dal.
In addition, he would take Green chillies stir fried in little oil with a dash of salt or a couple of stuffed chillies.

My sister's father in law lived to see 100 summers and he too had a habit of eating at least three to four stir fried green peppers as mentioned above with his lunch.

My wife's grandmother from father's side and her grand mother from mother's side lived to see 98 and 104 summers respectively.
They too used to consume fair amount of green peppers and red chilli powder in their daily simple meal.

I attributed their long lives to simple living without any stress all along.
But after becoming an avid or say rabid addict to Naga Jolokia aka Naga Morich, I discovered a lot of scientific proofs of Capsaicin acting as an elixir by destroying many forms of cancers, diabetes, prostrate problems, cholesterol and what not.

I don't say that green chillies or red pepper powders etc are cure all remedy. But I do believe in the fact that this small wonder called chilli has been responsible for many a good things that have happened to us because we loved to eat fiery little chillies.

There is a way in which this little wonder has to be used to derive the best out of it.
We will post the method next.

3 comments:

JJ Moneysauce said...

Looking forward to the recipe!

Nichiro said...

JJ,

Which one you want?
The stir fried Tawa one or stuffed?

I intend posting recipes from next week onwards.

Naga Jolokia Addict

James said...

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