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Unlock your health by adding just one yellow ingredient to your regimen
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Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-coloured into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices
As we wait around for a vaccine to solve our pandemic, the best thing we can do individually right now is wash our hands, interact cautiously and boost our immunity through good exercise and diet. One small ingredient that we can almost surreptitiously add to our diet is a bright yellow coloured one known as turmeric. Recommended by both Western medicine and Ayurvedic practices, this yellow spice has many therapeutic and healing purposes. Here are three main health benefits of turmeric to consider, followed by how to incorporate them into your diet.
Dry Turmeric contains curcuminiods, compounds which have a powerful anti-inflammatory effect to help the body fight bacteria and viruses. Curcumin is often used as a medical herb for this reason, in addition to its antioxidant, antimutagenic, antimicrobial and anticancer properties. Several ailments can be alleviated through turmeric's anti-inflammation benefit, and that includes various chronic pains, infections and degenerative eye conditions.
Turmeric also contains compounds that generate antioxidants activities that can protect your body from free radicals. Free radicals, in excess, can cause oxidative stress, which damages cells, contributing to ageing. Compounds in turmeric can effectively block out free radicals and stimulate the bodys antioxidant enzymes.
Back to that compound, curcumincurcumin is so powerful that it can increase the brains level of BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor). Brain disorders, such as depression and Alzheimer's, are linked to the decrease in the hormone. Turmeric is therefore effective in delaying and reversing many brain diseases, especially those that are age-related.
These are just some of the benefits which you can gain from Turmeric. With its extraordinary ingredients, people often add it to their daily cooking. Here are some ways you can use turmeric as an ingredient for cooking. For those who love drinking smoothies, you could blend turmeric into it to spice up your smoothie. Or you can also simmer it with coconut milk, ginger, cinnamon, and honey, AKA whats known as a turmeric latte. For rice lovers, just add this bright yellow powder into your rice to fancy up your ordinary dish. One of the common ways to use this majestic herb is by using it in soup for boosting vitamins and nutritions. Turmeric can also be roasted with vegetables or add into the scrambled egg, or tofu for a vegan scramble option.
Tatler Tip: Pepper improves the bioavailability of turmeric, making it more effective.
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